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| BANGKOK GENERAL HOSPITAL |
| Business Segment
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| Healthcare. |
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| About the Client |
Bangkok Hospital is one of the biggest hospitals in Thailand, which provides tertiary healthcare. Today Bangkok Hospital has more than 400 full-time & consultant physicians and 600 nurses. Continuous development and investment in technology, medical expertise and supporting facilities have contributed to the hospital's current status, ranking it amongst top medical institutions in Southeast Asia.
Hutchison CAT Wireless Multimedia a joint venture with the Communications Authority of Thailand is providing service for 800 MHz CDMA cellular services in the Greater Bangkok Area and Central Thailand. |
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| Problem Areas |
| Bangkok hospital with large number of patients and physicians was increasingly becoming difficult to |
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Communicate with mobile physicians |
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Consulting the mobile physicians for medical advise |
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Accessing the hospital database by the physician for patient history |
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Advise by the Physician to the nursing staff for remedial medical advise for the critical patients. |
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| Vision for the desired solution |
| Establish communication between the hospital and the physician to ensure prompt and optimum medical care to patient. |
| How Indus solved/addressed the problem areas |
Hutchison Wireless identified Indus through its local partner to develop the communication application between the hospital and physician using CDMA technology provided by Hutchison. Indus developed an ASP solution, which will integrate hospital database with wireless PDA.
This would facilitate the physician to examine the patient visit history to the hospital and his other treatment and drug allergy details on his wireless hand held wherever and whenever needed. Can also view the patient personal details, drug allergy or can see a particular visit details by selecting episode number from a list of episode details. |
| Results |
| Following the successful implementation of the application the Hospital benefited by |
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Strengthened patient’s trust in the hospital and the physician |
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Constant medical advise from the physician |
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Increase the reach of the nursing staff to the physician |
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