Absence of online tool hits hospital operations hard

The absence of HMIS has added to the woes of lakhs of patients who visit public medical colleges, and the staffers are forced to work manually.

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Mumbai: Day-to-day operations at the state's 16 medical colleges and hospitals continue to be severely disrupted because of the unavailability of the online tool for registration and uploading of patient treatment data. Nearly four months since the Health Management Information System (HMIS) was abruptly disconnected in the middle of the night, the medical education department has failed to find an alternative.

The absence of HMIS has added to the woes of lakhs of patients who visit public medical colleges, and the staffers are forced to work manually.