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Railways Rolls Out Hospital Management Information System In Over 150 Health Facilities
- The HMIS solution is going to cover the entire gamut of clinical care as well as hospital administration with around 20 modules that are relevant to Railway hospitals.
- In order to empower the medical beneficiaries, a mobile app has also been developed, which enables patients to access their Electronic Medical Record (EMR) from anywhere.
A Railway hospital
Bringing the entire Railway health system on a single platform to provide faster, seamless and hassle free healthcare, RailTel has been entrusted with the task of implementing Pan India Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) at 129 Railway hospitals and 586 health units across the country.
HMIS has already been deployed over 156 health facilities across Indian Railways. Further accelerated deployment over balanced health facilities will be done in 2021.
Out of a total 11,76,300 railway employees, registered employee beneficiaries are 11,24,058.
Total HMIS employee cards generated are 10,33,143. Out of a total 16,52,082 pensioners of Railways, registered pensioners beneficiaries are 4,83,592 in number.
Total HMIS pensioners beneficiaries cards generated are 3,75,440.
Employees have an average of 3-4 dependents and pensioners have 2-3 dependents.
The HMIS solution is going to cover the entire gamut of clinical care as well as hospital administration with around 20 modules that are relevant to Railway hospitals.
In order to empower the medical beneficiaries, a mobile app has also been developed, which enables patients to access their Electronic Medical Record (EMR) from anywhere.
Features like tele-consultation, lab report access, medicines disbursed to patients have also been provided through this app.
The feature of self-registration is also available on this app.
This system is fully integrable with the National Digital health Mission programme of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The HMIS has been synchronised with various other digital initiatives of Indian Railways like Unique Medical ID (UMID), IPASS and ARPAN etc and is capable of further such integrations as per need.
Digitisation of health data which is accessible through a unique medical ID (UMID) of Railway healthcare beneficiaries is going to make the healthcare services hassle free and transparent.
Patients can take OPD appointments by scanning the QR code through HMIS app — This will bring improvement in patient care and patient services to approximately 10 million Railway health beneficiaries.
