Cloud computing to better healthcare services

Aakash Shah

In this session, Aakash Shah, Director Sales National and International Market, eClinicalWorks spoke on how hospitals can leverage cloud computing to better their service offerings. In his presentation, he also gave an overview of his company’s software offerings for healthcare organisations. He pointed out that eClinicalWorks is one of the oldest companies offering solutions for electronic medical records.

He also spoke on cloud computing and its advantages as well as outlined the various ways for digitisation of healthcare organisations. He gave an overview on the current projects that they are working on, including a telemedicine software device. Shah informed that they are also working on a kiosk application system which will reduce the registration time as a barcode given to the patient will help inform the doctors that the patient has arrived when he/ she shows the barcode at the registration desk.

Shah apprised that the company’s solutions have been installed in over 40 countries across the world, with the US a major area of deployment. He also elaborated on some of the projects that his company has executed for clients across the world. Shah said that the company aims to engage the patient and improve transparency in healthcare through its solutions. He summed up by saying that eClinicalWorks’ vision is to reduce the cost of care but improve the quality of care.