Dell hopes that upcoming mid-size hospital chains will find it attractive to implement its cloud-based solution ‘hospital IT in a box.’

The solution promises a cost-effective end-to-end hospital information system on a monthly fee, said a company official.

Dell is targeting hospital chains with 50-100 beds that will use IT processes right from the time a patient registers till the final billing. This includes various lab tests and pharmacy bills. Usually, hospitals have a module for each process but Dell will offer everything as a package on the cloud.

Cost-effective One hospital is already testing the solution and in three months, three clients are likely to implement it.

There is no initial capex on IT infrastructure for clients, said Veera Raghavan, Global Practice Head, Dell Services (Healthcare & Life Sciences).

A hospital with 50-100 beds with basic software applications needs to pay a monthly fee of ₹25,000 while it could cost over ₹2.5 lakh to set up such IT infrastructure, in addition to setting up an IT team, he said. Thereafter, there will also be recurring costs.

Traditional hospitals have been centred on doctors while new ones would be more IT driven, with a standard process in place. Dell’s specialists have worked on the new product, which was launched in March, he said.

Raghavan said nearly 100 new hospital chains are either being set up or coming up in the country. The IT spend in the healthcare sector is nearly $1 billion and growing annually at about 25 per cent, he said. Dell’s Healthcare and Life Sciences division, which is its fastest growing vertical, has nearly 1,100 professionals (mainly doctors, nurses and clinicians) of whom nearly 200 are in India.

It collaborates with Ubq Technologies, which provides hospital information systems, and Ramco Systems for the ERP on the Cloud, to provide the complete package, he said.

Focus on India Globally, Dell’s healthcare business has over 500 technology partners and 14,000 healthcare employees. It supports over 2,000 healthcare providers, 100 life sciences organisations and nearly 100 health plans in the US, the UK and West Asia. It also manages over seven billion images through Dell Clinical Cloud Image Archive.

“We are now turning our attention more towards India, and soon on Australia and Latin America,” Raghavan said.

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