Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal
Prof Sandeep Kumar, Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, in conversation with Elets News Network shares how medical professionals creates non-threatening system to make end-users or end providers feel comfortable with the software.
What is your opinion about the adoption of IT in healthcare?
There is no healthcare without IT. There are areas where IT is involved in a big way like instrumentation, systems IT in terms of hospital management, HR management, accounts management, OPD crowd management, OPD registration management, off site OPD registration, off site doctors registration, follow up and now with swipe card technology, village management, pregnancy management, assisted living, video assisted living, telemedicine, outreach through IT, GPRS system, taking pregnant women on your radar. Nowadays doctor are equipped with more IT tools.
Does healthcare personnel have readily adopted IT technology?
The Indian healthcare industry lacks information as not even 20 percent of health personnel are using information technology. Although there is awareness of IT for healthcare but the adoption or usage of IT in day today work is missing. I think the hardware is there, software are also brilliant, Indians have proven record of being excellent computer savvy, we have knowledge of English. We as mangers have to create nonthreatening system where the people who are the end-users or end providers feel comfortable with the software and the software is configured onsite to the need of the end-user or end-provider and the systems are badly managed.
According to you whats more need to be done in healthcare sector?
Most importantly from the government side, the government has a desire, keeps on instructing itself to use 4-7 percent of the GDP but government is unable to spend 1.2 percent of the GDP on healthcare because the process of spending money is a very labyrinthine process. When I have been with the government theres money in the government but to spend that money, and see that the user is benefitted or the provider is satisfied is a challenge. IT may come in a way to be able to make up this gap where government is unable to process of tendering, process of purchasing in the government are extremely complex.
Please share your experience of Healthcare Leaders Forum?
I am establishing from last three years primary, secondary, tertiary care medical institutions, which is an apex institution of national importance both in healthcare and delivering medical education, teaching, training and research. I am always open to technologies that are adaptable and there are people here from cross section of society with whom the interaction on technology is welcomed. I am getting more knowledgeable and this conference has been able to bring more intellectual people on one platform to discuss the future roadmap of the healthcare sector.
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