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Amrita Institute of Medical Science (AIMS)

last updated Sep 27, 2011

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Mata Amritanandamayi Math
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
1998
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle), 60-90% (middle to upper-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Out-of-pocket payments
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Donor

Technology

Technology Used: 
Computer › Video-conference, Camera (Video/Photo)

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
100<
Number of Clients Served: 
460000 outpatients and 40000 inpatients.
Summary: 

The AIMS hospital provides affordable care as well as charitable care and offers a full range of primary and specialty care medical services as well as enabling cross-specialty consultation. AIMS was awarded medical university status by the state government of Kerala and on August 10, 2002, AIMS was chosen for the Central Government's pilot project on telemedicine.

Key program components: 

The Institute has established several satellite hospitals in semi-urban and rural areas to serve the local populace. Students from the health sciences campus in Kochi are often posted to these hospitals, and doctors and other medical staff serve there as well. These satellite hospitals are linked to the 24/7 telemedicine service of AIMS Hospital. The technology allows for the transmission of a patient's medical records and images, and provides a live two-way audio and video link which, in case of an emergency, allows a general practitioner at the health center to connect with a specialist at AIMS.

Within the main institute, AIMS' infrastructure is comprised of a reference diagnostic clinical laboratory (including molecular biology and cytogenetics labs), a diagnostic imaging centre, a medical, dental, and nursing college, a pharmacy school and research facility, a computerised and networked Hospital Information System (HIS) and a radiology department. The OPD department receives 100-150 patients/day with an occupancy rate of 90-92 percent.

Hospital at a glance: • Total beds: 1200 • Total intensive care beds: 135 • Total inpatients in 2005: 36122 • Total outpatients in 2005: 4,24,703 • Total Operation theatres: 22 • Heart Operations in 2005: 2334 • Total operations 2005: 15,371 • Total floor space: 900,000 ft² (84,000 m²)

Technology Info
Purpose: Extending Geographic Access

Program history: 

The Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) and Research Centre is situated near Edapally in Kochi, India. It was inspired by Mata Amritanandamayi and inaugurated on May 17, 1998 by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Mata Amritanandamayi Math is its parent organization.

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