Large number of Small and Mid size Hospitals in India Lack The Basic Hospital Information & Management System

The platform for Small and Mid size hosptials

Small and mid size hospitals today are under tremendous pressure – Too much patient load, not enough resources and a host of information technology issues. They are now looking for ways to make their lives easier without compromising on patient care. MetahOS Healthcare Operating System – Designed by doctors for doctors aims to do exactly that! Today’s healthcare system is heavily dependent on IT and the clinical staff have little say in the way their medical practice runs. It is not uncommon to see dedicated specialist clinicians having to struggle with basic computer administration, software maintenance and internet connectivity. This puts a huge strain on them in their day job, which is already stressful by itself. Smaller hospitals spend most of their revenue on expensive proprietary systems that don’t scale well.

 

Healthcare is an evolving sector

The middle class population is moving towards mid-sized cities with better lifestyle factors like in India region. This gives rise to demand for scalable technology solutions which can be used across the healthcare verticals providing efficiencies and standardisation at regional levels. Having said that, we have launched a Healthcare operating system which will provide a platform for small & mid sized hospitals and providers to adopt and scale up their operations effectively.

In the past few years there has been an increase in the number of hospitals owned by Clinicians and Doctors. This is really good for Healthcare Industry as it has given control in the hands of the people who actually take care of patients on a daily basis. The downside to this trend is that these small and medium size hospitals lack infrastructure, technology and resources to run a hospital effectively. Now MetahOS is addressing this issue by making state of art healthcare operating system available to every clinician across India with a monthly subscription.

What is needed

The small and mid size hospitals need a convenient and simple way to manage their healthcare team, patients, assets all in one place. Many hospitals use paper workflows which result in huge losses of revenue and business opportunities.

At m16labs, we’re excited to announce the launch of our Early Access Program for Meta hOS (Healthcare Operating System). We believe the future of healthcare is digital and cloud connected – that every patient should have a 360 degree view of his or her own health information and clinicians should have the tools they need to deliver safe, high quality, coordinated care.

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Do check out the paper on poor standard of care in small, private hospitals in Maharasthra by Padma Bhate-Deosthali, Ritu Khatri, Suchitra Wagle.

Health Information Systems are being Phased Out

The Hospital Information Systems a.k.a Health Management Information Systems in India were not built to last for Healthcare, they were ERP’s that were retrofitted to do Order Entry, these Enterprise Resource Planning systems were built for Supply Chain and Manufacturing companies and in the early Digital Transformation 1.0 during 2013 onwards the software companies modified their applications to meet Hospital IT requirements.

This got the hospitals to use the HIS, however they were just using it for order processing and billing and the rest of the features that were built without considerable Healthcare Domain left a bad after taste to Clinicians and also to the rest of the users who were not in Billing.

After working for nearly 2 decades in the US Healthcare IT and interviews with various hospitals and hospital users it was clear that Indian Healthcare IT has not evolved or rather hospitals are now scared to upgrade because of the bitter experience they have had.

The need for a Healthcare Operating System is evident in Indian Healthcare IT, as the industry battles quality of healthcare delivery, availability of trained resources.

The Meta hOS (Healthcare Operating System) built with a lot of due diligence and users feedback is expected to deliver what was lacking in the industry.