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IT majors eye Rs 5k-crore govt hospital contracts
BANGALORE: Here’s a goldmine of opportunities waiting to be tapped. The Indian defence sector, along with the government, has started inviting bids for the modernisation of its hospitals. Contracts worth Rs 5,000 crore are up for grabs over the next few years, said a person familiar with the development .
And in the race to clinch these contracts are Wipro, Infosys, TCS, HCL, HP, IBM, SAP, Perot System and GE Healthcare. With the Indian government and the defence sector keen on slashing costs and ensuring more efficacy of the installed e-systems , more bids are being floated by the governments of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Karnataka. The Indian Railways, IAF, Indian Navy and Army are also in the process of upgrading their e-systems , sources said.
Wipro Infotech has already bagged the e-health contract of the Indian Navy to upgrade technology in the hospital patient administration wing into an integrated hospital information system. “We see a huge opportunity in government hospitals, especially in rural areas. Wipro HCIT (health care IT) is growing at 100% y-o-y . Over 100 installations have been completed so far,” Wipro Infotech healthcare IT general manager Harbir Singh Sawhney has said. The task they had taken up involved creating various databases and linking them via internet.
“We are developing new products based on cutting-edge technology, which will be Web-enabled , have multiple databases and have radio-frequency identification (RFID),” he said.
Companies such as iSoft provides healthcare IT solutions for more than two-thirds of UK’s National Health Services Trusts.
Experts like Anurag Dubey, programme manager for healthcare IT & healthcare delivery practice at research firm Frost&Sullivan , said there is more scope for e- health projects, which will give Indian IT companies opportunities to provide applications, implement them and maintain the services and networking.
Under these e-health projects, general practitioners can access the database of hospitals to get clinical details of a particular patient. This will help patients get treated at any clinic in the country without the need to re-enter data.
This is what S Govind, iSoft’s managing director, has to say: “We have the expertise to establish a personal health record, the data of which can be shared across primary, secondary and tertiary care organisations. This referral process will help in optimising resources.”
Source:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/ites/IT-majors-eye-Rs-5k-crore-govt
And in the race to clinch these contracts are Wipro, Infosys, TCS, HCL, HP, IBM, SAP, Perot System and GE Healthcare. With the Indian government and the defence sector keen on slashing costs and ensuring more efficacy of the installed e-systems , more bids are being floated by the governments of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Karnataka. The Indian Railways, IAF, Indian Navy and Army are also in the process of upgrading their e-systems , sources said.
Wipro Infotech has already bagged the e-health contract of the Indian Navy to upgrade technology in the hospital patient administration wing into an integrated hospital information system. “We see a huge opportunity in government hospitals, especially in rural areas. Wipro HCIT (health care IT) is growing at 100% y-o-y . Over 100 installations have been completed so far,” Wipro Infotech healthcare IT general manager Harbir Singh Sawhney has said. The task they had taken up involved creating various databases and linking them via internet.
“We are developing new products based on cutting-edge technology, which will be Web-enabled , have multiple databases and have radio-frequency identification (RFID),” he said.
Companies such as iSoft provides healthcare IT solutions for more than two-thirds of UK’s National Health Services Trusts.
Experts like Anurag Dubey, programme manager for healthcare IT & healthcare delivery practice at research firm Frost&Sullivan , said there is more scope for e- health projects, which will give Indian IT companies opportunities to provide applications, implement them and maintain the services and networking.
Under these e-health projects, general practitioners can access the database of hospitals to get clinical details of a particular patient. This will help patients get treated at any clinic in the country without the need to re-enter data.
This is what S Govind, iSoft’s managing director, has to say: “We have the expertise to establish a personal health record, the data of which can be shared across primary, secondary and tertiary care organisations. This referral process will help in optimising resources.”
Source:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/ites/IT-majors-eye-Rs-5k-crore-govt
