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In Focus

IC has developed and implemented the cloud-based e-Hospital provide multiple services to the patient and monitor them efficiently. For
N Suite of 10+ modules under digital India programme of Ministry of the citizen the e-Hospital suite, provide the interface to digitally book
Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The e-Hospital suite the appointment and view the health records, thus citizens can escape
being offered to public health facilities in Software-As-a-Service (SaaS) the long queue for appointment and report collection. I hope that im-
mode and is compliant with ecosystem of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mis- plementation of the e-Hospital Suite has effectively reduced the turn-
sion (ABDM) and integrated with PM-JAY. 700+ hospitals in 29 states/ around time for number of
UTs across the country have been onboarded on e-Hospital platform, services, enabling respon-
providing comprehensive support to the hospital administration to sive governance.

Dr. Neeta Verma
Director General, NIC

e-Hospital and it also facilitates its functioning in
any hospital without any HMIS solution. Similar-
ly, On-Boarded Hospitals, which have automated
Lab reports, can also push it to ORS using Appli-
cation Programming Interface (API) for public view
using OTP and Blood Banks can push blood type-
wise availability to ORS using API for public view.
On-boarded hospital declares Nodal Officer, who
can configure ORS as per requirement and moni-
tors using Dashboard.
As of now, 476 hospitals have been on-board-
ed to ORS and 54.5 Lakhs+ appointments have
been taken since July 2015. About 4000 appoint-
ments are taken on average using ORS.
e-BloodBank
e-BloodBank facilitates the implementation of
operations for internal workflows of blood banks.
e-BloodBank has all modules required for a blood
bank like Donor Registration, Checking of Donors,
Blood Collection, Component Preparation, Blood
Issue, Blood Transfer and Receive from other
e-Hospital Dashboard by MoHFW and MeitY Blood Banks. From successful donor screening to
optimal blood distribution in the field, e-Blood-
Online Registration System Dashboard by MoHFW and MeitY Bank application can compile diverse data into
readable reports to strengthen decision making.
e-BloodBank application also facilitates orga-
nizing the Blood Camps. Blood Banks, already
implementing e-BloodBank are integrated with
ORS for making blood availability status to pub-
lic. e-BloodBank has been implemented in 65
Blood Banks across the country and more than 2
Lakhs Blood Donors have been registered on this.
2522 Blood Camps have been arranged using the
e-BloodBank application.
Telemedicine
Telemedicine application of e-Hospital
suite is an initiative to bring health care service
to the location & time that suits patients.
The telemedicine application is integrated
with e-Hospital HMIS. During follow-up
teleconsultation, the EHR of existing patient of a
hospital helps doctor to provide better treatment.
For new patients, service to create an EHR during

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