About HMIS IN Railways

The HMIS in Railways has been developed by Indian Railways in coordination with RailTel Corporation Limited.

Objective

To provide a single window of clearance of hospital administration activity such as clinical, diagnostics, pharmacy, examinations, industrial health etc.

The primary objectives of envisaged solution are

• Effectively manage all the health facilities & its resources
• Monitor performance of hospitals across the administrative channel
• Impart quality health care services to its beneficiaries
• Improve the patient turn-around time
• Generate and maintain EMR (electronic medical records) of all patients

• The HMIS will bring a paradigm shift in the health care systems maintained by Indian Railways.
• The new system will improve the quality of health services and aid in utilization of resources in a transparent manner.
• Patients waiting time at the hospitals will be minimized and medical records will be available to the team of doctors at all the times.
• Implementation of HMIS will develop good amount of data (like Electronic Medical Records) and will help the medical fraternity not only in curative procedures but also preventive medical systems.
• It is expected to economize the drug management and better utilization of resource management.