‘Room Service' in hospital -- IT in healthcare logistics

The effective implementation of IT in healthcare logistics has helped save manpower cost, increase productivity and redeploy the unskilled workforce at Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital (KMCH), Coimbatore. The hospital is among a few others (in the city and elsewhere) to use the Pneumatic Tube Transport System (PTTS) to improve patient care. Read this interesting story by Ms. L.N. Reavthy published in "The Hindu Business Line" dt. 28th Feb 2011.