Dr.-Ravi-Gupta

The increased spending on healthcare IT has been doing the rounds lately.Ravi-Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd. Gartner Inc has come up with a new report that states that healthcare  roviders
in India will be spending 57 billion rupees on IT products and services in 2013. This indicates an increase of seven percent over 2012 revenue of 53 billion rupees. This forecast includes spending by healthcare providers (includes hospitals and hospital systems, as well as ambulatory service and physicians practices) on internal IT (including personnel), hardware, software, external IT services and telecommunications. Indian healthcare policymakers have already started recommending Aadhaar Cards to be linked with health cards. This would be a big and right move. A health card is meant to provide a seamless access to healthcare benefits to the citizens, and if the healthcare gets integrated with Aadhaar, then it would  make it easier for the hospitals to identify patients who deserve to have subsidised treatments. The merging of health card with Aadhaar will definitely ensure better disbursal of benefits like food, shelter, cloth and healthcare. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Trauma Centre has made  uccessful shift from preparing manual Medico-Legal Cases (MLCs) to electronic MLCs. It has become the first hospital to go digital. Since the hospital mostly gets accident cases, it registers about 30,000 MLCs in a year and doctors end up filling around 80 forms a day. Also there is news that developers are exploring wearable devices like wristbands and sensors that use bluetooth to upload data related to heart rate, temperature, and blood glucose to a cloud repository The April Edition of eHEALTH is as much about the existing facilities in Health IT, as it is about the newer innovations that can be expected. The cover story which is on Innovation in Health IT has included a gamut of experts opinion. We have key stakeholders like Keshav Desiraju, Secretary Health & Family Welfare; Anuradha Gupta, Additional Secretary (AS) & Managing Director (MD), National Rural Healthcare Mission (NRHM), expressing their opinion on the subject. You cant think of Health IT without taking the newer developments in the field of communications into account. We have also done coverage of related areas like Telemedicine, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Radio Information System (RIS), etc. You will like the interview of Biocon Founder, Kiran Shaw Majumdar. She has shed light on the latest advances that are being made by the biotech industry. The advances in biotech have the potential of revolutionizing healthcare systems. So this is an area to watch out for. As usual I look forward to your feedback on this issue.

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