The official said the hospital administration made a five-minute video to the ministry about the tele-evidence facility at the institute and it was working to prepare a presentation on the online registration facility as well, to be submitted to the Union ministry.
By Adil Akhzer
The Union health ministry has sought blueprints of online registration and tele-evidence facilities from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research to replicate them in other hospitals of the country.
The facilities were formally inaugurated by Union Health Minister J P Nadda at the institute last month. PGI officials said the minister was impressed with the facilities and had expressed the desire to replicate them in other Centre-run hospitals in the country.
AIIMS in New Delhi has the online registration facility. Officials said Nadda asked the administration to submit the blueprints. “The ministry is impressed with the facilities here and they are interested to replicate them in other hospitals of the country,” said a senior official from the administration.
The official said the hospital administration made a five-minute video to the ministry about the tele-evidence facility at the institute and it was working to prepare a presentation on the online registration facility as well, to be submitted to the Union ministry.
Officials said the Union minister during his visit last month had said the hospital has developed some good services and faculty members should visit here and see to how these can be replicated ed in their own institutes.
PGI spokeswoman Manju Wadwalkar said she is unaware about the development. The online registration facility, a part of the Digital India Initiative, according to the PGI is aimed at improving the patient care in the region. PGI had introduced this facility as a trial run for new patients in April 2015 and it was inaugurated formally last month. Till December 2015, the PGI officials had claimed that 27,277 patients have availed this facility.
About the tele-evidence facility, officials said the PGI has received 2,000 summons in 2014 and 2,100 in 2015 for giving their professional or expert medical evidence in various courts located in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and other states. The facility helps the doctors to save their time as it provides an option to provide the evidence from the hospital rather than going to the court.