Manipal Hospitals, one of India’s largest hospital chains, has entered into a long-term partnership with Fujifilm India for the deployment of a large-scale PACS.
Based on their agreement, Fujifilm’s RICS PACS will be extended to 23 hospitals and 45 teleradiology facilities under the Manipal Hospitals network across India.
The scalable system, which covers three million studies a year, is already available for its radiology and cardiology specialties.
WHY IT MATTERS
Based on a press release, PACS powered by Fujifilm eliminates their need to manually store, retrieve and send sensitive information, films and reports. It also enables storage of medical documents and images on secure off-site servers ensuring secure access to such sensitive data from anywhere.
For patients, the system will allow them to access digital reports “as and when required” and get diagnoses from their favorite radiologist and cardiologist of Manipal Hospitals anywhere in the country.
THE BIGGEST TREND
In a comment, Dr Dilip Jose, CEO of Manipal Hospitals, said their partnership with Fujifilm offers synergy that will “accelerate our progress towards digitalisation”.
The hospital chain, which serves over 4.5 million patients annually in 28 hospitalshas digitized its assets and processes over the past few years to deliver high-quality care and expand its reach across India, targeting underserved communities in lower-lying cities.
In November, he was intercepted Google Cloud to implement the Amwell telehealth platform to enable virtual visits. Manipal Hospitals is now also using Google Cloud’s conversational AI tools in appointment booking and doctor search.
Their partnership also aims to create a digital drug ordering platform and build its remote patient monitoring capabilities.
In its bid to promote remote health monitoring, Manipal Hospitals sought partnerships last year, one of which is based in the United Kingdom Isansys Lifecare for deploying the Patient Status Engine wireless device to continuously track the conditions of critical patients outside the ICU. Singapore health technology company ConnectedLife has also offered its virtual platform to Manipal Hospitals to help in remote monitoring of post-operative conditions of their patients.
