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I.T. with a Human Touch


Lets explore IT in healthcare through:

• The Raghavan’s Diaspora

• Tiny Padmamma’s Birthday

• Dr Chalapathy’s Ghost

“IT makes progress and produces meaningful results only when IT addresses the human situation”

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The Raghavan’s Diaspora

Raghavan’s son in Boston, USA

Daughter Raghavan

in UK with family

Mrs Raghavan is visiting Chennai

Mr Raghavan stays in Bangalore

A typical diasporic family, Ready to face anysituation??


One unfortunate day, Mr Raghavansuffers a major cardiac attack.

His neighbour Mr Gupta rushes him to a hospital.



Its late night in Bangalore, whereas Raghavan’s son is at work in a meeting

Raghavan’s daughter is attending the“Bombay Dreams” show in London



Mrs Raghavan is immediately informed, she rushes to Bangalore.

The hospital is under pressure to go ahead with the treatment without presence of family members. Doctor Vivek is ready to operate…



Son watching Video

E-card from Daughter

Online consent form

“IT could find several meaningful contributions to mitigate this human situation”


“With a better understanding of the human situation, IT can really make a difference!!

Relationship Management

• Virtual Visit

• Online settlement of bill

• eCard

• Web Services for Priority travel booking



Little Padmammalives in Varuthakode near Erode

Her friends are going to celebrate her birthday

But why are they all headingtowards the rail station??

Little Padmamma’a Birthday


Padmamma’s mother tells the story

It was when Padmamma was a tiny 15 month old

Suddenly, she developed a huge headache and the doctor said she needed Neurosurgery



Padmamma’s mother was shocked as this meant treatment in Chennai or Bangalore !!

There was no way they could afford the expenses.

Until the Station Master came and told them something really novel.



Everyday the Chennai Express had a special coach – a travelling

hospital

Doctors from Bangalore and Chennai were able to investigate Padmamma’s problem

They treated her for some days with medicines. Then on her birthday a

neurosurgeon was on the train



The hospital coach was detached at the Station.

Little Padmamma was successfully operated by Dr Maithri.

She is now a happy 6 years old. And yes! all her birthdays are celebrated on the train

station…



Telemedicine

• Remote access to medical devices and patients.

• High bandwidth connectivity.

• Long term sustainable solution at affordable cost.

“IT has to work within the limitations of infrastructure and yet deliver far reaching impact”



Dr. Chalapathy was a renowned Endocrinologist.

His family got to see very little of him during his years

of practice.

His wife was a practicing doctor in the same specialisation but with lesser fame as shespent more time at home.

Dr Chalapathy’s Ghost


Then the famous doctor died in an air crash.

The family was shattered and patients were worried about further treatment.

Every patient wondered how Dr Chalapathy would have treated them vs Dr Mrs Chalapathy.



This is when Dr Mrs Chalapathy created the ghost of Dr Chalapathy.

She had all records of patients maintained

during Dr Chalapathy’s period entered into

a new MedWizard program.



Luckily she remembered some of the

unstructured observations of important

cases as they had often discussed together.

Everytime a new patient came, she would enter the main observations and it would match patterns with a previous patient in the system.

Her patients started coming back, they knew that

Dr Chalapathy’s ghost was still around…



Knowledge Management

• Data mining of past clinical records.

• Second opinions from doctors.

• Continuing education of doctors.

“IT need not create new knowledge but can build processes for sharing that can make expertise ever lasting”



“IT has to work within the limitations of infrastructure and yet deliver far reaching impact”

“IT need not create new knowledge but can build processes for sharing that can make expertise ever lasting”

“With a better understanding of the human situation, IT can really make a difference!!

“IT makes progress and produces meaningful results only when IT addresses the human situation”

Lessons from the stories


Thank You

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