CARE TOOL

Caretool

CARE is a comprehensive capacity and patient management tool, built specifically for disaster management purposes. 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 is open-source software with an MIT license 

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.

Activity Experience: 

Outcome  

It is important to know about covid 19 and other disasters and how our government gives responses during those pandemic times. 

From this activity we all learnt about covid 19 and it's management by government and other natural calamities like flood, landslides etc., and manmade disasters. 

From this activity we also got to know about CARE tool built specifically for disaster management purposes. 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 and we created awareness about these above topics among rural people. 

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

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.

STEPS TO CREATE A NEW FACILITY

After log-in, click on "Create new facility"

Fill out the form. You will see the following fields

Facility Type- Choose from the various types of facilities from the drop-down menu

Facility Name- Name of your facility in full

State

District

Locale Body- Locale body within which the facility is located in

Address- Full and correct address of the facility

Emergency Contact Number- phone number of the Nodal person for the facility

Oxygen Capacity in litres- If your facility has oxygen storage, mention the capacity in litres. If your facility has no capacity for oxygen storage, leave this field blank.

Location- you may pin the exact location of your facility using the "Pin tool" in the centre. The Latitude and Longitude of the facility then automatically appear in the fields.

Click on "Save Facility"

You will see a notification on the top right corner of the screen confirming that the new facility has been created.

To edit your facility details, you can log-in, enter the Facility Dashboard by clicking "View Facility". Here, on the top right corner, you can see the option to "Update Facility Details".