siliconindia | | November 20188IT SECTOR & eHEALTHCARE By Dipankar Ghosh, Manager ­ IT, Rainbow Children's Medicarehen we talk about healthcare systems with IT, it faces a major challenge with medicines management and medication adherence. Medica-tion done correctly determines medication productiveness and can be the single-most effective interven-tion for improving health outcomes. In an-ticipation of growth in eHealth interventions worldwide, we explore the role of eHealth in the patients' medicines management journey in pri-mary care, focusing on personalization and intelligent monitoring for greater outcome.eHealth offers opportunities to transform every step of the patient's medicines management journey. From book-ing online appointments or consultation with a healthcare professional, decision-making, medication dispensing, career support, information acquisition and monitoring, to learning about medicines and their management in dai-ly life. It has the potential to support personalization and monitoring and thus lead to better adherence. For some of these dimensions, such as supporting decision-mak-ing and providing reminders & prompts, evidence is stronger. But for many others more rigorous research is urgently needed.Computers are not only designed for patient data cap-turing, but it also emphasizes the correct medication and the treatment. The machine required maintenance for the good functioning. This can track the records in proper and sequential manner. Hospital information system links all these sort of things from day-to-day life. Electronic Medical Record is one of the emerging technology for this field.Benefits:· The use of mobile phones and communication devices to educate consumers about preventive healthcare services.· eHealth on the other hand is the healthcare practice supported by electronic processes.· It is a software & service that manages, trans-mits, stores or records information.· It is used in the delivery of healthcare treat-ment, payment or record keeping. · Typically, eHealth applications use the in-ternet to transmit and store patient data either for a provider or payer. To take-up digital India initiative ahead, MoHFW (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare) has started various e-Gov initiatives in Healthcare sectors in India, the division is named as eHealth division. eHealth is broadly defined as the use of Information and Commu-nication Technology (ICT) in health. It will make a world of difference in India, where mobile technologies have been penetrating at rapid rate. As India has a strong pres-ence in IT, the integrated health information system serves the need of all stakeholders by contributing approximate-ly eight percent to the GDP. The main moto of develop-ing the eHealth leads to quality development in the path of health partners which helps in `Everlasting setup of technology-enabled devices with backups facility and 99.9 percent availability is the only moto to achieve'.Major Challenge & OutcomeDuring the setup of any healthcare sector, the Information Technology enabled mechanism faces many challeng-es. The most important challenge is the end user or the healthcare domain workers like consultants, management team, or financial governing bodies into the healthcare domain. The eHealthcare application designed for the healthcare system has many introduced features. Also, a lot of aspects are inbuilt into it. The application's or hard-ware's prospective thinking by the healthcare domain ex-perts does a lot of analysis on implementing them. Then, the same gets more normalized with their added and Headquartered in Hyderabad, Rainbow Children's Hospital is one of India's leading children's healthcare provider specializing in Children's Health, Women's Health, Fertility Care, and many more.WIN MY OPINIONDipankar Ghosh
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