Hospitals use cloud computing technique to fight infectious diseases

Providers have volumes of data in electronic health records, but struggle with how to bring that information to bear to improve patient care.

Drawing in ever-changing patient information, and knowing what steps to take as a result, is crucial when dealing with conditions like sepsis and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which require careful and timely treatment.

Getting real-time decision support in these cases, tailored to individual patients, is what VigiLanz Corp. does. Its enterprise Software as a Service approach is just an example of how providers may be able to call on third parties to layer services on top of existing clinical systems to derive benefits.

VigiLanz takes in electronic data in real time from more than 400 hospital clients. It aggregates disparate transactional workflow and documentation data from the hospitals’ EMRs, and then analyzes it in real time. Doing so enables VigiLanz to identify clinical issues and enable organizations to react quickly.

The company has developed a rules engine that enables hospitals to individualize their responses to patient conditions as they’re identified.

Two physicians started the company in 2001 by two physicians who wanted to use data to eliminate patient risk from adverse drug events, medication errors, hospital associated infections, sepsis and other clinical conditions. For complete and original story see here

Meghraj- Government of India Cloud

Why Aadhaar is needed ?

Governments transfer money to citizens for many reasons — student scholarships, old age pensions, subsidy for LPG cylinders etc. Such transfers are plagued by the problems of diversion, duplication and falsification, and a large part of the transfers does not reach the genuine beneficiaries. How do we get over these problems?

The answer was to ‘identify’ each beneficiary by a ‘unique’ number linked to minimum biometric data. Unique number schemes were not new to the country: the income-tax department has PAN for each assessee and a credit card bears a unique number for the card holder. In 2009, the UPA government decided to introduce Aadhaar. 

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was established by an executive order and Mr Nandan Nilekani was roped in to steer the programme and the Authority. Mr Nilekani brought his tremendous knowledge of technology and proven entrepreneurship to the UIDAI. What might have otherwise turned into another lackadaisical department of the government became a trailblazer on how to design and implement a transformational scheme. After proving the technology and running successful pilots, the UIDAI began enrolling people and issuing Aadhaar in September 2010. For complete and original post see here

Citizen Privacy in the Age of Aadhaar

Aadhaar is  an immensely ambitious agenda, but how this agenda is fulfilled, and, in particular, what the consequences are for freedom in the world’s largest democracy, will depend on the fifth pillar of the new Digital India. This pillar is protection of all citizens’ right of privacy.  Here is an interesting analysis of provisions and possible consequences