SevenHills' e-health to tie up with 30 hospitals by next year

e-Health, a part of Visakhapatnam-based SevenHills Healthcare Pvt Ltd and the first paperless hospitals in India, plans to tie up with 30 major hospitals across the country by the end of 2012.

“We are planning to tie up with 30 major hospitals by next year to provide e-health solutions. We are in discussion with hospitals including Wockhardt, Apollo and Global Hospital,” Suresh Kumar, chief information officer, SevenHIlls e-Health, said. The e-health solution is available in three hospitals – a 350-bed hospital in Vizag, Seven Hills health city in Mumbai and a hospital in Bhubaneswar.

e-health is a web-enabled hospital management solution that provides end-to-end solution to medical players and helps in reducing the overall cost of operation. The technology helps doctors and nursing staff in getting access to patient data from anywhere.

Every patient is allocated a unique health identification card (UHID) at the time of registration. This UHID provides the complete details of the patient's medical history as recorded in SevenHills e-Health suite at any point and also during her subsequent visits.

The service is available in two models - enterprise module and SaaS (software as a solution, where payment is made per-patient), across hospitals. To install the enterprise model, around Rs 30-35 lakh is required for a 150-bed hospital, he said.

“There are only 5-6 full-fledged paperless hospitals in India. Seeing the high storage cost in metros, more hospitals are now looking to go paperless. According to a study done by SevenHills, the solution saves around Rs 3 lakh for a 150-bed hospital and storage facility,” he said.

According to a report, it is estimated that Indian hospitals spend close to $191 million on IT, and this spending would grow at 25 per cent over the 2010 - 2020 period.

It also has plans to take its e-health platform venture to West Asia and US by 2012. “We have plans to host our application on data centres and on cloud computing in those regions. Currently, we are scouting for business strategic partners and medical equipment vendors,” he said.