It is extremely difficult for Doctors to have patients follow up visit details entered into the EMR due to the limited time available to see a patient, especially in public funded hospitals. Typically a doctor spends less than 2 minutes on a patient, during which time he has to listen to patients complaints, formulate a diagnosis & treatment plan and write down the notes in the patients clinic card as well as in the hospital record (EMR etc). It is precisely for this reason that computerisation of clinics has been cursory at best. By innovative use of Samsung tablet (with stylus) and intuitive software, it is now possible for clinicians to see the scheduled appointments for the day, individual patients previous hospital records, take clinical photographs & videos with built in camera, see PACS images & lab reports, write notes & prescription on the tablet using the stylus and get print out of the ‘handwritten’ notes for the patient- all from the convenience of a single device. This has the potential to revolutionize delivery of services in clinics all over India

1. IT Innovation @ Trauma Centre Clinics
Dr Deepak Agrawal
Head, IT
JPNATC Trauma Centre, AIIMS
New Delhi

2. BACKGROUND
• Computerisation of clinics
in public funded
(Government) hospitals has
been cursory at best.

3. Background
• Typically a doctor spends less than 2 minutes
on a patient, during which time he has to
listen to patients complaints, formulate a
diagnosis & treatment plan and write down
the notes in the patients clinic card as well as
in the hospital record (EMR etc).

4. CLINICIANS WISHLIST FOR CLINICS
• See Scheduled Appointments
• Look up previous visits, labs, PACS images
• Avoid typing
• Take Clinical photographs, store with patients
record & retrieve at leisure
• Do all this in less than 60 seconds!

6. Solution Provider:
Automated Tablet based
Clinic(OPD) with
messaging system and
web portal
http://aiims.mcura.com
anywhere anytime access for doctors

7. 1. Patient calls call centre for appointment 2. Call centre checks Dr. schedule and
allocates a slot to patient
Appoint
ment
details
3. mCURA platform shows
appointment list to doctor when
doctor logs in the tablet app
4. Doctor retrieves patient record and
adds advice/take pics/ reviews
radiology images and assign next visit
time
5. Reminder sent to patient mobile
72 hrs – 48 hrs to fix appointment for
review

8. •Appointment schedule and sms based token
number messaging
•OPD Notes that includes Patient’s wound pictures
•Integrated PACS where Dr. can mark their
comments on a specific image slice
•Drug index access so to select drugs and review
other attributes of drugs formula
•OPD notes on their own handwriting using stylus
•Next visit entry and sms reminder to patient’s
mobile

9. Case Video