IIT Madras develops IT tools to improve rural health
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has created an IT tool to monitor and improve the health of Scheduled Caste (SC) communities in Andhra Pradesh.
It was implemented for a project at E. Palaguttapalli SC in Chittoor district, where it was used to collect household-level health-related insights year-round and for an objective assessment of impact. of medical treatment and dietary advice for primary health. conditions.
The project also hosts live online sessions every other month, where special lectures on improving health are given.
Following this pilot, IIT Madras researchers plan to build a mobile application to digitize health status monitoring and mapping in SC communities.
AIIMS New Delhi uses digital for payments
The All India Institute of Health Sciences New Delhi (AIIMS New Delhi) will roll out fully digital payments at its counters starting next April.
Public hospitals and medical universities are setting up a smart card facility to enhance the patient checkout experience. It will be integrated with the existing payment facility with arrangements made for installment payments.
After the facility went live, no cash payments were accepted at AIIMS New Delhi counters other than its smart card. Recharge counters will also be installed at different locations within the OPD.
ASUS, Octopian bring AI medical encryption solution to Middle East
IT vendors ASUS and Octopian have partnered to provide an integrated cloud solution that optimizes revenue cycle management in the Middle East.
This partnership will see ASUS Miraico AI-powered encryption assistant integrated with the Octopian Cloud platform. The resulting solution will help healthcare providers analyze medical terms in clinical records and automatically recommend the right ICD-10 code to optimize stakeholder team tasks to diagnose and enhance hospital operations.
According to the press release, this integrated offering will first come to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
