Question : Railway Health System Project

(a) whether the Railways proposes to bring the entire Railway Health System on a single architecture to provide faster, seamless and hassle-free healthcare to its beneficiaries;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) the names of the agencies likely to be assigned this project and the criteria fixed for identification and selection of agencies for the said purpose;

(d) the number of railway hospitals and beneficiaries likely to be digitized; and

(e) the details of the expenditure likely to be incurred and the time by which the entire work on this project is likely to be completed?

MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, COMMUNICATIONS AND
ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

(SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a) to (e): Yes, Sir. Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) has been implemented on Railways Hospitals with RailTel Corporation of India Limited, a PSU under Ministry of Railways as executing agency. The e-Sushruta HMIS Software of C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) has been deployed for the same.

The facility is for all Railway Hospitals and Health Units over Indian Railways and eligible Railway Medical beneficiaries.

The sanctioned estimate of Pan-India Railway implementation work of HMIS is ?63.28 Crore.
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