Indian Railways employees across the country will soon be able to access their medical records on mobile phones.
This follows Indian Railways’decision to enage its telecom PSU arm RailTel to integrate employee records using a hospital management information system (HMIS) across all its health facilities.
HMIS will bring hospital management on a single architecture, prevent pilferage and make operations seamless connecting all of Indian Railways’125 health facilities and 650 polyclinics across India for improved hospital administration and patient health care.
The cloud-based software will customize clinical data according to the departments/ laboratories, and multiple hospitals to provide cross consultation, seamless interface with medical and other equipments. This will enable patients the benefit of accessing all their medical records on their mobile device.
RailTel and Ministry of Railways have signed an MOU for executing this work.
Speaking on this Railway Board, Chairman and CEO VK Yadav said” The HMIS platform will be connected to the Unique Medical Identity System. A Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is underway which will drive these technological changes be it artificial intelligence, data analytics or app based services.”
The HMIS was implemented first on South Central Railway. IR is planning a pan-India rollout in a phased manner.
Puneet Chawla, Chairman & Managing Director, RailTel, said “Traditional forms of record keeping has its own limitations and we believe that the integration of technology is the only way to achieve scale, cost efficiencies, ease of access besides other benefits.”