It has been designed to capture live village level data for planning necessary interventions aimed at control of blindness
SERVIS, a unique android-based application designed to capture live village level data for planning necessary interventions aimed at control of blindness, was launched recently by Founder and Managing Trustee, Dr RV Ramani along with Jomy Lawrence, Manager – Vodafone Business Services, Chennai at Sankara Eye Hospital, Coimbatore.
“A one of its kind programme, the role based SERVIS will make the process of outreach paperless as Sankara’s team of field workers, optometrists, ophthalmologists and paramedics will use tablets to record patient specific data during household surveys and eye camps, providing instant advisories and promoting preventive eye care awareness,” said, Dr Imtiaz Ahmed, DGM, Community Outreach.
“Being the first eye care provider to have been able to automate hospital level data through online EMR country wide, Sankara decided to harness technology to integrate community level information as well. What’s more is that the information is geo tagged (GIS and GPS enabled), which means that the gathered data will provide real time information on blinding disease patterns and eye care utilisation, thus enablingprompt intervention and planning of programmes so that no one needlessly goes blind. Two years of extensive efforts have perfected it to meet the highest expectation of a responsive surveillance and information system,” said Bharath Balasubramaniam, President, Sankara Eye Hospital.