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BMC to keep your medical history from cradle to grave

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to start a new health care system in civic hospitals.

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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to start a new health care system in civic hospitals. Under this system, the hospitals will maintain a database of each of their patients along with their medical histories. The system will benefit patients, as they will not be required to keep all their papers forever.

The project aims at reducing the paper work required to be done by the patients in these hospitals and ensure that information about the patients travels smoothly from one department to the other. This is essentially to ensure that the hospitals have records of all the patients from cradle to the grave.

In the first phase, the civil body has decided to implement the system at Lokmanya Tilak hospital, Sion. The system will save all the data pertaining to each patient ever visiting the hospital. The patients will thus not be required to carry a pile of papers about his or her treatment every time he or she visits the hospital. The information will be available to doctors at just one click. They will be able to treat the patients accordingly.

“After the system is put in place at Lokmanya Tilak hospital in Sion, it will be implemented in all BMC-run hospitals. As a result, all the hospitals will be connected to each other. Thus, even peripheral hospitals will have access to the details of every single patient who visits any civic hospital,” said Prakash Patil, deputy municipal commissioner (IT).

Apart from helping patients reduce paper work, the system will be able to plot the spread of diseases in case of outbreaks like that of malaria. Particular areas can then be flagged. It will be possible to implement the control measures much more quickly and much more easily.

The project also contemplates issuing health identity cards. These cards will be bar-coded. They will contain the history of the patient relating to allergies, sensitivity to drugs and other information required for effective treatment.

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