E-Sanjeev's app OPD started in Gujarat, patients will get treatment sitting at home
- This e-Sanjeev's OPD app will reduce the burden of patients on hospitals
- Patients living in villages will get treatment at home through this app
A state-wide e-Sanjeev mobile app has been launched in Gujarat to reduce the burden of OPD of patients in hospitals and clinics and to provide free in-home treatment to the people. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel inaugurated E-Sanjeev's OPD through video conferencing from Gandhinagar. The Chief Minister described this e-Sanjeev as an excellent means of providing free treatment at government hospitals and health centers along with prescribing home remedies for common ailments to the OPD patient during the Korona era. He said that this innovative method of getting home-based drug treatment is a timely right job at the right time during the transition to corona. Now with this e-Sanjeev's OPD, our culture of turning disaster into opportunity has become more evident.
E-Sanjeev's app features two-way video calling::
The feature of two-way video calling in this mobile app will result in more interaction between the patient and the doctor. Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said that in the e-age, just like financial transactions, services including city-metropolitan tax are available online, now this service of public health and well-being will also be available at home with one click. Nitinbhai Patel added that patients living in villages can be treated and diagnosed at home through this app. They will be relieved from the situation of having to come to CHC / PHC or hospital for treatment. Through this app, a system has been developed so that doctors can make a proper diagnosis and, if necessary, get the opinion of a specialist doctor and treat him according to his advice. This phone diagnostic service is a leading example of the use of modern technology in the field of health and telemedicine.
Key features of this citizen friendly web-based National Teleconsultation Service (eSanjeevaniOPD) are:
- Patient registration
- Family member registration
- Institutional registration (like correctional facilities, Sr. Citizen Homes, Orphanages etc.)
- Queue Management
- Video Consultation with a Doctor
- Instant messaging (text-based)
- ePrescription
- SMS Notifications
- Serviced by Doctors employed
Registration:
- User verifies his/her mobile no. using OTP
- Fills Patient Registration Form
- eSanjeevaniOPD assigns a Patient ID
- Token:
- User requests a token for consultation
- Uploads health records, if any
- User receives Patient ID & Token through SMS
- Login:
- Closer to the turn eSanjeevaniOPD sends a SMS notification asking user to login
- User logs in using Patient ID
- Patient enters the clinic and is placed at the top of the prevailing queue. If there's no queue you'll be placed at serial no. 1
- Wait:
- eSanjeevaniOPD assigns a doctor to the patient (time interval depends on the length of the queue)
- As the doctor is assigned to the patient “CALL NOW” button gets activated
- User is required to click “CALL NOW” button within 120 seconds8
- Upon clicking “CALL NOW” within 10 seconds the doctor shows up in video
Consultation:
- -Patient consults the doctor
- -During the consultation doctor has an access to the patient’s health records (if uploaded)
- ePrescription:
- -During the consultation, doctor prepares an electronic prescription (ePrescription)
- -At the top of the consultation doctor sends the ePrescription and closes the decision
- -ePrescription shows abreast of patient’s end.
- -Patient logs out after saving/printing the received ePrescription
