Computerised info system in district hospitals soon

The state government is planning to implement a common hospital information system in 15 district hospitals of the state in the next two months.

The project,funded by National Rural Health Mission,will reduce the waiting time for the patients considerably,thus extending better and faster healthcare facilities to them. The new system will be based on the model adopted successfully in Bahraich district hospital three years ago.

With information system in place,registration,cash deposit,sale of medicines,tests and ward management will be computerised. Each patient will be given a unique identification number which will be printed as

bar codes in the identity card given to the patient.

We have tried to replicate the Bahraich model as it is found to be successful. However,that system was slow as the registration code of the patients had to be fed manually. However,the introduction of bar coding will reduce the waiting time for the patients as well as other errors, said Dr Sanket Verma,the General Manager (Management Information System),NRHM.

The system should start functioning in the next two months, said Verma. A budget of about Rs 5 crore was sanctioned by the NRHM in the last financial year for the programme.

The system will be put in place in district hospitals of cities including Lucknow,Kanpur,Ghaziabad,Allahabad and Varanasi with the help of the Uttar Pradesh Electronic Corporation Limited (UPLC). In Lucknow alone,four district hospitals,

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including Jhalkari Bai Female Hospital,Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Hospital,Ram Manohar Lohia hospital and Balrampur Hospital,will be computerised.

In 2007,Uttar Pradesh Health System Development Project (UPHSDP ) had computerised the hospital information system of Bahraich district hospital,Bahraich. We had successfully computerised the medical store,OPD registration and various departments of the hospital. Even the doctors of the hospital had started writing the prescriptions online, said Dr Sudhir Singh,the then Chief Medical Superintendent of Bahraich hospital.

In the first phase,the departments of the hospitals will be connected with local area network. The summary of daily reports like the number of patients seen in the OPD,the patients admitted in the IPD,and the data pertaining to medical stores will be uploaded online on a daily basis. However,the patients reports will not be uploaded online,said Verma.

He said a centralised data system might be put in place in the next level of the project.

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