CARE

CARE System 

CARE is a comprehensive capacity and patient management tool, built specifically for disaster management purposes. It is a web-based application hosted at https://gdc.coronasafe.network

It has dedicated features for COVID testing, inventory management, teleconsultation, etc. It keeps the digital record of a patient's health and enables treatment across different healthcare facilities.

It also allows the state/ district administrators to have a birds-eye view of the health infrastructure at their disposal through smart dashboards and reports. Health being one of the key elements of disaster management, this tool does a good job at delivering healthcare with decentralised control. The asset management modules also helps in keeping track of the requirement from the field and ensuring effective supply of essentials.

CARE Ernakulam district dashboard

Care is open-source software with an MIT license.

Open-Source Software:

The entire codebase of this application is available to the public. The software that formes CARE is developed on an online portal called GitHub that hosts open-source software so that engineers from all across the world may view the codebase of the software and contribute towards the development of the same.

MIT License:

This is a license that explicitly allows anyone to use the code-base of the software in whatever way they deem fit. Any person could copy the code, modify it, reproduce it or do any such action without any consent from the developers of the codebase.

What does this mean?

This means that it is absolutely free for anyone to utilize the software. Since the software is built through contributions from volunteers it is and shall always remain free for use.

It is truly a piece of technology that is built BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE!!!

One of the CoronaSafe Volunteer (developer) setting up the CoronaSafe Dashboards in the District Control Room in Ernakulam

Why is it required?

Capacity Management

The Corona Pandemic has brought to limelight the shortfalls and limitations within our healthcare systems. One of the major shortfalls in our healthcare systems is that the state administrators or decision-makers are blind. Critical information about bed availability, oxygen availability or stock of drugs, etc. is not available in a user-friendly manner anywhere. There is no central or nodal agency that collects real-time data on usage and demand for healthcare assets and services.

CARE system is a platform that makes available real-time data of all subsets within the healthcare system of any identified location. This makes the management of assets within a hospital easier at the same time empowering the administrators and decision-makers to make better-informed decisions.

Patient Management

Our public healthcare system runs on pen and paper. This leads to a multitude of issues like

• Data lose
• Wastage of time
• Reporting becomes tedious
• Analysis of large data becomes impossible
• Communication of information is not efficient
• Large manpower required for data collection and processing

With the digital patient management tool, the treatment given to patients are improved because:

• Patient Data is securely stored
• Patient gets continued care across different facilities because of seamless data sharing
• Close and effective supervision from the administration
• Patient also gets better access to their own medical records
• Fetching data is quicker, easier and more accurate.