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IT in Neonatology

Dr.Tushar Dashora,
Consultant Neonatologist,
MBBS (Bom.)
M.D. (Pediatrics)
Fellowship in Neonatology (AIMS)
Lets go down the nostalgia trip!!!

Dr.Virginia Apgar

Dr.Pierre Budin
Neonatology-The transition
Change is inevitable!!!
We have to make a choice now, either we can take
advantage of the change or allow the change to
take advantage of us!!!
IT-the world scene
 Hi-tech NICUs
 Data warehousing
 NETS
 Tele-Medicine
 Innovative solutions
 Electronic medical
records
 Smart calculators
IT-The India scene!!!
Achievements

 IT & ITES growth


 Low cost
 Govt. support
Challenges
 NRHM/Unicef /WHO
 9% GDP
 Poor infrastructure
 22% Healthcare IT
 Traditional taboos
 22,000 medical
 Lack of education graduates & >6000 post
 Myths & superstitions graduates /yr.
 Technological handicap  Hot favourite of FIIs.
 Lack of the right attitude
Regionalisation of Perinatal care
 Level-I-NICU
1940 (at village/PHC 2007
level)

 Level-II-NICU
(at city/taluk or
districe level)

 Level-III-NICU
(at Metro/big
city/Tertiary
referral centre)
The Million dollar question!!!
 How can IT help all the stakeholders
in Neonatology?

Neonatologist

State/country Hospital/NICU

Neonate
To share a few…
DMR
Tele-medicine ERP

Calculators Baby tagging

R&D E-commerce

Websites
IT & ITES, What next?

 IT applications.
 IT enabled services & their uses.
 Newborn emergency transport
systems.
 Telemedicine solutions
 Baby tagging solutions
 Hospital management solutions
IT applications
 Baby tagging solutions.
 Baby identification systems.
 Baby monitoring solutions.
 Centralized monitoring systems.
 Electronic baby records.
 Smart cards, RFID cards, baby reco
 Data processing, better research, better
healthcare & improvised quality of life.
The global i-village
 Consult any patient ,anywhere any
time!!!
 NICU-NET the big blog.
 Consult overseas patients.
 Medico-legal consultations.
 Medical tourism.
 Smart IT solutions.
Uses of Information Technology
 Computerized Physician  Internet and World-Wide-
Order Entry (CPOE) Web
 Databases and Discharge  Med Line
Summaries  Monitoring
 Decision Support Systems  Parenteral Nutrition
 Education  Pulmonary Function
 Electronic Medical Record  Surveys and Overviews
 Ethical and Legal Issues  Telemedicine
 Handheld Devices  Ventilator Management
 Imaging
Benefits for the Neonatologist
 Easy access.
 Less time consumed.
 Records arranged.
 Easy recompilation.
 Global viewer ship
 Improved quality of life.
 Improved patient care.
 Tech savvy!!!
 MORE MONEY!!!
Uses for the Neonatologist..

 Repository
 American Academy of Pediatrics
Policy Statements and  Jablonski's Multiple
Guidelines Congenital Anomaly/Mental
Retardation Database
 Cochrane Collaboration Home
Page  Medicine in Quotations On-
Line
 Cochrane Neonatal Systematic
Reviews at NICHD  MedLine at NLM (PubMed)
 Cochrane Reviews - Free  MedPNational Center for
Abstract Search Health Statistics
 Drug InfoBase at DocMD.COM  National Guidelines
Clearinghouse
 Geneva Foundation for Medical
Education and Research -  Neonatologist and
Guidelines Perinatologist Directory (AAP
members only)
 Geneva Foundation for Medical
Education and Research - Image  ix Medical Image Database
Uses/Resources for the Neonatologist
(contd…)
 NeoPix Imaging Resource
 On-Line Images from the History of Medicine
(NLM)
 On-Line Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
 Paediapedia -- Imaging Encyclopedia of Pediatric
Disease
 PediatricRadiology.Com
 Pediatric Pathology at Cornell
 Pediatric - Perinatal Pathology -Image Database
 Perinatal Statistics (March of Dimes)
 PubMed MedLine at NLM
 Urbana Atlas of Pathology
 WebPath Pathology Images, Perinatal
 WHO Health Statistics
 WHO Library Search
What the future holds?
What is available?
Thanks

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