utive Director, National Health Systems, Resource Centre
IT and Healthcare go hand in hand and IT has a bright future in healthcare industry as they are well integrated in the business processes, tells Dr T. Sundararaman, utive Director, National Health Systems, Resource Centre to Elets News Network.
What challenges do you see in of adoption of IT in the healthcare industry? and how do you think these can be overcomed?
IT should be integrated into the heart of the business process, it should not appear as a separate additional layer on top of it. Nowadays everything that happens – a nurse does in a sub-centre or a doctor does in Primary Healthcare Centre (PHCs) is left untouched but now they have an additional task of after they finish the days work to enter all the data in and that data goes up into a black hole from, which they get a feedback. So it is an additional burden without any commensurate gains. There has to be a system where there is a less effort with a profound profit. A good example of this is banking. Similarly, the model should be followed in healthcare to provide better quality to the users and that is where we will see the adoption of IT in the sector.
What is the future of IT adoption in healthcare?
The healthcare IT industry is going to grow and IT will be much more integrated. In fact some of the best systems where IT is best used, you do not refer to it as IT at all. Today IT is well integrated in all the business processes and it is an achievement. In healthcare one will never have only IT achievement, it is the system that makes an achievement. IT will be used exponentially but it will transform the way healthcare is done and healthcare will also transform the way IT is done.
How can Healthcare Leaders Forum help in sharing knowledge among the industry?
It helps industry people to get a sense of what are the requirements and challenges that government is facing, what is the nature of development so that they can be more responding to that. Some of the issues that we see are the overall legal and policy framework that is needed for e-Health to grow. How does the government play stewardship role and how does the industry wants the government to play stewardship role and how does the government fulfill its own IT needs for healthcare, these interfaces are all very important for industry to understand.
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