Hinduja Hospital Awarded Best ICT Enabled Hospital in Maharashtra at the E- Maharashtra Awards

Online, May 12, 2013 (Newswire.com) - P.D.Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research Center bagged the "Best Information & Communication Technology (ICT) enabled hospital in Maharashtra" award at the e-Maharashtra awards & Healthcare Conference on 10th May, 2013, held at Taj Vivanta, President Mumbai. The award in Healthcare segment was introduced for the first time to recognize and award organizations for their initiatives taken in Maharashtra through innovative use of ICT's. The award was presented by Mr Rajesh Aggarwal, Secretary IT, Government of Maharashtra.

Mr. Joy Chakraborty, Director Administration and Mr. Mahesh Shinde, Director Information Technology (IT), received the award on behalf of Hinduja Hospital. On receiving the award Mr. Chakraborty said, "Over the last six decades Hinduja Hospital has pioneered several clinical and non-clinical practices to lead healthcare industry. During this period it has been realized that, efficient and effective healthcare delivery, needs to be supported by Information and Technology. Several initiatives have been taken by the hospital to be on the forefront of healthcare IT. PACS along with digitization of imaging records and reporting system is one amongst those initiatives taken few years back by Hinduja Hospital. This was with the intention to bring down the turnaround time of reporting and better image archival facility in imaging department of the hospital. It has resulted into significant enhancement and improvement in patient satisfaction. We are happy that this initiative has been recognized by the government at 2013 e-Maharashtra awards."

On receiving this award, Mr. Shinde said, "We thank the government of Maharashtra for appreciating our efforts as regards to the progress in the healthcare IT. Hinduja Hospital's PACS is amongst the first few in India to have PACS with voice recognition system. We firmly believe in moving ahead and taking healthcare IT to a very advanced level and provide Quality Healthcare to All, which is the mission of our hospital."

About Hinduja Hospital: Hinduja Hospital, part of the Hinduja Group, is an ultramodern tertiary care hospital with a Medical Research Centre. The world class infrastructure of the hospital has been created in association with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGM), Boston, to provide highest quality of patient care. Hinduja Hospital is the first multi-disciplinary tertiary care hospital to receive ISO 9002 Certification from KEMA of Netherlands for Quality Management System. It is also the first hospital to be honored with the IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award for 2007. This NABH (National Accreditation for Hospitals) accredited hospital is the first in SAARC countries to have a College of American Pathologists (CAP) & NABL accredited laboratory. The hospital has to its credit, the ISO 27001 certification for IT Management Systems, HACCP certification which is the apex certification for food department. Hinduja Hospital has been awarded as the best multispecialty hospital in Mumbai five times by a leading weekly magazine, was awarded as the Best Multi Specialty Hospital in India - Metro at the 2011 India Healthcare Awards and recently was awarded "Excellence in Hospital" at the Medscape India National Awards. The hospital is recognized in the international market too, it recently received "International Diamond Prize for Customer Satisfaction" by the European Society of Quality Research and "Excellence Award" for CSR project at the Asia Healthcare Management Awards, 2012. The hospital was recently conferred, FIRST TB Champion Award by Global Health Strategies (GHS), an international consulting company.