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Intel unveils e-health project

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Intel in collaboration with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India has announced the launch of e-health projects in Tamil Nadu, to transform healthcare in rural India.

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The health projects, starting in Tamil Nadu, is an extension of the Intel World Ahead Program, a global initiative to provide people in developing countries with the benefits of faster access to information and communications technology (ICT), Intel said in a statement.

Intel had deployed its first remote health programs in a digital village pilot in Baramati, a small town about 120 kilometers from Pune. The e-health projects would be deployed across Tamil Nadu and the country. It includes a tele-health program for community hospitals and a school health-monitoring system, Intel statement added.

“Applying technology in pioneering ways can help increase access to healthcare and improve quality of care for people everywhere,” said Craig Barrett, chairman, Intel who also chairs the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development.

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“We’ve seen how technology has enhanced people’s lives in Baramati, and look forward to seeing this replicated on a larger scale across Tamil Nadu and the rest of the country,” he added.

“Digital health solutions are the most appropriate tools for achieving our objective of providing health care to the poorest citizens living in the remote areas of our country,” said Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, India.

“We are confident that these solutions that we’re implementing here can be a model for developing communities worldwide, and will also help us to reduce disease burden on our healthy citizens – poor or rich,” Ramadoss added.

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During his visit to Tindivanam, a town in Tamil Nadu, Barrett participated in the inauguration of a tele-health pilot project at Tindivanam Taluk Hospital, a 100-plus bed facility serving a taluk of more than 210,000 people. The pilot is being driven by Bangalore’s Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital and Chennai’ Sankara Nethralaya hospital, as well as Indian-based companies Microsense, S.N. Informatics and Tata Consultancy Services.

The web-based Health Referral System aims to provide improved and cost-effective access to high-quality healthcare and is hosted on TCS’ WebHealthCentral portal.

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