OEM to work with Share India to deploy cloud-enabled health solutions in Andhra Pradesh.
Business Standard reports that HP is to collaborate with Share (Society for Health Awareness and Rural Enlightenment) India, a non-government scientific and industrial research organisation (SIRO) to help improve access to adequate healthcare in rural areas of India using its cloud technology healthcare solutions.
Both HP and Share India signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together, with Share India already recognised for its work in improving healthcare awareness and facilities to the country’s underprivileged citizens through community welfare initiatives.
The MoU will see a healthcare centre in rural Aliyabad be transformed into an “eHealth centre” through the introduction of HP’s fully integrated cloud technology solutions, which will connect medical equipment at the centre to an “eHealth cloud” and collect patient data to enable better diagnosis. Remote consultation will also be available with the introduction of built-in video conferencing options.
It is expected that the new eHealth centre will improve medical access for 20,000 people across 10 villages, with the opportunity for people to receive diagnosis and treatment from doctors at a telemedicine studio in Share India MediCiti Hospital in Ghanpur village in the Rangareddy district of Andhra Pradesh.
HP and Share India are also planning to establish similar initiatives in other parts of Andhra Pradesh, the north-eastern states of India and Rajasthan; with HP already achieving success with the opening of its first eHealth centre in Chausala village of Kaithal district, Haryana in December last year after the OEM partnered with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The eHealth centre recorded over 4,000 patients in the first 100 days of operation.
Jaijit Bhattacharya, Director, Government Advisory, South Asia HP said: “The launch of our first eHealth centre with CSIR late last year was a catalyst in helping address the challenges of delivering scalable healthcare options across the country.”