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Yeah thats more the investment side, I was wondering about the operational side of the reclamation itself.
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Yeah thats more the investment side, I was wondering about the operational side of the reclamation itself.
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E-Hospital Dompe; Sri Lanka’s First E-Hospital Is Paving The Path For Digital Health In The Country
5 JUNE 2018
IN THE KNOW
By Radhia Rameez
Seeing a doctor is never fun, but a visit to a hospital can often be an insufferable hassle. More often than not, state hospitals are overcrowded, disorganized and noisy, and there is a good chance that you would have to dig up old medical records, lug them along with you in a bulky folder, and then cool your heels in a sweaty protracted queue for hours on end. Pieces of your medical history and information can get lost along the long line of healthcare providers and healthcare systems, confusing instructions will leave you baffled, and every new healthcare provider you see is going to have to be educated on any existing allergies, previous medication and conditions.
Before the year 2010, a visit to the Dompe District Hospital would have probably been something along these lines; long, weary and unpleasant. However, if you were to walk in today, there is a chance that you would be greeted with a very different experience.
Meet e-Hospital Dompe, the first hospital of its kind in Sri Lanka. This pioneering healthcare institution has embraced the concept of digital health, which means that it now uses ICT to improve the efficiency, competency and quality of the services it offers. It is the result of a 2010 pilot project funded and assisted by Sri Lanka’s ICTA (Information and Communication Technology Agency) to promote the use of digital technology in healthcare in Sri Lanka.
Digital Health And Sri Lanka’s first E-Hospital
The Digital Health Project could be a breath of fresh air in a country whose healthcare system is often impeded by long lines, patient congestion and inefficiency. Image courtesy: Sunday Observer
“Have you ever walked into a consulting room and seen a doctor with a laptop?” asks Shriyananda Rathnayaka, Project Manager of Digital Health Sri Lanka. “It is practically unheard of in this country, isn’t it?” In the new e-Hospital, however, he tells us that every doctor is given a laptop which links them to the rest of the hospital.
E-Hospital Dompe no longer has disorganized queues; instead, you would be registered in the hospital system at the OPD on entering. A Patient Identification Number and a patient-specific barcode is generated, and you would be given a ‘health card’ with a barcode on it. At the Electronic Queue Management Center, you would be issued a token which would tell you where to go and which doctor to see.
During the consultation, Rathnayake tells us, the doctor would scan your barcode (every doctor has a barcode reader, in addition to the laptop) to receive the information about you, such as medical history, allergies, and demographic data. As the consultation ends, he would enter the diagnosis, the prescription, and any further tests which should be taken into the system. For instance, if you were to take a blood test, then you would be directed to the bleeding room, where the phlebotomist would have already received information about you. The blood sample would then be labeled with a barcode, which would enable the lab technician to retrieve vital information before recording the test results.
“This system is called the Hospital Health Information Management System (HHIMS),” Rathnayake tells us, explaining that it makes things infinitely easier for both the patient, as well as the healthcare staff.
So What Is Digital Health, And Why Does Sri Lanka Need It?
Digital health could make a visit to a hospital seamless, quick and convenient. Sri Lanka continues to grow in the digital health sector, with one of the biggest achievements being Dr. Vajira Dissanayake being elected as the President of the Commonwealth Center for Digital Health (CWCDH). Image courtesy: healthtechzone.com
According to Doctor Vajira Dissanayake, digital health is the use of mobile, wireless, and digital technologies for health purposes. This includes concepts like tele-health (mydoctor.lk is a good example), mobile health, Information Technology (IT) and wearable devices.
Dr. Dissanayake is the President of the Commonwealth Center for Digital Health, and cannot stress enough on the importance of digital health in taking the healthcare sector forward. “We need digital health to modernize the health services in Sri Lanka and to make them more efficient, effective, accessible and equitable.”
Channeling at the e-Hospital Dompe is now hassle-free. Image courtesy: healthdept.wp.gov.lk
Some of the reasons why Sri Lanka needs Digital Health:
It is one of the answers to our disorganized, overcrowded state hospitals, and the inconsistent quality of hospital services.
