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Wipro Reveals “Pay Per Use” Hospital Information System
Posted by simontoffel on December 15th, 2008
Bangalore, December 11, 2008:
Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business of Wipro Ltd and a leading provider of IT and business transformation services, today announced the launch of Wipro HIS Lite, a Hospital Information System in the SaaS model also known as “Pay per Use” model at Paras Hospital in Ghaziabad near New Delhi. Wipro HIS Lite is a comprehensive hospital information system tailor-made for the small hospital and nursing home segment.
For the first time in India, Wipro brings the innovative “Pay Per Use” model for the small hospital and nursing home community where traditionally investing heavily in buying hardware software and maintenance was a deterrent towards IT automation. The traditional model not only required a substantial commitment of financial resources, it also needed manpower, space, power and air-conditioning. In the “pay per use” model the hospitals have to pay just a monthly user based subscription fee and hence even very small hospitals with few users can use the service which aims at addressing the challenges faced by the healthcare provider community. The system will help doctors maintain patient data efficiently, provide better care and diagnosis to their patients, reduce patient waiting time by managing the services and billing processes better. It also drives profitability in the hospitals through strong MIS and business intelligence and provides integration among all departments of the hospital.
Mr. Prasenjit Lahiri, Head Business Operations - Wipro HealthCare IT said, “Wipro Healthcare has introduced the concept of “SaaS” or the “Pay Per Use model” for its Hospital Information System, Wipro HIS Lite which is a completely integrated and comprehensive software which automates the processes of the hospital and makes information management simple and user friendly. All that is required is a dedicated connectivity to the Wipro server in the datacenter and hospitals can use the software on a real-time basis like it is in their own office.” He also added that “there are more than 20,000 small hospitals and nursing home establishments in India, which provides Wipro a tremendous opportunity for market penetration. For this Wipro is also adding other service lines in the same model like electronic medical records on the web and specialty modules for GPs and Specialist Consultants”.
Dr Deepak Jain., Medical Director, Paras hospitals said, “We have decided to go in for the Pay per Use Model because it reduces our one-time investment and also takes away our headaches of running, maintaining, upgrading the software. In a small set up it is not only cost effective; it is very simple and convenient too”.
Dr Sanjeev Bansal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bansal hospitals who has also decided to adopt the “Pay Per Use” Model of using the Hospital Information System said “In this model my hospital staff need not spend time on running and maintaining the server and application. It frees my staff to concentrate on their work and Wipro is responsible for managing and running the software and hardware infrastructure”.
source: Wipro
