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group (HFICs), users need to be whitelisted. This is
Innovations Applied done by the District Nodal Officers / Chief Medical
IoT-based Monitoring of PSA Plants Officers by first updating the Health Facility xyCare - Oxygen Management
Every PSA Oxygen Generation Plant has a pre- Master file and adding the HFIC details through OInformation System has been
fitted IoT device which transfers data related to the Health Facility Management, available at the developed by NIC in difficult times during
the Covid19 pandemic with innovative
the functioning of the plant to central server at a OxyCare portal. Later, the prospective user can features like secure QR code which can
fixed time interval. The photographs of installed check his or her details by clicking on the Health be read by the specific mobile app used
plants and its GPS locations are also captured and Facility link on the web portal (https://oxycare. by Health Facility Users. NIC has done
made available along with relevant parameters to gov.in). excellent work to enable Ministry to fast
monitoring authorities as shown in the Figure 9.3.
Benefits track the supply
OxyCare portal has proved to be quite useful and availability
OxyCare Mobile App to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in of oxygen in rural
OxyCare mobile app supplements the OxyCare allocation, supply, installation, monitoring and and urban health
portal and is used by Health Facility In-charge maintenance of oxygen equipment in Health facilities across
(HFIC) across various health facilities in the Facilities pan country. Some of these benefits are India.
country to record the receipt of various medical listed below
equipment. The app also provides a feature to add
functioning details of oxygen equipments, report • Single system for tracking supply, installation
problems (if any), and add mock drill details for of multiple oxygen equipment
the PSA Oxygen Plant. • Tracking of supply chain from manufacturers’ Sunil Kumar
As the app is being used by an exclusive user location Dy. Director General & HoG
NIC Health Projects

• Real time IoT-based monitoring of devices,

mock drills
• GIS-based plotting of installed devices along
with photographs
• Futuristic platform for meeting similar
requirements / exigencies during any pandemic
• Online problem reporting and its resolution
using OxyCare Engineer mobile app
• Role-based dashboard for device delivery/

operational status for each level
• System generated email alerts / status report
to State / Ministry administrators
Award
OxyCare portal has been conferred upon the
Award of Excellence by CSI SIG eGovernance
Awards 2021 under the Project Category. (Refer
Fig. 9.4) It is implemented in all 36 States / UTs
covering more than 2 lakh health facilities with
Fig. 9.3: IoT-based data transfer and meters for pressure, purity and flow of PSA Oxygen Generation Plants over 3 lakh oxygen equipments.
Fig. 9.4: MoHFW and NIC teams receive the CSI eGovernance Award of Excellence 2022 Way Forward
OxyCare portal has achieved the target of
providing various oxygen equipment in health
facilities across the country. Technologies like
Secure QR code generation and scanning and IoT-
based monitoring of the working of PSA Oxygen
plants have been the enablers. The portal is being
enhanced to meet any kind of exigency during
such pandemics in the future.

Contact for more details
State Informatics Officer
NIC Himachal Pradesh State Centre
Shimla, Himachal Pradesh - 171002
Email: sio-hp@nic.in, Phone: 0177-2624045

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