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Taking healthcare IT seriously

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BANGALORE, INDIA: iSOFT, an IBA Health Company, is probably one the pioneers in offering applications, services, and technology backbones focused at the healthcare sector worldwide.

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Bangalore and Chennai are the biggest R&D hubs for two distinct platforms for healthcare applications by the company.

While the Bangalore center is dedicated to creating applications based on Oracle as a platform and Java for web-based applications, the Chennai center is focused on LORENZO, a platform developed by iSOFT towards the aim of a transformational SOA based healthcare model.

LORENZO is based on Microsoft SQL, and is offered as an application framework as well as Software as a Service (SaaS) ideally for hospital groups that need to consolidate and have a common access point for their data.

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The framework allows hospital groups and healthcare cities to use LORENZO end-to-end to streamline their hospital processes, access patient data, and keep a tab on all concerned departments of the hospital.

Currently, 1600 Health and IT Professionals are working in the two development centers in India including about 300 dedicated to implementation and support. This number according to Martin Wilkinson, CIO, IBA Health, of which iSOFT is a subsidiary, is set to go up by about 250 specialists by July of 2009.

On the unique challenges of markets like India in the Asia pacific region, he illustrated"

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“We recently came across a hospital in Taiwan that serviced 20,000 out patients a day. Thought not of the same degree, most countries in Asia have relatively poor public health systems and the volume of patients is higher, but the role the IT plays is more to do with the basic healthcare systems and not necessarily the more complex procedures.”

He added: “This is precisely why we have more hospitals using iHIS and we would ideally like to see more hospital groups embracing LORENZO based services and products.”

iSOFT, incidentally is a client of Verizon, and is instrumental in streamlining its business processes and laying down roadmaps for growth, both in terms of more customers and better technologies to address the unique needs of the continent, with specific emphasis on India.

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