HPE eHealth Centers facilitate over one million patient visits in India

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that its eHealth Centers (eHCs) have collectively facilitated over 1 million patient visits across India. Offering a digital healthcare solution, the vast eHC network offers remote diagnoses free of charge in underserved communities, reaffirming HPE’s long-term commitment to the country and its mission to advance the way people live and work.

Many Indian citizens lack access to primary healthcare services, which are critical to reducing mortality rates from chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Recognizing the significant role of technology in improving access and effectiveness of primary healthcare in underserved areas, HPE launched its eHC initiative in 2012. 

The eHCs, designed to fit and deploy within a standard shipping container, connect patients with highly skilled medics. These centers also combine online training materials for remote healthcare workers with diagnostic tools that capture the patients’ vital statistics on a cloud-based application. Additionally, by leveraging data analytics, the eHCs facilitate health monitoring and management by identifying disease patterns in local communities.

In support of the government’s target of making India TB-free by 2025, HPE signed the USAID TB pledge. Under this pledge, the eHCs will screen symptomatic patients and target the “Missing TB” cases who carry the disease and go undiagnosed. The diagnosed patients will be referred to the nearest government recognized TB treatment center. The eHCs will provide free diagnostic services to over 50,000 TB patients by July 2020.

Currently, there are over 130 eHCs deployed across 18 states in the country. To further increase the reach of affordable and personalized healthcare services, HPE will set-up additional eHCs across the country. The success of eHCs in India has resulted in HPE launching such facilities in Bhutan and the Philippines.

HPE’s commitment to further improving global access to healthcare helped inspire the launch of Tech Impact 2030 last year. Along with the World Economic Forum, HPE announced the initiative focused on bringing together technology, industry and government to power meaningful change by the year 2030. 

Under this initiative, HPE introduced a challenge to enable real-time, personalized medical care for patients by 2030. Looking forward, HPE envisions emerging technology to radically improve the cost, speed and accuracy of medical research and patient care.

“At HPE, we believe technology can play a significant role in addressing rapidly-evolving healthcare needs. Being a purpose-driven organization, we strive to develop innovative models such as eHCs to make our world better,” said Som Satsangi, MD – India, HPE. “The one million eHC patient visits is a significant milestone in reaffirming our commitment to build a culture of innovation that positively impacts local communities across the country.”

QliqSOFT post-acute visit management app offers business-enhancing delivery-data for hospice and home healthcare agencies

QliqSOFT has launched on Monday VisitPath, its home health nurse distress notification-enabled mobile care-delivery app designed to provide hospice and post-acute business administration with data that improves business and patient outcomes. Additionally, Visit Path puts safety in the hands of the home health nurse. 

The Visit Path web-based administrator’s dashboard integrates with GPS-enabled smart devices to ensure patient care delivery is optimized, on time and recorded. This, along with the ability to manage unscheduled and after-hours visits, improves patient and home health nurse satisfaction, patient outcomes, billing accuracy and a digital record that prevents ensures government reimbursements are never penalized.

As a real-time, GPS-enabled care management delivery solution, Visit Path verifies where and when a hospice or home health field nurse is on duty, begins service for a client, when they complete service and when they are off duty. This verification of service is the basis for accurate, compliant billing. The administrator's dashboard is a window into ROI.

With a focus on home health, hospice, and other post-acute verticals, QliqSOFT is excited to share the news of Visit Path to coincide with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) annual Interdisciplinary Conference.

“This app is a good solution for hospice and home healthcare agencies that want more insight into their care delivery data to reduce costs and improve their business outcomes," says QliqSOFT founder and CEO Krishna Kurapati. “Additionally, the distress notification provides safety and security for nurses while visiting homes and if they should run into trouble while in transit between visits.”

“We wanted to provide hospice and home healthcare agencies with a product that gives them real-time knowledge of completed patient visits activity to help them better manage their field staff,” Krishna added.