Hyderabad: Somesh Kumar, Chief Secretary today directed the officials to initiate steps to use information technology to improve the quality of health services to the patients in the State. Today Chief Secretary held a review meeting in BRKR Bhavan with Health officials on various information technology initiatives.
He said that as per the vision of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao we need to use high-end technology to ensure improved health care and services in rural areas, towns in the state.
The Chief Secretary advised that the applications must be simple to use and must not only improve efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery but also serve as decision support systems and planning tools.
He asked all HoDs of the Health Department to review the regulatory functions discharged by them and in a time-bound manner to come up with a detailed analysis of processes along with suggested measures for simplification, ease of compliance, and increasing transparency.
S.A.M. Rizvi, Secretary, Health, Medical & Family Welfare, Vakati Karuna, Commissioner, Health & Family Welfare, Ronald Rose, Spl Secretary, Finance, D. Divya, IAS., Spl. Secretary, WCD &n SC, Alagu Varsini, Director, Department of AYUSH, Preeti Mena, Director Drug ControlAdministration, Adwait Kumar Singh, EA to CS, Soni Bala Devi, IFS., Spl. Secretary, HM&FW, Dr. Ramesh Reddy, Director of Medical Education, Dr. Srinivas Rao, Director of Public Health & Family Welfare, Chandrasekhar Reddy, MD, TSMSIDC, and other officials were present in the meeting.
source (NSS)
