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Think about your experience when you get into your car in the morning. You are greeted by a dashboard of information-fuel availability, driving speed etc. In a similar way, remote patient technologies provide the analogous dashboard to a physician to monitor patient’s health information and take appropriate actions if required. It’s like holding on to what is familiar to the practitioners-pen and paper-but in a modern form by touchscreen technology. With a mobile EMR platform, it becomes easier to register patients, make appointments, viewing lab reports. For instance, if a patient suffers from some external injuries, a doctor can easily take a photograph and send it quickly to the relevant personnel for farther help. MED365 offers a stable next generation Omni-channel platform for ease-of-use to end users. This cloud-based software can be offered as an integrated package for both providers as well as to the patients. Solution can be easily integrated to the existing system to s...

Hospitals across the country face the same reoccurring problem: tracking and effectively managing high volumes of mobile medical devices. As a result significant amount of time is spent in searching for the medical equipments as well as purchasing new equipments. With a hospital managing large number of patients , it becomes useful to know to know the location of patients whether he is in room , walking about to see his visitors ,trying to access restricted areas etc .By knowing these information time spent in finding a patient  can be saved and RFID provides a viable to achieve this purpose. Reports can be generated to report the last known location of a specific tag as well as the history of all tag movements and thereby, a trace route can be obtained for that particular asset. However, as with most comparisons to other industries, healthcare seems to be slow in embracing the capabilities of this technology.When compared to the application and proliferation of RFID technologie...

Consider these situations commonly observed in hospitals: 1) What is common between infusion pumps and taxi cabs? There are hundreds in circulation, but you can never find one when you need one. 2) With large number of patients being handled everyday in hospitals, how do you keep a tab on your patients? As for example, if a patient is trying to access a restricted area, how can you find about it? There is always a crowd of things and people going around in a hospital that needs to be tracked. There are doctors, nurses, patients, and visitors who need to be kept track of. There is equipment that needs to be prevented from getting stolen. O ne of the biggest challenges in asset-intensive industries is how to effectively manage all their different types of asset. These organizations must deal with  physical assets that require ongoing maintenance and repair. Managing human resources—the most valuable asset of all—comes with its own special set of challenges Coming back to the answer t...

Suppose one day on a fine morning, you have to visit a doctor for a recurrent problem. You are waiting in queue and suddenly you realize that you did not bring the last prescription that was ordered for you by the doctor. What do you do now? One way is that you go back home and then get it ( of course, if you are successful in finding it!!) and then come back to the clinic, but by doing this you will waste precious time and possibly, you might again have to make a queue. Or you walk into the doctor’s chamber and tell him that you are not carrying your prescription with you and the doctor just shrugs it off and accesses the prescription for you from the cloud. So which option do you think is better? Second, right? And this is where the “cloud” comes in . With Private Cloud in Healthcare, it opens up the prospect of patients’ digitized health information—medical histories, scanned images, blood types, allergies etc. - accessible via secure authentication to people authorized by the pa...

After a doctor places a particular order, the patients will be required to undergo the required tests. The requisitions, henceforth mapped to a particular test, will have all the patient information automatically populated stating all the pre-requisites if required, such as fasting. There are two ways by which these tests can be done: in-house or out-house. In case of in-house tests, the results, any time on day or night, can be uploaded on a centralized server whereby the doctor will be notified as soon as the results are uploaded via SMS or Email, and the patients can be contacted and the relevant treatment process can be immediately started. In case, the tests are required to be performed outside a clinic’s premises, the results from a particular laboratory can be accessed by the doctor in clinic with the help of our cloud-based information system. This ensures a hassle-free and quick access to the examination reports as well as effective time management. Shortening the waiting tim...

How would it be to like to have the knowledge in a physician's head on the palm of his or her hands? Is it possible…? We would like to think yes.   Medical science is a science of lot of ifs and buts. Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches have to incorporate lot of variable factors like age, sex, body weight, geographical location etc and as such, the software has to be developed with locally prevalent diseases.   For example if we search for Yellow fever in our location that will be wastage of time and resources. Yet , there are diseases like Diabetes Hypertension, Heart diseases found across the world with almost equal frequency and diagnostic and therapeutic protocols have been laid out by medical professional bodies. These protocols give uniformity of treatment across the world.  With our Quick Order feature we aim to provide doctors with a procedure process tool.  “If a patient suffering from syndromes of leukemia, the following procedure options will be disp...

In this blog we will see, as part of our Healthcare Initiative, how we endeavor to assist in the process of delivering quality and safe care, thereby improving the workflow as well as efficiency at hospitals. Electronic prescription or e-prescribing (e-Rx)  is the computer-based electronic generation, transmission and filling of a medical prescription , taking the place of paper and faxed prescriptions. It electronically accesses patient’s health information such as medical history, drug allergies etc . With E-Prescription it is possible for the provider to administer the use of generics and other low cost medications. E-prescribing applications have the potential to check the databases for appropriate prescribing guidelines, the patient’s complete medication profile for drug interactions, and the patient’s electronic medical record for disease contradictions. This  allows the provider to review the  patient's past  medical records while he ...