E-Sushrut
E-Shushrut is India's first large scale initiative towards an electronic medical record and is developed by the Center for Advance Computing (CDAC), Govt. of India. The project was released in 2002, but due to poor publicity much of it has not come to light.
Introduction
Hospital Information Systems (HIS) has been implemented in India since the 1990's. But these systems essentially maintained registration data only. With advent of Medical Informatics in India and explosive growth in Health Industry, the government of India had decided to replace the old HIS with this new system - e-susrut
E-Sushrut is a Hospital Management Information System based on ERP solution. This system provides an accurate electronic medical record (EMR) of patients and in real time streamlines patient care in an efficient manner. In spite of a huge potential to improve health care quality, this project did not take off. However, in the recent years there has growing effort to use information technology to improve quality of care in a rapidly growing health care sector.
Modules
Patient Care: Outpatient and Inpatient EMR, Laboratory Information System, Blood Bank, Operation Theater
Administration: Pharmacy, Kitchen, Sterile Supplies, Billing
List of clinical applications
• Provides Bar coding Interface for areas such as patient Registration, Stores, Sample collection
• Provides Machine Interfaces
• Integration with Code sets like ICD (International Classification of Diseases), SNOMED etc.
• Compliances with International Health Standards such as HL7, DICOM, LIONIC, CPT, ASTM etc.
• Portable across a variety of platforms
• User Friendly GUI interface
• Browser based front end support LINUX and WINDOWS
• Based on WINDOWS/LINUX/SOLARIS as backend
• Audit logging of transactions
• Comprehensive User Management & Security.
• Integration with PACS and Telemedicine.
Implementation
It is being implemented in major medical colleges and government hospitals across India. Some of the hospitals are:
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh
- S.M.S. Hospital, Jaipur.
- All Hospitals under Govt. of NCT Delhi
- Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute, Lucknow
- Guru Tej Bahadur Hospital, New Delhi
- Regional Cancer Center, Thiruvananthapuram
- Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram
E-Sushrut system has been used by a number of large health care organization
• SGPGI Lucknow - Since 1998 • GTBH Delhi - Since 2000 • Central Hospital, Northern Railway, New Delhi - Since 2002 • GB Pant, Port Blair – Since July 2004 • General Hospital, Chandigarh, Since January 2005 • MGIMS, Sevagram (Nagpur), Since January 2005 • IGMC, Shimla
