"Healthcare industry in the Middle East is poised to take gigantic strides by adopting technology. IT brings the promise of clinical, operational and financial efficiency to all participants - patients, doctors, hospital staff and administrators. Hospitals in the Middle East are facing challenges in ensuring that services are provided and bills are submitted as per their agreements with insurance and corporate companies. Hospitals are also looking to improve their operations to comply with the international quality standards. There is also greater emphasis on achieving better clinical outcomes. IT can definitely help in all these areas."
Wipro offers a state-of-the art Hospital Information System (HIS) or a Hospital Management System which is on the latest Microsoft .Net platform. Wipro HIRePS-HIS has been implemented at over 45 sites globally including some leading hospitals in the Middle East. Wipro HIRePS-HIS is comprehensive, enterprise-wide software with over 30 integrated modules. It complies with the international standards like HL-7 and seamlessly integrates with third party applications like PACS and ERP. Wipro HIRePS - HIS handles the complete requirements of healthcare facilities in terms of patient management, clinical management, billing and hospital-wide inventory management.
Wipro HIRePS - HIS interfaces with laboratory equipments, plasma screens, tablet PC's, PDA, mobile phones, etc. The solution is designed to help achieve better clinical outcomes, enhanced financial performance and most importantly patient and employee satisfaction.
Wipro recognizes Middle East as a strategic market as the company witnessed high growth from this geography. In 2004-05 alone, Wipro had YoY (Year-on-Year) growth of 85 per cent in APAC/Middle East region. In Q2, 2005-06, the company had a YoY growth of 28 per cent in the Asia Pacific/Middle East region.
"The benefits of automation and integration are both tangible and intangible. For instance, it can remarkably cut down the waiting time for patients - whether it is for registration, access to facilities or billing and discharge. For doctors, HIS offers timely and accurate information required to make fast and intelligent decisions and diagnoses. It facilitates access to medical records online (a time-consuming and laborious process in most hospitals). HIS can help hospitals improve the quality of their operations by bringing in standardization of workflows and adoption of best practices. From a more strategic point of view, automation represents increased revenues, enhanced patient care, and greater operational and clinical efficiencies. It also prepares the ground for business process re-engineering as the path to competitive and efficient care delivery," added Ranjana.
"IT has immense potential in the realm of healthcare; it is pertinent to underscore the need for integration and creation of workflow while building IT systems for healthcare. In the absence of such integration, IT creates islands of data in a hospital or across chain of hospitals - adding confusion to the prevailing chaos. It is only with seamless integration and well-planned workflow that information becomes available in an accurate and timely manner. The route to a healthy hospital management system lies in such integration," concluded Ranjana.
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