Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Logica India is in talks with leading healthcare providers globally and in the country to implement its novel at-home patient monitoring solution ‘Hygieia’ as pilot initiative. The IT solution helps increase efficiency of hospitals, clinics and doctors during post-operative care, chronic disease management, geriatric prenatal and preventive healthcare.
The Logica Hygieia Health Gateway is a simple easy-to-use touch based patient centric device, and a host of wireless vital signs monitoring devices to enable 24x7 patient monitoring, interaction between doctor-patient, automated emergency handling using trigger based alarms and storing patient history.
The key objective of the pilot project is to provide the hospitals a first hand exposure with Logica Hygieia, Rakesh Aerath, Head Delivery, Telecom & Innovation, Logica India told Pharmabiz.
Indian healthcare system is scattered across clinics, hospitals, government services and private practices in the rural and urban areas. In this situation, there is a need to integrate patient information. There is also a lot that can be done using technology to connect smaller rural healthcare providers with access to better consultancy and services, he added.
In healthcare information management, the main difference between India and developed countries is in system integration. Globally, medical information is centrally stored and accessible across healthcare providers, while in India the systems are scattered at hospitals/ clinics. Also, the government has no view of this data to enable relevant policies and schemes, he informed.
With data integration and analytics being the current trends, patients too are looking to have access to healthcare at home and be connected to healthcare providers. Its parent company in the UK has a large portfolio of healthcare solutions including an e:journal which it has offered to the European Union to maintain records of patients in hospitals in the region and even enable sharing the information across other counties when required.
“One of our strategies is to tap into opportunities in India through the Global Innovation Venture Partner’ (GIVP) programme that helps identify novel partner solutions that could be taken to our clients as a joint offering with our solutions. Logica can use its expertise as a system integrator and consultant,” stated Aerath.
To identify promising companies, Logica introduced a concept of a competition to identify a promising GIVP. This year, the winner was the Bangalore-based KTwo Technology Solutions which has a product titled ‘Kshema’, a Unified Healthcare Management System, which offers remote areas access to medical consultation for hospitals.
For KTwo, the partnership with Logica will expand market opportunities. Moreover with home healthcare concepts catching up globally and with Indian patients also keen to adopt advantages of remote disease monitoring and diagnostics, we are convinced that the solution can make a far reaching impact in emerging markets, stated Aerath.