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Healthcare IT

Indian doctors get remote access to patient records

By Amelia Kwok | 17 November 2008

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Mohali, has developed an internet-based software solution, e-sanjeevani, to provide an interface between doctors and patients.

C-DAC is an institute under the government of India’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and caters to the training, consultancy, design and product development needs of the IT industry and allied sectors.

E-sanjeevani is a web-based software, where a doctor can log on to the site just like an email account — with a specific user ID and password — and access the patients’ database and transfer medical records electronically to other consultants. Doctors can chat among themselves to discuss a particular case. Patients, too, can have their specific ID and log on individually to have their medical update and online consultation with doctors.

Having successfully tested the pilot project, the centre has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with six states to share the database of patients through the Common Services Centres (CSC).

“E-sanjeevani is an upgraded version of our existing telemedicine application, Sanjeevani. It is a result of core resource and development effort in the area of medical informatics, healthcare, telemedicine and e-health. We signed an MoU in September and the software will be used in states like Bihar,Tamil Nadu, Orissa, West Bengal and Assam at the CSCs, where the database will be stored for the use by doctors,” said Dr J S Bhatia, Director, C-DAC Mohali.

“E-sanjeevani is user-friendly as it has comprehensive electronic medical recorder with unique patient IDs. Online diagnostic test reports are available to the doctors, and expert tele-consultation among leading healthcare institutions and professionals in various specialties is possible,” added Bhatia.

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