A pilot project is already underway at the Karawanella Hospital and another will begin on May 20 at the Mawanella Hospital, according to ICTA Project Manager of the ‘Multi Disease Surveillance System’ Shriyananda Ratnayake. “This project will keep electronic records of patients visiting hospitals anywhere in the country and make information available to doctors to aid them in their diagnosis, prescription and patient care,” he said.
Each individual will be assigned a unique code which will be used for his identification purpose. A patient’s medical history stored in this manner will allow for the control of hospital pharmacy stocks, laboratory testing and ward control, according to Ratnayake.
“Software of this nature was used in projects conducted in the North and East by the Swedish Red Cross but it was a propriety product—it was not free. Therefore we decided to develop the software locally and have be an open source,” Ratnayake told the Daily Mirror.
He explained that hardware had been deployed to the Karawanella hospital but the chain management to implement such a system was very complicate and therefore training programmes were being conducted to familiarise hospital staff with the operation of the system.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Dianne Silva
Quelle/Source: Daily Mirror, 30.04.2011
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