
‘Smart Clinics’ to be ready in a month
The Hindu
The project was announced in June last year
To ensure that quality healthcare is accessible to all citizens, the existing Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and referral hospitals under BBMP will be converted to ‘Smart Clinics’. Though announced in June last year, not much headway has been made, but officials said that preparations on the new tender were under way and they would be ready in a month.
The Smart Clinics will have have several digital interventions, including online consultations, three-way counselling/ consultations between specialists, PHC doctors and patients, creating a digital database with complete data of the patients visiting the PHCs.

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