“ICT has been widely used in healthcare industry for last one decade in specific and has played a major role in the healthcare sector. Some technologies used currently include electronic health record, hospital management and information system, picture archiving and communication system generally used as PAX which is used for archiving and retrieval of all the digital imaging system and bar coding. One thing which is of utmost importance is telemedicine and telehealth. Webel is working on these aspects in a big way. As a state nodal agency, we are one of the few states which are implementing the National Optic Fiber Network (NOFN) project and Webel will be the implementing agency. The benefit of this would be once we have rolled out the optic fiber network till the gram panchayat level with huge bandwidth and network available, the possibility of telemedicine would be enormous.”
