Narayana Health, ICT Health renew contract for cloud system

Indian hospital chain Narayana Health on Monday announced it has renewed its partnership with convergence solutions provider ICT Health to use the Health Information Management System (HINAI) cloud web system.

"As of date, 38 of our hospitals are using the ICT Health Hospital Information system and 19 outpatient clinics are using the ICT Health system. The extension of the contract is a reaffirmation of the enabling benefits of ICT's Health HINAI system and managed services," said Narayana Health group CEO Ashutosh Raghuvanshi in a press release here.

Cloud technology helps in increasing the efficiency and quality of medical system and reduces cost of medical treatments and tests, the release added.

Both the partners aim to provide faster, cheaper and effective health facilities to customers globally.

"Our team is committed to deploy the latest versions of our ONC certified HINAI Web, a complete EHR, clinical operations and hospital management system enabling the enterprise care operations of Narayana Health across all the facilities from a managed private cloud," said ICT Health CEO Gautam Dey.

Narayana Health is headquartered in Bengaluru and has 6,498 beds distributed across 20 locations in 32 hospitals.

ICT Health offers patient administration, electronic health record, clinical support services including pharmacy, diagnostics, imaging services and revenue cycle management to more than 100 health care providers in India, Middle East and Africa.