Express Healthcare speaks to Rupesh Pandey, Director, RSG Infotech to understand how a hospital can upgrade its IT infrastructure in a cost-effective manner
Do you feel that IT solutions for healthcare in India has come of age?
There are very few IT partners in the healthcare industry who can provide hospitals with the kind of IT support that they require. There are some big brothers of the industry. However, these do not provide hospitals with solutions at affordable rates.
What are the important aspects that need to be considered while upgrading a hospital with IT infrastructure?
Aspects to be considered while upgradation differ from department to department. For example, the demand for IT infrastructure in a cardiology department will differ from radiology and a from a cath lab to a laboratory. So basically, it all depends on the demand of the department and the kind of technology that is being installed.
How can this be done in a cost-effective way? What is the role of RSG Infotech in doing so?
There are many important aspects that need to be considered, especially because each department of a hospital has different needs. For example, take the radiology department which needs monitors that can provide the radiologists and the technicians with good imaging pictures.
So, our role here is to check on the existing monitors and IT infrastructure present in the department to see if these can be upgraded to a level that can provide better images. Upgrading the existing endoscopy SD system with the right kind of HD scaler and professional monitors will help hospitals to save cost on buying new equipment.
What is unique about these solutions?
We specialise in providing solutions in a cost effective manner. Moreover, in the Western countries we have noted a trend wherein hospitals are getting rid of medical films in order to stop burdening the ecosystem. Also, the cost of disposing medical films is high. Therefore, people in the West are avoiding the usage of medical films.
Now we also have some solutions for the same. We have DICOMJet software and printer solutions that give out DICOM paper print. This reduces costs while increasing capabilities within radiography suites. With our solutions, radiology departments can save time and money while expediting the sharing of exam results among medical teams and with patients.
Some of the unique features of the printers:
- Seamless integration in any DICOM network
- In small imaging centre, DICOMJet can be coupled even with a single modality supporting DICOM print
- Dramatic cost reduction
- Near-diagnostic print quality
- Easy filing, storage, shipping and disposal of paper printouts
- Environment-friendly
Apart from this we have monitors that provide high resolution, high quality and ranging from 19” Desktop monitor upto 65″ Large Display.
What are your future plans?
In the future, we would like to help more hospitals who are looking at upgrading their hospital with IT solutions in a cost effective way.
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