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IMS-BHU uses Made-in-Indiatech to improve patient care
Varanasi: After six months of successfully running an indigenously developed Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) integrated with a robust Hospital Information Management System (HIMS), one of India's largest level-one trauma centres at the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), BHU is terming it a technological renaissance in public healthcare.
This highly cost-effective innovation, which combines cutting-edge technology with grassroots accessibility, is currently exclusive to the IMS-BHU trauma centre. It is the first and only govt institute in India to provide e-X-Ray services free of charge, said the centre's 'professor in-charge' Prof Saurabh Singh. He compared the cost efficiency of the PACS being used by many other top govt institutions like RML Hospital New Delhi, AIIMS Jodhpur and KGMU Lucknow.
While other institutes spent crores with recurring annual maintenance, IMS-BHU implemented the entire PACS HIMS ecosystem for Rs 2.5 crore with zero maintenance cost for 10 years, said Singh. He mentioned that the base cost of PACS HIMS being used at RML Hospital New Delhi and AIIMS Jodhpur is Rs 16.5 crores each and the comprehensive maintenance contract for 10 years is Rs 4.12 crores each. The base cost of PACS HIMS being used at KGMU Lucknow is Rs 8.30 crores and the CMC cost for 10 years is Rs 2.07 crores.
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The move is expected to save over Rs 2 crores annually, freeing critical funds that can now be redirected toward life-saving infrastructure. The trauma centre commissioned its Made in India PACS HIMS on Feb 6. Singh said, "This initiative has not only transformed clinical workflows but redefined what accessible, efficient and patient-empowered trauma care looks like in the digital age."
The seamless digital ecosystem of this PACS HIMS has made bulky X-ray films and paper-based records a thing of the past.
Now, every patient walking into the trauma centre is enveloped in an end-to-end digital health environment. Medical imaging is now captured, stored, analysed and transmitted entirely through PACS, ensuring zero data loss, instant accessibility and lightning-fast diagnostic turnaround.
Surgeons, physicians, and radiologists access high-resolution X-rays, CTs, MRIs, and ultrasound scans in real time from their authorised devices, eliminating the need for physical reports and enabling faster clinical decisions.
This results in reduced patient waiting time, lower operational costs, enhanced diagnostic precision and an unprecedented boost in institutional efficiency.
This facility, comprising India's first free e-X-Ray over WhatsApp, is proving to be a game changer in this sector. In a country where digital access can mean the difference between life and death, IMS-BHU has pioneered a patient-friendly mobile PACS interface that delivers radiology reports directly to patients' WhatsApp inboxes at zero cost. Singh said in the past six months alone over two lakh patients, many from rural areas, have benefited from this service.
"Our patients are now empowered, our doctors are faster, and our institution is leaner and greener while the trauma centre, IMS-BHU has dared to democratise it and succeeded spectacularly," said Singh.
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