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The first National Resource Centre for EHR Standards(NRCeS) users’ meet showcases the increasing pace of EHR standards adoption in India

The NRCeS and CDAC organized the first Users’ meet for all the stakeholders and professionals working in the area of EHR standards adoption from across the country. The initiative was to bring together all the stakeholders to share their experiences with EHR standards adoption and create a platform to collaborate in the future.

The meet had a mix of representatives from the different sides of the adoption spectrum that included the government officials, doctors, hospitals, technology companies and professionals. The forum was an informal discussion where representatives from each of the areas presented details of their work, level and success in standards adoption and the problems that they are facing.

HealtheLife was represented by Dileep. The meeting was a very heartening experience as we realized that our understanding of the standards and the extent of adoption that we have been able to achieve puts us among the leaders. Among the large number of participants, HealtheLife was the only company working on standards adoption for healthcare practices other than Allopathy, which again makes us a pioneer innovating new use cases for EHR standards adoption.

The intent of the meet was for the CDAC and NRCeS representatives to collate the discussions and observations made by the participants and present to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare(MOHFW) for their suitable action.

The meet had a very good attendance with participants travelling from all over India to be in Pune for the day and showed the commitment of the community in ensuring that EHR standards are adopted as per the vision of the Government of India. The meeting highlighted the high levels of enthusiasm and encouraging success so far and the long journey ahead for the community. We could learn some best practices that others have adopted and hope to use it to further improve the usability of our solutions.

Another takeaway from the meet was the initiatives that are happening under AYUSH ministry to create an Ayurveda extension to SNOMED CT and their commitment to bringing EHR standards adoption in the AYUSH Sector. This again validates the direction that HealtheLife has taken with AyushEHR.

As part of our commitment to this great community, we plan to publish a series of articles analysing the standards and explaining the key concepts in a simplified language that can be understood by a wider audience. Please come back once in a while to explore our blog.

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New Government Schemes & initiatives indicate a very important role for IT in Healthcare in India. Are your ready for the future?

Reviewing the role of Information Technology (IT) in healthcare in India, we could say that we have not been successful in achieving the fullest of our potential. We still lack the enabling role of information and communication systems in healthcare to optimize wellness management in India. If we are to look deeper, we are yet to integrate the marvels of modern communication devices and technology with Indic medication and wellness practices like Yoga, Ayurveda and Naturopathy for enhanced and personalized treatments.

However, the proposed tech-integrated initiatives from the Government of India such as Indian EHR standards, Digital Information Security in Healthcare Act (DISHA), Mental Healthcare Act 2017(NMHA) and National Health Policy 2017 appears to change things for good and arrive as a welcoming change in the healthcare sector. The Chief Information Officer of Asian Institute of Medical Sciences shared his thoughts to Elets News Network on the tech integration with medical facilities. Here, we have summarized the excerpts for you.

Mr. Lakshman shares that one of the most notable initiatives with respect to technology in healthcare has been the Electronic Health Records. In initiatives such as E-health, the Information Communication Technology (ICU) is used to deliver better healthcare to a wider audience through efficient monitoring and achieve better availability and affordability of healthcare.

He notes that the penetration of mobile devices and internet connectivity has surged over the couple of years and this is an advantage for technology to make health records of patients available through messages, call or web-based services. The scheme comes with an intention to pave way for the accessibility of online health records, health consultation, medicine supply-chain management and patient information exchange. The Indian Government intends to roll out a unified way to manage and provide health information to hospitals, clinics and wellness practitioners in the country.

He added that the creation of an integrated health information exchange is to strengthen the development of standards compliant electronic health records for Indian citizens and ensure interoperability of the records across the country. The benefits of such an exchange include reduced expenses on healthcare, increased health reporting, reduced paperwork, better and customized wellness agendas and treatments, pan-Indian accessibility of health data, seamless deployment of healthcare services and more.

Mr. Lakshman also brought out the role of Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Yoga and other alternative medicines in Indian healthcare. He stated that there has been a paradigm shift in the way healthcare and wellness is perceived. With increased stress due to work, current lifestyle and lack of exercise, there is a dire need for better and optimized healthcare services in India. Today, it is not just about curative treatment agendas but preventive wellness practices. That is where AYUSH comes into action.

AyushEHR from HealtheLife

At HealtheLife, we believe that it we can pave way for better health and wellness agendas for patients and individuals by integrating electronic health records with AYUSH practices. More than being an alternative medicine, AYUSH can help in the better diagnosis and treatment of ailments and diseases with the integration to individuals’ electronic health records.

Spas, wellness resorts, Ayurveda and Naturopathy clinics can now make use of patient data to offer better treatments and offer tailored patient care. With the government recognizing the role of electronic health records and coming up with tech integration schemes, it would be the right time to leverage the potential of electronic health records for AYUSH wellness practices using AyushEHR. Talk to us to know how we can help you.

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New Internal Notes & Observations module in AyushEHR R 1.3.4

We are excited to announce the wider availability of Internal notes/observations module in our latest 1.3.4 release of AyushEHR. This module is designed on the lines of a social media wall and is designed to be used as an unstructured summary of the customers. This module is purely for the internal use of the organization and is not part of the EHR of the customer.

During guest interaction from enquiry to episode completion, staff are required to make notes, observations, requests and feedbacks about a customer at different times. These may be received by email, on paper, verbally and also inferred by the staff as they work with the customer. Such details, which are very important during the care process, often remain in separate silos and are often not available at the required time.

