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Thought Provoking

HealthcareLeaders Forum

Achieving Operational Efficiencies in Healthcare Management, was the nameof the latest successful event organised by eHEALTH magazine. The event was

held at Le Meridien, New Delhi, on August 23, 2012.

Organised in the format of a round

table session, the event was fo-

cused on highlighting the use

of ICTs in the public health domain and

the benets that they offer. The eminent

speakers who participated in the lively dis-

cussion included:

Anil Swarup, Director General - La-

bour Welfare, Ministry of Labour &

Employment, Government of India;

Dr BS Bedi, Advisor, C-DAC;

Dr Rajiv Kumar Jain, Director -

H&FW, Railway Board, Ministry of

Railways;

Dr Pradeep Saxena, Director, Cen-

tral Bureau of Health Intelligence,

Dte. General of Health Services,

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare;

Dr SK Thirunavukkarasu, Deputy

Director HMIS, Tamil Nadu Health

Systems Project;

Sunil Kumar, Sr Technical Director

NIC

Dr Tarun Seem, Additional Com-

missioner of Income Tax, Chief

Commissioner of Income Tax, New

Delhi.

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Anil Swarup,

Director General

- Labour Welfare,Ministry of Labour

&Employment,

Government of

India, said, The

poor man does

not die of kidneytransplant or heart

failure, he dies

much before that.

He dies of typhoid

and malaria...

While dwelling on the subject of re-

cent trends in Indian healthcare, Dr

Pradeep Saxena said, It is a question

of willingness. If a new hospital is com -

ing up or a leading hospital wants to

use ICT Technology, they can use the

dashboard. This can give minute by

minute information of patients mov-

ing from emergency room to dressing

room to x-ray room and connect other

related departments. In hospitals every

minute is changing and you cant ask

nurse and doctor that what is happen-

ing at every moment.

In a thought provoking speech, Anil

Swarup, Director General - Labour Wel-

fare, Ministry of Labour &Employment,

Government of India, said, The poor

man does not die of kidney transplant or

heart failure, he dies much before that.He dies of typhoid and malaria. So this

sophistication that came through tech-

nologies we are looking at today will

serve the purpose. We have to reach out

to poor man and we have to see how

technology can help bridge the health-

care divide. So my request to the tech-

nology provider is to rst think to move

beyond your city and dont conne your

area of application in emergency places

like tsunami affected or earthquake af-

fected locations.

Dr Rajiv Kumar Jain, Director -

H&FW, Railway Board, and Ministry

of Railways, said, If we talk about

healthcare efciency, then we will have

to move away from healthcare cen-

tric prescriptions to non-healthcare

sector discretions. India is a land of

paradoxes and it shall remain a land

of paradoxes. In India, if we need to

be successful in providing efcient

healthcare facilities, only then we will

be able to become either felicitators or

providers.

Dr BS Bedi, Advisor, C-DAC, opined,

ICT use in healthcare is not debatable;

its only the use that should make a dif-

ference.

Dr Tarun Seem, Additional Commis-

sioner of Income Tax, O/O Chief Com-

missioner of Income Tax, New Delhi,took the discussion to a new level by

his words. He said, We have a saying

that if you manufacture something for

the masses, you will live in the class-

es. But if you dene the product for the

classes, you will remain in the masses;

its true in every sector like education,

health and every kind of public deliv-

ery. We have to look for better solu-

tions, the EMR has to be at our scale

and standard of living. The thing is that

our scale is different, our possibilities

are different.

Dr. Sunil Kumar, Senior Technical

Director, NIC, expressed some lofty

opinions for eradicating the myriad

scars on Indian healthcare. He said, I

have only one point to make. By imple-

menting e-Hospital, medical records

can be transferred from one hospi-

tal to in any other hospital. So that in

case of emergency we dont have to

sit down. It should be exported or itshould be imported.

The organiser of the Healthcare

Leaders Forum, eHEALTH, is a pre-

mier print and online monthly publica-

tion focusing on the latest and most

cutting-edge initiatives in healthcare

ICTs and medical technologies. The

magazine also takes out a weekly

newsletter that delivers rich, relevant

and up-to-date information to thou-

sands of readers. The print edition of

the magazine enjoys immense popu-

larity in the medical fraternity and in

the corporate sector.