Sankara Eye Foundation is now equipped with SERVIS (Sankara Electronic Remote Vision Information System) which will save cases in real time community level data on blindness and vision impairment.

The android based application SERVIS is designed to capture live village level data for planning necessary interventions aimed at control of blindness. This was launched Dr. R.V. Ramani Founder and Managing Trustee, Sankara Eye Foundation along with Jomy Lawrence, manager, Vodafone Business Services, Chennai at Sankara Eye Hospital, Coimbatore.

‘A one of its kind program, SERVIS will make the process of outreach paperless as Sankara’s team of field workers, optometrists, ophthalmologists and paramedics will use tablets to record patient specific data during household surveys and eye camps, providing instant advisories and promoting preventive eye care awareness.’ said, Dr. Imtiaz Ahmed, DGM, Community Outreach.

‘Being the first eye care provider to have been able to automate hospital level data through online EMR country wide, we decided to harness technology to integrate community level information as well. What’s more is that the information is geo-tagged GIS and GPS enabled, gathers data in real time information on blinding disease patterns and eye care utilization. This enables prompt intervention and planning of programs so that no one needlessly goes blind. Two years of extensive efforts have perfected it to meet the highest expectation of a responsive surveillance and information system.’ said Bharath Balasubramaniam, president, Sankara Eye Hospital.

SERVIS bagged the Mobile for Good awards 2014, a flagship initiative of Vodafone India which supports emerging mobile solutions with transformational impact on the society.

Sankara Eye Hospitals part of the Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust founded in 1977 at Coimbatore. A premier chain of tertiary super-specialty eye care hospitals in the country the facility offers entire spectrum of eye diseases. It is center of excellence for cornea, retina, ocular cancers (retinoblastomas), glaucoma, paediatric ophthalmology, cataracts, oculoplasty and lasik. Additionally it is one of the few hospitals which provides services for low vision therapy, vision rehabilitation and eye bank. It has a chain of 13 eye hospitals supported with 200 doctors, 600 paramedical professionals, 275 support staff and total bed strength of 1800. It has treated and performed over 1.2 million free eye care operations. It performs 500 eye care operations daily.