The centre will improve rural healthcare crisis in India
Recognising that technology has a significant role in addressing this void, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is delivering a digital healthcare solution: cloud-computing enabled eHealth Centres that provide specialised healthcare in the most rural Indian communities and enable remote diagnoses from highly skilled medics hundreds of miles away. This year HPE has already committed to launching five additional facilities. In February, HPE and the Government of Uttarakhand signed an agreement to donate four eHealth Centres and one telemedicine studio in the state, which sits in one of the most treacherous and mountainous regions of India.
Meanwhile, in the state of Maharashtra, the government has requested HPE open a sixth centre following the success of five deployed centres that have already benefitted over 10,000 patients. The new centre is expected to benefit a population base of 9,000 additional villagers across three villages in and around Pachora.
The affordable and rapidly deployable solution pairs online training materials for remote healthcare workers with diagnostic tools that capture vital statistics on a cloud-based application. Launched by Hewlett Packard Company in 2012, the programme has now treated more than half a million patients across nearly 100 centres in 18 Indian states, and has launched additional centres in Bhutan and the Philippines.
The centres are quickly deployed at low cost directly into villages and under-privileged urban areas in refurbished shipping containers and are managed by local health authorities. Each comes fully equipped with key medical diagnostic equipment, open electronic medical records (EMR) systems and HPE cloud-enabled technology.
The HPE cloud solution also collects and analyses data to further personalise the healthcare experience and facilitate community-wide health monitoring and management. As smartphones become ubiquitous and compute devices become more accessible to individuals, increasing amounts of data will make precision medicine possible – enabling the development of highly targeted diagnoses and treatments while reducing the need for medical specialists on-site. Even an epidemic outbreak or geo-specific ailments could be instantly identified thanks to real-time analytics, equipping policymakers with the insights to better shape healthcare policies.
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