Authors : Mohammad Taha Khan, Shamimul Qamar and Ripu Ranjan
Abstract: There are numbers of challenges in modern healthcare industry of developing countries such as India. The main challenge for a healthcare organization is to provide quality care using affordable pricing strategy. High quality care incorporates effective treatment and on time care to patients. Information and communication technology can play an important role in improving these services by managing the resources efficiently since they can help in enhancing organizational productivity and performance. Now a days, ICT plays a key role in managing the patient records, information sharing and processing the data to get useful information. A low cost, well managed HMIS can overcome the financial limitations. The emergence of Open Source Software has presented a better opportunity for developing countries. This study aims at investigating the impact of using Open Source Software on the Indian healthcare industry and identifying its potential advantages and disadvantages along with the complexities in its use. Furthermore, it aims at analysing the performance of open source customized HMIS for client hospitals in India. Herein, CARE2X is identified as Open Source Software which is customized for Indian hospitals. CARE2X is one of the most popular open source healthcare systems released under general public license GPL v2.0. CARE2X has been customized and deployed at histology and cytology pathology department of two premiere client hospitals in India.
Mohammad Taha Khan, Shamimul Qamar and Ripu Ranjan, 2017. Adaptation of Open Source Software for Healthcare in India: Case of CARE2X. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 2603-2612.