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38 Overview of the scheme The e-Hospital initiative is a cloud-based Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) application developed by National Informatics Centre under theMinistry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) in June 2019. MeitY’s aims to promote e-Government, e-Industry, e-Innovation, e-Learning, e-Security, e-Inclusion and Internet Governance. e-Hospital is made available to Central Government/ State Government/ Autonomous/ Cooperative hospitals on cloud through SaaS (Software as a Service) model. Need of Initiative The e-Hospital application is developed for digitization of internal workflows and processes of hospitals. It was needed to bring patients, hospitals and doctors on a single digital platform. Further, a stop-solution like e-Hospital was needed to improve the delivery of healthcare services to the citizens across the country. Key Objective of e-Hospital The key objectives of e-Hospital are as below: ƒ To provide the e-Hospital, e-BloodBank and ORS applications to Government hospitals ƒ To build online patient portal for providing citizen centric services like online appointment booking, access to lab reports online and blood availability status ƒ To provide application related technical support to the hospitals through dedicated Call Centre/ Helpdesk Key Achievements of e-Hospital Under e-Hospital initiative, 10 modules are developed which include: ƒ Patient Registration: Used for patient registration in OPD & Casualty departments as well as to book, confirm and cancel appointments. ƒ Admission, Discharge &Transfer (IPD): Deals with the complete treatment and services provided to the patient during his stay in the hospital. ƒ Billing: Handles all types of billing workflows. e-Hospital Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (By National Informatics Centre) Dun & Bradstreet