MGM Medical College and Hospital has gone digital for keeping patient records by introducing new computing system. A city-based agency, Ocean Enterprises, has been given job to bring about a network of computing system in the medical college hospital.RY Chowdhury, superintendent, MGM Medical College and Hospital said that in an effort to provide better services to patients the step is being taken. A local agency, Ocean Enterprises has been roped in for maintaining the digitization system in the hospital for an effective and transparent service to the patients. The system will ensure details of patients, pharmacy, labs, discharge summary, birth and deaths, is available with a click of mouse.
Chowdhury said that the hospital wants to adopt modern technology as part of its effort to provide holistic health services. The move will also help for the research work for the medical college with the patients’ case-history. According to computerised registration system, every patient is given a patient identification (PID) number. A patient will not need to get registered once again if reappears for the treatment even after a year as the same PID number will work.
Earlier, the medical college hospital used to follow the age-old manual system of maintaining patient records.AN Mishra, principal, MGM Medical College said that the move is the need of the hour as in the medical college hospital as it one of the guidelines of the Medical Council of India that needs to be implemented. Mishra said by introducing a network of computing system, patients will be benefited and will open the doors of opportunity for medical research in the MGM Medical College.“Rs1crore has been earmarked for the project. In the days to come the network of computing will be further strengthened,” said the principal.
The MGM Medical College and Hospital has a footfall of over 200 patients on an average in its Out Patients Departments every day. It has a capacity 520 beds. The State Government governed Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital, is an Indian medical school established in 1964. It is situated in the outskirts of Jamshedpur.The students are admitted through an All India pre medical test CBSE PMT held by CBSE and Jharkhand and Bihar states’ combined entrance tests. The college’s hospital is located in Sakchi.