Mediciti Hospitals in collaboration with Hewlett Packard (HP) and SHARE India, an NGO, launched an innovative fully integrated cloud based e-health centre at Aliabad village near Hyderabad.

With an aim to provide affordable and easily accessible healthcare facilities in rural areas of Andhra Pradesh, Mediciti/SHARE and technology major Hewlett Packard (HP) in collaboration with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), have opened a fully integrated cloud based e-health centre (eHC) in Aliabad village in Rangareddy district.

This eHC centre is fourth of its kind of centres established in India. Located 45 kilometers from Hyderabad, the centre is expected to cater the healthcare needs of the rural areas. Other three centres were established elsewhere in India include Chausala in Haryana, Myinapur in Uttar Pradesh and Jamshedpur in Jharkhand.

With the launch of this e-health centre, it is expected to provide healthcare services to remote areas which would benefit approximately 20,000 people across 10 villages in the district. Diagnosis and treatment will be delivered by doctors seated at a studio in Mediciti hospital at Ghanpur village in Medchal mandal in Rangaraddey.

Partnering in this innovative initiative, HP has designed the fully integrated cloud technology and deployed its solution at the e-health centre. The solution will connect the medical equipment deployment at the e-health centre with an e-health cloud collect basic patient health data to enable better medical diagnosis. The e-health centre will also provide remote consultations using built in video conferencing options tapping into specialist experts worldwide.

Using HP’s cloud-enabled healthcare solutions, now it is possible to  provide health services for local people. Millions of people in India have no access to healthcare in rural areas. More than 65 per cent of the population lives in rural areas, while only two per cent of India’s doctors are located there. About 89 per cent of rural patients have to travel an average of eight kilometers to access basic medical treatment.

Paul Ellingstad, HP corporate affairs said, “The e-health centre in Aliabad is HP’s fourth centre in India and together with our partners support we are rapidly scaling up our initiative of affordable and easy accessible healthcare in the rural areas.”

Dr Krishnaiah, CEO, Mediciti Institute of Medical Sciences said, “Providing access to quality healthcare in rural areas is the main goal and Aliabad e-health centre is one step forward in this direction. We thank Hewlett Packard and CSIR for providing innovative technology to support our initiatives.”

The eHC health cloud integrates the process of healthcare delivery and health data collection. This centralized patient information sets the platform for data-driven research such as disease surveillance by tracking disease patterns and risk factors. The health profile of the region as well as monitoring of the daily usage of the eHC is enabled by an integrated eHC dashboard, providing comprehensive yet digestible analytics that will help health policy makers.