HCL Infosystems Ltd., India’s Premier hardware, services and ICT Systems Integration and Distribution Company, has been chosen as a strategic technology partner by Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) Hospitals. The tie up is the result of a rigorous evaluation and a painstaking proof of concept exercise which took almost a year to come to fruition. HCL blu Enterprise Cloud’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution is being deployed across 22 NH hospitals and has been already rolled out in Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Jamshedpur and Jaipur. The other centres are in the process of being hooked up to the central system. The partnership has been signed for a period of 5 years.

This unique implementation by HCL Infosystems is also the first of its kind in India where the Hospital Information Systems (HIS) application for a hospital is completely deployed on the cloud. The solution would reduce capital and operational expenditures for NH Hospitals and will enable the hospital to provide faster access to healthcare for its patients such as facilitating faster patient registrations. The implementation will also enable hospital staff to quickly complete their administrative tasks thereby freeing their time to provide healthcare. The high performance cloud computing services are backed by a strong infrastructure backbone and HCL’s national support network to ensure business continuity. The HCL IaaS includes components from Cisco, EMC, Net App and Vmware.

Elaborating on the deployment, Harsh Chitale, CEO, HCL Infosystems said, “We would like to thank Narayana Hrudayalaya for deciding to partner with us in their transformational journey. Cloud computing has come to define the way businesses function today and keeping in line with the present times we are committed to providing the best in class Enterprise Cloud Services. Our cloud solutions are highly customized as per the needs of organizations and focuses on addressing business needs of clients. We bring the best available technologies from different partners to achieve an optimal solution for our clients.”

On the occasion Dr Devi Shetty, founder, Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals said, “We are delighted to partner with HCL Infosystems who is not only a long standing ICT company in India but also amongst leading cloud enterprise solution providers today. With this deployment we look to maximize our efficiency and scale up our services. We are sure that our HIS on cloud will be a path breaking initiative in the Indian Healthcare Industry.”

HCL Infosystem’s IaaS solution would allow NH to provide and manage the infrastructure required to support its systems in the most flexible manner. It would cater to needs like virtual servers, cloud storage network infrastructure components, Cloud security stack and configuration services and also provide 24X7 support and system monitoring. The Cloud Solution for NH will be scalable and will ensure business continuity.

HCL blu Enterprise Cloud delivers high performance cloud computing services backed by a strong infrastructure backbone and HCL’s national support network to ensure business continuity for organizations. HCL Infosystems is taking a focused approach on providing the best in class Enterprise Cloud Services which are customized as per the needs of organizations. As a Cloud System Integrator, HCL Infosystems brings to clients the best available technologies from different partners so as to achieve an optimal solution and hence are vendor and technology neutral. Some of the successful cloud deployments by blu Enterprise Cloud includes for organizations like IIM Bangalore, Continental Engines, Healthsprint, Piaggio, Family Welfare Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, Thiess India, Shell Lubricants etc among others.

Narayana Hrudayalaya group of hospitals is one of the fastest growing healthcare groups in the country. Originally founded as a specialist cardiac hospital, the NH group today operates a chain of cardiac and other multispecialty hospitals,diagnostic centres and dental care units across India. It tied up recently with Ascension Health for its prestigious overseas project in Cayman Islands. Ascension Health is a ‘not for profit’ company and is currently operating the third largest health care system in USA with over 17000 beds capacity.