A seminar on ‘IT in health care: New trends and technologies' was organized by Software Technology Park of India (STPI), Kakinada at Rangaraya Medical College (RMC) auditorium here on Sunday. Vice-Chancellor of JNTU Kakinada Prof.Allam Apparao while participating said India is a global resource pool of information technologists but the level of penetration of IT into the health care sector is one of the lowest. The potential for adoption of IT by the health care industry is huge, which is however not realized to a large extent. The importance of IT has gone up slowly and it was confined to play a greater role in future because of its multi–disciplinary nature. It involves experts from diverse fields he added. For instance, the Human Genome Project (HGP) which was one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs had the cooperation of computer experts as the key element. Nearly 20,000 scientists from around the world worked on the HGP for almost ten years to release a draft of the genome.
STPI- Hyderabad Director and Development Commissioner (IT & ITES) P. Venugopal said the Indian health care industry was estimated to be worth about Rs 1,00,000 Cr and to grow at the rate of 13 % for the next five years. About 5 percent of the national GDP is accounted by the health sector. Patient records, prescriptions and a whole lot of other things could be computerized for the benefit of the patients. Doctors would be able to do wonders by providing advanced tools of IT for patient care. District Medical and Health Officer (DMHO) D.Vijay Kumar said he was looking forward to IT specialists to extend a helping hand in utilizing IT in primary health centers (PHC's) which supply to the rural poor. He has proposed to provide a computer and Internet connection for every PHC to be in a better position to deliver the health care services. The proposal could amend in about two months. STPI-Kakinada Deputy Director B.Suresh, RMC Principal R.Pratap, Srikiran Institute of Ophthalmology MD S Chandrasekhar, Additional DMHO M Pavan Kumar, HealthNet Global Pvt. Ltd Associate Vice – President M Venkateswar Reddy and others were present.
STPI- Hyderabad Director and Development Commissioner (IT & ITES) P. Venugopal said the Indian health care industry was estimated to be worth about Rs 1,00,000 Cr and to grow at the rate of 13 % for the next five years. About 5 percent of the national GDP is accounted by the health sector. Patient records, prescriptions and a whole lot of other things could be computerized for the benefit of the patients. Doctors would be able to do wonders by providing advanced tools of IT for patient care. District Medical and Health Officer (DMHO) D.Vijay Kumar said he was looking forward to IT specialists to extend a helping hand in utilizing IT in primary health centers (PHC's) which supply to the rural poor. He has proposed to provide a computer and Internet connection for every PHC to be in a better position to deliver the health care services. The proposal could amend in about two months. STPI-Kakinada Deputy Director B.Suresh, RMC Principal R.Pratap, Srikiran Institute of Ophthalmology MD S Chandrasekhar, Additional DMHO M Pavan Kumar, HealthNet Global Pvt. Ltd Associate Vice – President M Venkateswar Reddy and others were present.
World Heritage Day Celebrated Posted on 19-Apr-2010
World Heritage Day was celebrated by Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) at Andhra Sahitya Parishat Museum this Sunday. Additional Joint Collector B.Rama Rao participated as the chief guest. The program was organized in association with the State Archeology Department a...
Pending Pensions to be Cleared soon Posted on 19-Apr-2010
District Public Relation Officer, Mr.V.Ramanjaneylu while addressing media persons said that around 500 old artists in East Godavari District will receive their pending pensions of Rs.500 per month per head very soon. The scheme is applicable to artists above 60 years of age he added. The scheme is b...
Praja Patham Begins Posted on 20-Apr-2010
Pilli Subhaschandra Bose, the Social Welfare Minister said the Praja Patham program was aimed at solving people's problems like drinking water scarcity and deficient power supply. People should take part in the village meetings to be organized under the program, and take their problems to the not...
JNTU-K Examinations Started Posted on 20-Apr-2010
Engineering and Pharmacy annual examinations at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University began on this Monday. The examinations will be concluded on June 3rd. Dr.Ch.Satyanarayana, the Controller of the Examinations, JNTU-K, said nearly two lakh students of 176 affiliated colleges of JNTU from 6 dist...
Meeting on National Green Corp(NGC) Posted on 20-Apr-2010
District Revenue Officer Mr.S.Venkatarao directed the program conducted in association with National Green core Corp (NGC) for protection of environment must be a huge success. A meeting was held on the discussion of National Green Corp arrangements at DRO chamber this Monday. In this meeting, progra...
SP Y.Nagireddy Transferred Posted on 21-Apr-2010
District Superintendent of Police, Y.Nagireddy got transferred to Hyderabad North Zone as DCP. He is replaced by Mr.G.Srinivas who belongs to direct IPS batch and he previously worked at Prodduturu of Kadapa District. As of now he is working as SP in Intelligence Bureau at Hyderabad. Mr.Y.Nagireddy t...
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