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Mumbai, November 10, 2020: Indian Railways with the objective of bringing hospital

management on a single architecture to prevent pilferage and making operations

seamless has entrusted RailTel Corporation of India Limited (“RailTel”) with

implementation of hospital management information system (“HMIS”) an integrated

clinical information system for its 125 health facilities and 650 polyclinics across India

for improved hospital administration and patient healthcare

The features of the software extend from customizing clinical data according to the

departments and laboratories, multi hospital feature that provide cross consultation,

seamless interface with medical and other equipment’s and the patients will have the

benefit of accessing all their medical records on their mobile device.

RailTel and Ministry of Railways have signed an MOU with regard to the modalities for

execution of the work. The open source HMIS software is to be deployed over the

cloud.

Speaking on this announcement, Indian Railway Board, Chairman VK Yadav said”

We are embracing digitization across all spheres and are continuously undergoing

change. The HMIS platform will be connected to the Unique Medical Identity System. A

Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is underway which will drive these

technological changes be it artificial intelligence, data analytics or app based services.

Our strategic relationship with RailTel has always been based on merit and they

continue to help us implement variety of projects such as the Video Surveillance

System, E-Office Services, Content on Demand,, Wi-fi across major railway stations in

India ”

Speaking on the occasion of it’s appointment, RailTel, Chairman & Managing

director, Shri Puneet Chawla said “Proof of Concept of the HMIS has already been

established by the implementation of the hospital management information system in

South Central Railway and a pan India deployment is being considered in a phased

manner. Traditional forms of record keeping has its own limitations and we believe

that the integration of technology is the only way to achieve scale, cost efficiencies,

ease of access besides other benefits.”

RailTel offers a diversified portfolio of ICT services and solutions such as MPLS- VPN,

Leased line services, TPaaS, E-Office & Data Centre Services, large network hardware

system integration, software and digital services