Health Care System: How to Nurture a High-Performance Medical Group of India using EHR

Before we review what it takes to operate a high-performing health care system, let’s start with some fast facts related to India:

Total number of doctors registered (allopathic): Approximately 8, 56,065 (Till 31^st July, 2011)

Total number of AYUSH Doctors (Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, Naturopathy, Homeopathy): Approximately 7, 121, 21 (Till 31^st July, 2011)

Total number of dentist registered: Approximately 11, 8000

Hospitals: 15,393

Total no. of licensed Blood Bank: 2445

Exactly who is leading and managing this healthcare system fiercely independent collection of practices and doctors? Are their incentives now aligned with those of the hospital or health care system with whom they are working?  In addition, does this structure address the medical group constituency?

Very Important questions: While Indian health care currently trails nearly every other industry in innovation. We can see the accelerated growth in Indian healthcare. Government expenditure has also increased over last period. We are just beginning to see a wave of innovation the likes of which our industry has never seen: As innovation, we can see Ambulatory Surgical or Emergency Centers, Retail clinical chains especially in dental. All that has changed, and even “day care and hospital at home” facilities are demonstrating improved patient satisfaction and better outcomes.

Each of these new models is for caring about patients in the most cost-effective way. In addition, to succeed, each of these new models requires highly coordinated networks among high performance medical groups.

So how does a healthcare system transform a collection of independent practices into a high-performance medical group?

The solutions for transforming healthcare are followings:

1. A Clinical collaboration allows easy access, secure sharing and integration of clinical data of patients across a variety of platforms in a patient-centric care. This facilitates both storing of clinical data in various formats like in image, PDF, Word etc. and sharing this with other doctors. DocEngage helps in storage of various clinical records related to patients and sharing with other practioners.

2. An analytics service to develop both clinical as well as operational insight. Only Visibility is not enough. Now hospitals/clinicians need access to real-time analytics and dashboards that help them to understand revenue drivers and helps in decision-making at the point of care. DocEngage provides real time analytics and dashboard which gives an insight of revenue drivers and makes decision making more evidence based

3. Workflows that guide action to the right care provider at the right time. DocEngage helps in managing the workflow in easier manner and supports care provider by providing evidence material required for giving right treatment to patients. Evidence based material includes all patient’s assessments forms, investigations with impression, previous medications list, previous clinical notes and history related to perticular patients.

DocEngage is uniquely positioned to deliver above three solutions to health care systems. Here are a few examples of the advantages the DocEngage

Smart, comprehensive and intuitive access and helps in sharing of information—regardless of platform across the entire continuum of care;

• Provides real time visibility across the care providers network
• Rapid deployability, at one time more than one care center can be managed within single Organisation without any difficulties
• Financial efficiency, no software installation and server maintenance cost
• Helps in providing the right information to the right person at the right moment of care