Manipal Hospitals partners with FUJIFILM India to provide digitised solutions for patient diagnosis

Bengaluru: Manipal Hospitals has entered into an agreement with FUJIFILM India to leverage the latter’s digital technology for storing sensitive medical documents and images.

Under the long-term agreement, Manipal Hospitals said in a statement on Tuesday it would be provided with a large-scale Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), powered by FUJIFILM India.

“The PACS eliminates the need for manually storing, retrieving, and sending sensitive information, films, and reports,” it said.

In addition, the next-generation system will enable the storage of medical documents and images in secure off-site servers while the PACS software will ensure that such sensitive medical data can be accessed via mobile devices and workstations from anywhere in the world, the statement said.

The deployment will cover 23 hospitals and 45 Teleradiology facilities under the umbrella of Manipal Health Enterprises across the country, it was stated.

As per a recent media report in the Deccan Herald, “What we are undertaking together, increases the patient safety, increases the convenience of our doctors and helps us move further on our digitisation journey,” said Dilip Jose, managing director and chief executive of Manipal Hospitals.

The healthcare major is initiating implementation of the product from March starting in Bengaluru, following which two of its facilities will migrate to the system every month, he added.