It is instrumental in managing information more efficiently, since many of the hospital records are still paper based and manually made.
It improves connectivity within healthcare institutions, so there is better coordination between healthcare personnel.
Recorded data is invaluable in public healthcare, where information is gathered to measure different health indicators like maternal health.
It is cost-effective and can drastically cut down on expenses. For instance, the new PACS system—which involves replacing hard copies of X-rays with soft copies—can save around two million rupees a month in a general or provincial hospital.
Individuals from disadvantaged or low-income backgrounds, who do not manage their health due to poverty or lack of awareness, will be able to have the hospitals manage their health for them.
How Far Have We Come?
Digitizing healthcare can empower us to better manage and improve health for ourselves and our families. Image courtesy: theverge.com
Surprisingly, the concept of digital health has been around since 1998, with the formation of the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka. However, according to Rathnayake, digital health in Sri Lanka is still in its preliminary stages.
“Implementing digital health across the country, or even in a hospital, is not something that can happen overnight,” says Rathnayake, explaining that it takes a lot of time, training and resources. It also requires the participation and cooperation of all the individuals involved. For instance, another hospital which started the pilot program along with the Dompe District Hospital, failed to get digitized because the personnel were reluctant to get on board.
However, Sri Lanka is not doing too badly either, and Rathnayake tells us that the concept is slowly but steadily growing. About thirty hospitals across the island have so far implemented the HHIMS, and the ICTA is hoping to have fifty hospitals on board by the end of this August. A giant leap was taken by the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) when they recently signed a contract to go digital with all their documents and workflow management.
Another significant milestone so far has been the establishment of the Masters Degree course in Biomedical Health Informatics in the University of Colombo. This has so far provided over a hundred individuals with the qualifications to work as health informaticians. In fact, apart from the US, Sri Lanka is probably the only other country to recognize health informaticians as medical specialists.
The concept of digital health may still be in its infancy, but we can look forward to a time when technology and computers are synonymous with healthcare, and doctors using laptops during consultations are a normal sight. Image courtesy: healthdept.wp.gov.lk
There are many other innovative projects which have been successfully piloted and implemented, and others which are as yet in the pipeline. Some of the systems they hope to implement in the future include the Master Patient Index repository, which manages the healthcare identity in between healthcare institutions (you would basically be able to walk into any hospital and have your medical history accessed), and the National Personal Health repository, which would enable you to control what information you would like to divulge to the healthcare officials.
For a lower middle-income country, Sri Lanka’s healthcare system is pretty impressive. We already stand on par with many other countries much more developed than we are, and we boast excellent healthcare indicators. Digital health could take us to even greater heights, and bring us closer to achieving universal health care than we have ever been.
https://roar.media/english/life/in-...g-the-path-for-digital-health-in-the-country/
5 JUNE 2018
IN THE KNOW
By Radhia Rameez
Seeing a doctor is never fun, but a visit to a hospital can often be an insufferable hassle. More often than not, state hospitals are overcrowded, disorganized and noisy, and there is a good chance that you would have to dig up old medical records, lug them along with you in a bulky folder, and then cool your heels in a sweaty protracted queue for hours on end. Pieces of your medical history and information can get lost along the long line of healthcare providers and healthcare systems, confusing instructions will leave you baffled, and every new healthcare provider you see is going to have to be educated on any existing allergies, previous medication and conditions.
Before the year 2010, a visit to the Dompe District Hospital would have probably been something along these lines; long, weary and unpleasant. However, if you were to walk in today, there is a chance that you would be greeted with a very different experience.
Meet e-Hospital Dompe, the first hospital of its kind in Sri Lanka. This pioneering healthcare institution has embraced the concept of digital health, which means that it now uses ICT to improve the efficiency, competency and quality of the services it offers. It is the result of a 2010 pilot project funded and assisted by Sri Lanka’s ICTA (Information and Communication Technology Agency) to promote the use of digital technology in healthcare in Sri Lanka.
