<div>The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Hewlett Packard (HP) have developed a cloud-enabled healthcare solution to provide affordable and preliminary healthcare in remote areas that have no immediate access to primary healthcare.</div><div> </div><div>The first such eHealth Centre (eHC), which utilises the IT platform to integrate medical instruments that collect basic patient health data for medical diagnosis through remote videoconference consultation, has been installed in Kaithal district of Haryana, a joint statement by CSIR and HP said.</div><div> </div><div>Over 4000 patient visits were recorded in the first 100 days of operation of the centre, it added.</div><div> </div><div>“This initiative of CSIR and HP creates a platform for the fourth paradigm of science, data-intensive discovery, while bringing affordable healthcare services to the doorstep of people. CSIR, which has made phenomenal contributions in the Indian generic-drug industry and has developed the genomic landscape of the people of India, is now positioned to use the eHealth Center data for novel discoveries to create ultra affordable health care products and services. The success of CSIR-led Open Source Drug Discovery Program gives us confidence that open innovation for healthcare will play an important role in the data intensive world,” said Samir K. Brahmachari, Chief Mentor CSIR-OSDD Unit, Director General CSIR and Secretary DSIR, Ministry of Science & Technology.<br /><br />The eHC has been successfully implemented and tested in partnership with O.P. Jindal Gramin Jan Kalyan Sansthan, 3M India, Maharaja Agrasen Medical College (MAMC) and Orion eServices at Chausala village in Kaithal district, Haryana.</div><div> </div><div>According to a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Public Opinion, 89 per cent of rural Indian patients have to travel an average of 8 kilometres (5 miles) to access basic medical treatment and the rest have to travel even further. The eHC solution is expected to address these challenges.</div><div> </div><div>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 policymakers.</div><div> </div><div> </div>
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