Max Healthcare (MHC) and Perot Systems have signed a 10-year agreement, worth about INR900m, under which Perot will provide IT outsourcing (ITO) and electronic health records (EHR) implementation for MHC.
Under the agreement, Perot Systems will provide MHC with infrastructure management capabilities, data hosting, infrastructure support, project management support, help desk support and the implementation and clinical adoption of an EHR system using VistA software, an open source software platform developed by the US Department of Veterans Affairs for healthcare facilities.
In addition, the integrated Hospital Information System (HIS) and EHR will allow access to complete patient information across MHC.
Anurag Jain, president of applications & process solutions group and managing director of Asia-Pacific for Perot Systems, said: We expect that this new EHR system will enable Max Healthcare to improve the quality of care at the point of care by not only reducing administrative delays, but improving the availability and delivery of the right information for clinicians including nursing care.”
Pervez Ahmed, CEO and MD of Max Healthcare, said: Max Healthcare is striving to revolutionise healthcare delivery in India. In this effort, we were searching for a company with broad healthcare experience that could assume the responsibilities for our IT solutions and implement an EHR that would comply with evidence-based medicine and clinical best practice standards, ensuring quality of patient care. Perot Systems is that company.”
