Delhi cabinet approves Rs 139 crore budget for healthcare system
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that all the hospitals of Delhi will be connected to the Health Information Management System (HIMS).
The Delhi cabinet has approved a budget of over Rs 139 crore for its health management system. The innovative and transparent healthcare system will help in maintaining a database of the medical records of every resident in Delhi on a cloud. This cloud-based data will make it easy for doctors to access the medical records of the patients. It is planned that in the first phase, all the government hospitals in Delhi will be linked to cloud-based system. Later on, private hospitals will also be included. The government said that the system will enable facial recognition and biometric identification of patients
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that all the hospitals of Delhi will be connected to the Health Information Management System (HIMS). Through the HIMS portal, all the medical services will be brought under one platform. This will give information on how many beds are vacant in a hospital, the status of medicine stocks and staffers, number of ventilators and any other information about medical infrastructure.
“One won’t need to stand in queues in hospitals anymore, you will be able to get appointments on the phone itself and go as per your convenience,” said Kejriwal.
Benefits
HIMS will slot doctors’ appointments, generate e-prescriptions, dispense medicines, connect patients with an ambulance, and issue disability certificates.
Doctors will be able to use facilities like decision support systems for diagnosis and treatment, record voice-to-text or digital pen notes for case reports, and have mandatory checklists in the operation theatre.
It will also integrate the back-end logistics, for example, availability of beds, medicines, and other consumables. The system will also provide support for community outreach programmes.
Under the scheme, all Delhi residents will get a QR-code enabled health card (as per voter ID and population registry). The collected data will be helpful in family mapping for government schemes and programmes.
NEC Corporation India Private Limited has been assigned this project.