Notes/observations module is designed to aggregate, tag(#tags and userTags) and make available contextually in a structured way to help users provide better care. Users are able to view, sort and filter the notes/observations easily so that appropriate actions can be taken at the right time.

With this, AyushEHR brings another very useful tool for the Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy care community. We believe that by properly leveraging this module, the practitioners should be able to take the healthcare experience that they provide a few notches up the ladder.

For more details, please review the full AyushEHR capability or contact us to get a free demo account. You may also read more about AyushEHR.

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AyushEHR Software Solution for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy @Advantage Healthcare 2017

Ayush EHR our Solution for Ayurvedic, Yoga and Naturopathy Practitioners was demonstrated during the recently concluded Advantage Healthcare Event from October 12 to 14 2017, at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre. The FICCI event was focused on accelerating the growth of Medical Value Travel from current 15% to 25% to make it a 9 Billion USD industry by 2020.

The Exhibitors at the event included multi-specialty hospitals, medical value travel operators, Ayurvedic, Yoga and Naturopathy Centres and Government Agencies such as AYUSH, Tourism and NABH.

We connected with AYUSH practitioners who visited and exhibited and invited them for a demo of our offering. We received positive feedback and will follow-up in the coming weeks. A second segment that we connected were the Medical Value Travel Operators, there was key interest from multiple players in the segment to move up the value chain by offering EHR based service to their customers. The third segment of players we met were companies offering health care services starting from market place to connect individuals to wellness providers to IOT based home care solutions. Health information management using our standards aligned, inter-operable EHR.Network platform was explored.

Overall in spite of the heavy rains in Bengaluru, we were heartened by the footfall and interest shown by visitors to our booth. We have generate good leads and hope to get early customers for our AYUSH EHR.

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Healthelife to exhibit at Advantage Healthcare 2017 on Oct 12 to 14

We will be participating in the Advantage Healthcare 2017 on Oct 12 to 14. We are part of the Startup Karnataka team and will be displaying at Table #2 in the Startup Pavilion, Hall 2.

Consistent with our plan of business, we will again be focusing on the AYUSH EHR in this event as well. The solution has matured quite a bit since we first demonstrated in Elevate100 and is ready for live deployment.

Current functionality covers the main guest centric workflow from information gathering, care process and post discharge engagement and will help streamline information sharing and process efficiency inside the organizations.

We invite all AYUSH providers and healthcare partners to visit us. For one-on-one meetings please contact us.

You can visit our website for more information on AYUSH EHR

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Healthelife awarded runner up in Elevate100 event by Karnataka government

We are very happy to share news of our participation in Elevate 100. After an initial screening round on Aug 5th we reached the final 250 from an initial 1700 applications. The guidelines provided for presenting to the grand jury helped structure our thoughts and led to multiple rounds of constructive internal meetings.

The final pitch to the grand jury was on Aug 29th. The questions from the jury on our market approach was very useful and it made us internalize that for a startup focus on a select market segment was critical.

We are upbeat about our participation in Elevate 100 and look forward to be part of upcoming initiatives from the Government of Karnataka and Government of India.

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Healthelife exhibits it’s AYUSH EHR at Elevate100 demo pod – 29th-30th August 2017

We were selected to exhibit at the Demo pod at Elevate 100 on Aug 29th and 30th.

In the stall, we focused on demonstrating our AYUSH EHR solution and finding technology partners from the Healthcare sector for our EHR.NETWORK Platform. We had a very good footfall and were able to generate some very good leads from the event. Our young team of developers also got a first hand experience to meet potential customers and evangelize our offering.

The feedback from visitors to our pod was very positive and further validated our ideas. Based on the feedback received from many people who visited us, we have started work on EHR.STORE, the personal EHR store for individuals. We plan to make EHR.STORE widely available in the next 2-3 months so that individuals can start storing their health data on our EHR.NETWORK platform.

We also received interest from investors and incubation centres such as Sandbox by Deshpande foundation. Exploratory discussions are on with many to identify possible engagements.

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Healthelife closes IRS 90 lakh seed funding to cover operation expenses for the next 10 months

Standards compliant Electronic Health Records(EHR) platform

We are very happy to announce the successful completion of IRS 90 lakhs seed funding. This investment is to be used to cover the operational expenses for the next 10-12 months. We plan to deploy this fund primarily for product development and secondarily for creating market traction for our solutions. The traction that we generate using this seed fund should enable us to tap into much larger investments for growth and acceleration a year down the line.

We announced this fund raising program in November 2016 with an aim of generating 70-80 lakhs. It was offered as private placement only to known people and close associates, who had been following the company from the beginning. The overwhelming response enabled us to increase our target to 100 lakhs and in the end we ended up with a final investment of 92.5 lakhs.

The offer was formally closed by the end of January 2017 and fund collection completed by end February 2017. We have started deployment of the funds starting with the augmentation of the product team.

The product team is projected to grow from the current 10 full time + 4 interns to 15-20 full time employees, with the main addition happening in the JAVA backed. Market outreach is another area of focus and the progress over the past couple of months have been very +ve. Apart from the in house commercial offerings, we have also making inroads in to the social and public health areas, thanks to associations with EHRC and other healthcare professionals active in the public health domain.

We thank all our investors and well wishers for their support and trust and assure you that we would do our best to live up to your expectations. The next 12 months will be crucial for the company and going by the progress so far, we are very upbeat.