THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state government’s much-hyped e-health programme Jeevan Rekha, which aims to bring about efficient service delivery and create a centralised database of healthcare information, will be rolled out on Wednesday.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will launch the project at Peroorkada District Model Hospital here. Under it, the government will be developing an electronic demographic database and electronic health record (EHR) of the population, alongside end-to-end automation of all government hospitals, said Health Minister K K Shylaja.
Claiming that this was a first -of-its-kind initiative, she said the new system would help create a good hospital management system. It would also introduce a patient-friendly interface for the public healthcare institutions.
The availability of digital data would give a big impetus to disease surveillance and help provide timely alerts on outbreaks and communicable diseases, said Shylaja. Once the data of a patient is centralised, it would help him or her to get continuous treatment at all hospitals in the state.
The heavy rush at the outpatient department, laboratory, pharmacy and x-ray and scan centres could be avoided once the project is implemented, said the Minister. The project would be linked with the Aadhaar number, which would help streamline the various health schemes.
The pilot project would be launched in Thiruvananthapuram. After this, seven districts - Kollam, Malappuram, Kasargod, Alappuzha, Idukki, Kannur and Ernakulam - would be covered in the first phase. The remaining districts would be covered in the second phase.
Another aim of the project is building an Integrated Healthcare Cloud which will hold the complete healthcare data of all the citizens in the state.