The Hindu Business Line : Infosys completes deployment of patient management tool

Bangalore, May 28 Infosys Technologies Ltd informed the Bombay Stock Exchange on Wednesday that it has completed deployment of a patient management tool for an award-winning health information technology initiative to improve healthcare access for rural and underserved patients.

The company collaborated with the University of New Mexico, US, to improve patient outcomes by designing and implementing a Web application that facilitates real-time flow and access of interoperable clinical data among participating health providers, as part of Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a company press release said.

Project ECHO’s Web-based patient management tool has an intuitive Web interface that integrates patient data in real-time from all participating health providers, leveraging Infosys Healthcare Integration and Collaboration solution. As a result, physicians will be able to co-manage patients based on a more accurate exchange of data.

This is expected to enhance case-based educational experiences by facilitating more informed care-management decision making and continuous training of rural physicians. The clinician-centric tool also delivers a platform for physicians to stay connected with patients throughout the treatment, ensuring better prognosis and improved patient compliance, the release added.

Reducing barriers

The Web-enabled software will allow expansion of the project to multiple chronic diseases and health conditions such as HIV, cardiac conditions, mental health disorders, diabetes, autism, and substance-abuse disorders. Since the system is delivered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, it also reduces potential technology barriers that previously existed in rural health clinics.

The SaaS model is enabled through Infosys Healthcare Integration and Collaboration solution, an enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture-based integration solution. It enables retrieval, sharing and use of data captured across disparate healthcare IT systems.

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