TN to introduce hospital mngt information system

Chennai, Aug 4: The Tamil Nadu government will come out with a hospital management information system to provide better healthcare to the people, according to Health and Family Welfare Special Secretary P W C Davidar.

Inaugurating the Department of Hepato-biliary and Pancreatic Diseases and Gastro-intestinal bleeding at Life Line multi-speciality hospital here last night, Mr Davidar said under this new system all the activities of the selected government hospitals would be computerised to enable the controlling officials at the hospitals to take decisions to improve the services in the hospitals.

It was also proposed to computerise the patient treatment system inclusive of out patient department.

Initially this system would be introduced in 38 hospitals in the state and it would be extended to the remaining government hospitals later, he said.

He said the World Bank aided Rs 597.15 crore-Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project, which commenced in 2005, was proceeding well.

The project had undertaken upgradation of hospitals in Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Theni, Pudukkottai and Kanyakumari districts.

The government was implementing two pilot health projects in the state for prevention and early detection of cervical cancer and prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease and hypertension.

He said the screening of cervical cancer project was implemented in Theni and Thanjavur districts and it proposed to cover all the women in the age group of 30 to 60 years.

The prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease and hypertension project would be implemented in Sivaganga and Virudhunagar districts for a period of two years.

Under this project, eight lakh people above the age group of 30 years would be screened.

If these two pilot projects were proved successful, it would be extended to all other districts in the state, he added.

Life Line Hospitals Chairman Dr J S Rajkumar said liver diseases were rampant in the country, mainly because of Hepatitis B, C viruses and increasing number of alcoholics.

UNI