In a nation like India, where population multiplies in leaps and bounds, delivery of healthcare involves numerous challenges and barriers. This is not just because of the lack of infrastructure and skilled resources but also because of the unavailability of the patient’s medical records to provide the right treatment at the right time. Though, India being a strong and preferred destinatio
In a nation like India, where population multiplies in leaps and bounds, delivery of healthcare involves numerous challenges and barriers. This is not just because of the lack of infrastructure and skilled resources but also because of the unavailability of the patient’s medical records to provide the right treatment at the right time. Though, India being a strong and preferred destination in Information Technology, the penetration of IT into healthcare sector is much below the supposed mark. Whereas in countries like Australia, Canada, US and many European countries, most of the hospitals and group-practitioners are using integrated healthcare solutions like Hospital Information Systems (HIS), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Electronic Health Records (EHR) etc. to substantially reduce medical errors and treatment costs besides focusing on the quality of healthcare delivered to the patients.
Although there are numerous benefits associated when adopted to healthcare IT systems, the acceptance rate is not high in the Indian healthcare sector both in the public and private sectors. There are many reasons for slow adoption rates, but the major reasons include, the bare minimum spending by hospitals, lack of technical expertise and lack of common standards. Apart from the above, the lack of awareness about the benefits associated in adapting to these systems both among the healthcare providers and people is also one of the important reasons.
Realizing the fact that Internet along with recent innovations in open source technologies can be combined to deliver a cost effective comprehensive healthcare solution, the Hyderabad based company eMedReport has launched an integrated web based solution eMedReport.com. This cost effective and feature-rich solution ensures flawless communication among all the healthcare providers and patients for exchange of health information.
The solution ensures unlimited and secured storage of patient’s health records, along with other benefits such as sending prescriptions to pharmacies and test requests to pathological labs and diagnostic centers. Patients can create a free health account which would help them access their health records, prescriptions, test reports and radiological images “Anywhere-Anytime”. Patients can also search for doctors in a specific area and request appointments which would save time and money to a large extent. All the above features ensure that the patient gets the right treatment at the right time- All this happens with a single click at eMedReport.com
Doctors can manage their calendar, view patient appointments, previous health records, review notes, prescriptions and test reports which would help them in providing a better patient care. In addition, doctors can also refer a patient to other doctor for a second opinion with all the previous health records of the patient. All this critical information is stored in a secured doctor’s account that no one else has access to.
eMedReport also offers SMS alerts and system reminders to patients, doctors and other healthcare providers about appointments, prescriptions, test requests and test reports.
eMedReport offers inexpensive subscriptions for the web solution for a period of 3 months, 6 months and 1 year.
Please logon to www.emedreport.com or send an email to info@emedireport.com
