Healthcare segment today is witnessing a move from point solutions to an enterprise-wide solution : Prasenjit Lahiri, IT

What is your opinion regarding current state of IT adoption in public and private healthcare facilities in India? How the domestic healthcare industry is fairing in terms of elevating their efficiency through IT implementation?

IT adoption in healthcare facilities is seeing an upswing with more and more companies investing in enterprise-wide solutions. The first phase of IT enablement in these organizations was with a view to enable operations and hence was more in terms of point solutions. However in the recent years organizations are looking at IT solutions that can enable their growth engine both from planning and execution of the growth initiatives as well as providing better and consistent care on a larger scale as the organization sets up more and more units across the country.

So we have organizations evincing interest in IT solutions like a integrated Hospital Information System which not only automates but also optimizes and standardizes transaction and clinical processes across multiple locations based on industry best practices; Healthcare providers are also looking at integrating patient records in a intra and inter hospital scenario through browser based EMR solutions which further enhances their promise of highest quality of care across the chain. Integration of IT solutions and lab equipments is another area of interest for the segment.

IT adoption in healthcare facilities is seeing an upswing

To summarize, today the healthcare segment is witnessing a move from point solutions to a approach where organizations look at a integrated solution including software applications, infrastructure products and services and maintenance of the same.

Although large corporate healthcare providers have gone ahead in automating their operations, most government hospitals are still lacking basic IT facilities. Do you attribute this gap to financial constraints of government hospitals or is it due to a lack of understanding and/or initiative of decision-makers in the government?

There is a realization of the criticality of IT enablement in the public health space. So a large number of projects are in the anvil. However the execution and rollout of these projects needs a strong focus in the coming years.

Wipro has been involved in the execution of a integrated HIS for six hospitals of Municipal Corporation of Delhi and has enabled all the functions of each hospital in the last 12 months. Currently we are integrating patient records across these hospitals thus enabling uniform records at citizen level.

Often the primary concern for small and medium service providers pertains to relatively longer time frame for realising RoI on IT investment (primarily due to their smaller scale of operations). What solutions are on offer from Wipro to cater to this segment and address the need?

We in Wipro have given a lot of thought to this both in terms of the potential of this segment and their uniqueness of needs. The segment is big in India with more than 800 new hospitals being set up every year and most of them are in the SMB segment. This segment

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