Mumbai's healthcare set-up to go paperless
24-Apr-15, DNA
In a relief to over half a lakh patients seeking treatment in civic hospitals, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to make its functioning paperless. Up to 54,000 patients throng the corridors of civic hospitals, dispensaries and health posts daily.
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Patient data, medical education and public health information will be available at the click of a mouse in three medical colleges (KEM, Nair, Sion), five specialty hospitals, 18 peripheral hospitals, 28 maternity homes, 161 dispensaries and 168 health posts across Mumbai.
This will help avoid repetitive drudgery for patients, who currently have to carry their records from one department to other within a hospital or between two or more hospitals or dispensaries.