IT-based healthcare systems launched
Three important initiatives straddling technology and medicine and building an interface between the two were launched at the Indian Institute of Technology here on Saturday.
NeuroDbase, a unique customised electronic medical record system for Indian Neurologists, Neuropsychiatry Online, a joint effort by the Neurosciences India Group and IIT Madras to provide internet-based counselling to people living in rural areas and Pubmedinfo.com, a unique public portal for health related information were released by Baskara Narayana, Director, Satellite Communication, Indian Space Research Organisation. The occasion was the M.V. Arunachalam Endowment Lecture on Space Technology for Bridging the Health Divide.
Introducing NeuroDbase, E.S. Krishnamoorthy, vice-chairman and director (Neurosciences) Voluntary Health Services, said it was an EMR customised to Indian setting, enabling the collection and categorisation of neuro-psychological data. The history and physical examination of the patient, details about the investigations conducted on him/her, the neuro-ability assessment can all be recorded online.
