NEW DELHI: HealthFore has been selected to provide the core Hospital Information and Management System for a new super speciality referral hospital in Calabar, the capital of the Cross River Province Nigeria. Its flagship product Magnum Infinity HIS was selected after a global search in a public-private partnership (PPP) project by International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Nigerian Government.

The mandate from the Nigerian Government to IFC was to implement a PPP model for delivering world class affordable healthcare to its Citizens starting with a referral hospital inCalabar. The hospital is expected to provide high quality advanced secondary clinical and diagnostic services and it is expected that this hospital will be a model for Nigeria and surrounding countries for viable healthcare under international PPP standards.

HealthFore participated in an international consortium to win a 10-year contract. The lead consultants are UCL Healthcare Services, and other consortium partners include HealthFore Technologies (India), Utopian Healthcare Consulting (U.S.), Cure Hospital Management Services (U.S.), Cuningham Group (U.S.), Consultants Collaborative Partnership (Nigeria), ITB Nigeria (Nigeria), and Simed International (the Netherlands). Under the 10-year project plan, the first hospital will be operational in 2015.

The technology component would be provided by HealthFore across divisions. The main frameworks being HealthFore’s Magnum Infinity Hospital Information System (HIS), Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS) and Radiology Information System (RIS). With the project going live in the year 2015, approximately 66000 patients are expected to be benefitted by it in a year.

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