No more queues for OPD appointment
Govind Sharma
JAMMU, Feb 14: Very soon, patients will be able to get OPD appointment and view their laboratory reports as well as availability in blood banks online as Government Medical College and its Associated Hospitals (GMC&AHs) Jammu are going to shift to e-Hospital.
Official sources told Excelsior that the process for shifting to e-Hospital has already been started by the authorities of GMC Jammu, under ‘Digital India’ program of Government of India, as a part of which a patient portal of e-Hospital Platform has been developed by National Informatics Centre.
They disclosed that recently, a committee comprising Narendra Singh Jamwal (Administrator, GMC&AHs Jammu) as chairman, Dr Dara Singh (Medical Superintendent, GMC Jammu) as members, Dr Sandeep Dogra (Associate Professor, Microbiology Department, GMC Jammu) as member secretary and Dr Rajat Gupta (Assistant Professor, Pathology Department), Dr Apurab Gupta (Assistant Professor, ENT Department) and Dr Ashima Badyal (Lecturer, Biochemistry Department) as members, was constituted by Principal GMC Jammu to work out the feasibility of initiating process of switching to e-Hospital.
They further shared that earlier on February 5, an IT committee of the Hospital was constituted for the purpose and both the committees have been working day and night to complete this project in shortest possible time.
“As part of its several steps to switch to e-Hospital or other e-concepts such as Telemedicine, biometric attendance, etc, the GMC Jammu has already established Local Area Network (LAN) in all the departments, faculty rooms, OPD counters, administrative blocks of the institution and its associated hospitals which have been connected to a dedicated central server and internet is being provided to all these nodes,” sources added.
Once the process is completed, sources said, the patients will get various online services such as online OPD appointment, besides viewing of lab reports, status of availability in blood banks, etc by registered mobile number or Unique Hospital Identification Number (UHID).
Counting the benefits of the e-Hospital, sources said, with switching of GMC&AHs to digital mode, the higher authorities will be able to monitor the OPD services and other healthcare services in the hospitals in a better way from the comfort of sitting in their offices.
“Tracking of patient’s record will become very easy and within no time, a patient’s medical record or lab report will be tracked. There will be no more heaps of papers in medical record sections,” sources claimed, adding, outside the OPD registration counters also, there will be no long queues. They, however, said that present system of OPD appointment will remain in place as several less educated or old patients may find the online process complicated.
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