Healthcare: Hry govt to roll out tablet-based application

To give healthcare a shot at going paperless and effectively register, update and track services being provided to pregnant women, mothers and new- borns, a tablet-based application would soon be rolled out in seven districts of Haryana on a pilot basis.
Health Minister, Anil Vij, said here today that Auxiliary Nursing Midwife Online (ANMOL), a tablet-based application which is a central government initiative, would be launched in Gurugram, Mahendragarh, Kaithal, Yamuna Nagar, Karnal, Hissar and Jind.
The Aadhaar-enabled ANMOL would aim at bringing better healthcare services to millions of pregnant women, mothers and newborns in India. The application ends drudgery and repetitive processes for Auxiliary Nurse Midwifery (ANM) by making their work paperless, Vij said in an official release here.

They can use the tablets to enter and update the service records real time data of beneficiaries, Vij said.
"Since it is a completely digitalized process, the high quality of data and its accountability are maintained. Apart from these facilities, women and couples can be counselled using audio and videos on ANMOL tablets on subjects like high risk pregnancy, immunization and family planning," he said.
Amit Jha, Principal Secretary, Health, said, all data ANMs put into the tablets would get updated automatically in the central server.
"In the event of an internet outage, the tablets will work in offline mode, saving all data until internet connectivity is re-established," Jha said.