Electronics manufacturer HP has teamed up with India healthcare provider Mediciti and research group Council of Scientific and Industrial Research to open the fourth cloud-based e-health center in the Andhra Pradesh region of India. According to news released by Enterprise Innovation, the new center will open in the city of Alaibad and joins three other similar operations in Chausala, Myinapur, and Jamshedpur in the regions of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand, respectively. The newest center will reach approximately 20,000 people in 10 villages in the area.
HP describes each e-health center as a “powerful, cloud-enabled, healthcare solution housed in a standard shipping container which can be quickly transported to remote areas of the country by air, rail or land.” They are easily movable and can provide many healthcare services through a combination of trained staff and cloud-based medical equipment.
At the sites, physicians make use of diagnostic equipment that can access cloud data. They are also able to videoconference with other medical professionals who can give them second opinions or help them to obtain medicine for any individual patient. Skilled doctors may not always be available in the remote regions where the e-health centers are located, so any paramedic acting as staff can sync his or her knowledge with physicians who normally reside in larger cities.
HP created the diagnostic equipment that medical professionals use in the remote centers. The equipment is not only useful for diagnosing current ailments, it can also help patients who seek help during repeated visits because the equipment uploads each patient's demographics, medical history, and diagnostics into a centralized database. So, if the same patient visits any e-health center, physicians will have their personalized information at hand.
Doctors in MediCiti Hospital at Ghanpur Village in Medchal Mandal will provide patients with diagnosis and treatment through the video conferencing utilities. They will be helping people access basic healthcare who have perhaps never had it before. The first site in Chausala saw greater than 4,000 patients visit its center within the first 100 days of its opening. This is a village with only about 10,000 people.
The sites have won a number of healthcare and IT-related awards. As more centers open up, they are bound to win even more accolades and, even better, treat the ailments of people who before may have had no other options.
Edited by
Cassandra Tucker
