Now hospitals will register disease of each patient online. The pharmacist at the drug distribution centre gives medicine to him without putting anything about his disease in the online system.
The new system developed by the health department with interest to keep a check on outbreak of diseases. This system will help to keep a record of the total number of patients coming to different hospitals for specific diseases prevalent in different areas of the state.
Widespread use of information technology could potentially increase patients’ access to their health information and facilitate future goals of advancing patient-centered care.
Earlier, there was no system of registering disease against the name of patient coming to the government hospital. But, now hospitals will register disease along with the name of the patient coming to the hospital.
But, from now on, the pharmacist will put the name of the disease (written on prescription letter) of the patient before giving him or her medicine. The new system was launched on Saturday. The health department has prepared a list of 46 diseases at initial stage.
Forty-six diseases include swine flu, dengue, malaria, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, fever, chikungunya and scrub typhus.
