eGovernments Foundation and Google Cloud Collaborate to Transform Secondary Care Management across the District Hospitals of Nagaland

Google Cloud and eGovernments Foundation on with the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare Govt. of Nagaland, launched TeleICU hub successful the beingness of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland, Shri Neiphiu Rio astatine Naga Hospital Authority, Kohima, India.

The 10BedICU programme is managed by the eGovernments Foundation. The programme was conceived during the pandemic to span the gaps successful captious healthcare services successful India. The nonsubjective of the 10BedICU programme is to make a hub-and-spoke exemplary wherever specialists from aesculapian colleges negociate the 10BedICUs successful distant territory hospitals that are connected to a TeleICU Hub. In Nagaland, the TeleICU hub is connected to 12 territory hospitals crossed the state.

Technology is the backbone of the 10BedICU program. Efficient and streamlined diligent attraction astatine each 10BedICU is made imaginable by eGovernments Foundation’s CARE platform, a cloud-based open-source diligent absorption tool, arsenic good arsenic astute capableness absorption bundle and diligent absorption software. These signifier a TeleICU module that runs connected Google Cloud’s secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure and tin beryllium seamlessly accessed successful real-time by aesculapian professionals astatine the TeleICU hub successful Naga Hospital Authority and the connected spoke hospitals.

The TeleICU hub astatine Naga Hospital Authority, Kohima (NHAK) is besides equipped with ample 4K monitors and desktops portion the peripheral 10BedICUs are equipped with desktops, server, high-resolution cameras, and aesculapian devices connected via LAN. In Nagaland, the 10bedICU programme volition screen 12 territory hospitals.

“At Google Cloud, we are committed to moving with healthcare providers to marque healthcare equitable and accessible. Technological advancements volition play a captious relation successful providing diligent attraction and services specially successful hospitals that are remotely located. We are delighted to enactment with the eGov squad to bring ICU services to patients successful distant areas,” said Bikram Singh Bedi, managing director, Google Cloud India.

Srikanth Nadhamuni, Chairman, 10BedICU Project and Managing Trustee, eGovernments Foundation said, “We are excited to spouse with Google Cloud which is enabling 10BedICU and the TeleICU hub to physique capableness and diligent absorption for the distant ICU service. The 10BedICU is being implemented successful 8 states, including Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur, Assam, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Meghalaya. Under this program, we person acceptable up 200 ICU units crossed the task states. The Tele-ICU Hub and spoke exemplary is showing promising signs of evolving into a translation healthcare model, particularly successful assets constraint and distant locations.”