The term ‘cord blood’ implies to blood that remains in the umbilical cord after the baby is born. Doctors suggest preserving the ‘cord blood’ as it contains precious life-saving stem cells that can assist in the treatment of numerous diseases….
The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is an account of patient health information generated during patient visits to the hospital. A typical EMR includes information like patient demographics, progress notes, problems, medicine, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data…
Cloud Computing is all rage today and all the business analysts and CEOs agree. For those who thought the concept is new, here is a shocker! Cloud has actually been around from time users started creating free personal email addresses. Google…
We do not inherit the earth from ancestors, we borrow it from our children, goes a Chinese proverb. And, rightly so! While the rate of deforestation has taken a peek, scientists across the world have raised their alarm about…
Revenue inflow, scalability of business and better service delivery are top business goals that hospitals intend to achieve today. Moreover, a hospital running its operations manually may find it difficult to scale their business or improve patient care without…
Government hospitals have to meet high patient density and reliable service. The hospital hire more admin staff to manage registration, billing, pharmacy, nursing and numerous other functions or do with. However, scarcity of budgets and dearth of on roll staff…
While HIS made inroads in developing markets only recently, presence of IT infrastructure in developed market date back to a couple of decades. Naturally, the challenges to adoption of HIS are different on both sides. While implementing in developing markets such…
DR or Disease Registry is fast emerging as an intelligent business tool in the healthcare setting. Disease Registry represents a unique and powerful model for the collection of observational or epidemiological data from a defined patient population on a specific…
CDSS or Clinical decision support system has garnered a lot of attention from the medical fraternity over the recent years, some of them even calling it an intelligent way of looking at the future of healthcare. In medical terms…
A decade ago, the concept of imparting healthcare facilities to patients in remote villages through electronic information and communication technology seemed like an ambitious projects. Hospitals like Arvind Eye and others pioneered the medical camps to attract more tertiary…