Digital Health And Sri Lanka’s first E-Hospital
The Digital Health Project could be a breath of fresh air in a country whose healthcare system is often impeded by long lines, patient congestion and inefficiency. Image courtesy: Sunday Observer
“Have you ever walked into a consulting room and seen a doctor with a laptop?” asks Shriyananda Rathnayaka, Project Manager of Digital Health Sri Lanka. “It is practically unheard of in this country, isn’t it?” In the new e-Hospital, however, he tells us that every doctor is given a laptop which links them to the rest of the hospital.
E-Hospital Dompe no longer has disorganized queues; instead, you would be registered in the hospital system at the OPD on entering. A Patient Identification Number and a patient-specific barcode is generated, and you would be given a ‘health card’ with a barcode on it. At the Electronic Queue Management Center, you would be issued a token which would tell you where to go and which doctor to see.
During the consultation, Rathnayake tells us, the doctor would scan your barcode (every doctor has a barcode reader, in addition to the laptop) to receive the information about you, such as medical history, allergies, and demographic data. As the consultation ends, he would enter the diagnosis, the prescription, and any further tests which should be taken into the system. For instance, if you were to take a blood test, then you would be directed to the bleeding room, where the phlebotomist would have already received information about you. The blood sample would then be labeled with a barcode, which would enable the lab technician to retrieve vital information before recording the test results.
“This system is called the Hospital Health Information Management System (HHIMS),” Rathnayake tells us, explaining that it makes things infinitely easier for both the patient, as well as the healthcare staff.
So What Is Digital Health, And Why Does Sri Lanka Need It?
Digital health could make a visit to a hospital seamless, quick and convenient. Sri Lanka continues to grow in the digital health sector, with one of the biggest achievements being Dr. Vajira Dissanayake being elected as the President of the Commonwealth Center for Digital Health (CWCDH). Image courtesy: healthtechzone.com
According to Doctor Vajira Dissanayake, digital health is the use of mobile, wireless, and digital technologies for health purposes. This includes concepts like tele-health (mydoctor.lk is a good example), mobile health, Information Technology (IT) and wearable devices.
Dr. Dissanayake is the President of the Commonwealth Center for Digital Health, and cannot stress enough on the importance of digital health in taking the healthcare sector forward. “We need digital health to modernize the health services in Sri Lanka and to make them more efficient, effective, accessible and equitable.”
Channeling at the e-Hospital Dompe is now hassle-free. Image courtesy: healthdept.wp.gov.lk
Some of the reasons why Sri Lanka needs Digital Health:
It is one of the answers to our disorganized, overcrowded state hospitals, and the inconsistent quality of hospital services.
It is instrumental in managing information more efficiently, since many of the hospital records are still paper based and manually made.
It improves connectivity within healthcare institutions, so there is better coordination between healthcare personnel.
Recorded data is invaluable in public healthcare, where information is gathered to measure different health indicators like maternal health.
It is cost-effective and can drastically cut down on expenses. For instance, the new PACS system—which involves replacing hard copies of X-rays with soft copies—can save around two million rupees a month in a general or provincial hospital.
Individuals from disadvantaged or low-income backgrounds, who do not manage their health due to poverty or lack of awareness, will be able to have the hospitals manage their health for them.
How Far Have We Come?
Digitizing healthcare can empower us to better manage and improve health for ourselves and our families. Image courtesy: theverge.com
Surprisingly, the concept of digital health has been around since 1998, with the formation of the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka. However, according to Rathnayake, digital health in Sri Lanka is still in its preliminary stages.
“Implementing digital health across the country, or even in a hospital, is not something that can happen overnight,” says Rathnayake, explaining that it takes a lot of time, training and resources. It also requires the participation and cooperation of all the individuals involved. For instance, another hospital which started the pilot program along with the Dompe District Hospital, failed to get digitized because the personnel were reluctant to get on board.
However, Sri Lanka is not doing too badly either, and Rathnayake tells us that the concept is slowly but steadily growing. About thirty hospitals across the island have so far implemented the HHIMS, and the ICTA is hoping to have fifty hospitals on board by the end of this August. A giant leap was taken by the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) when they recently signed a contract to go digital with all their documents and workflow management.
Another significant milestone so far has been the establishment of the Masters Degree course in Biomedical Health Informatics in the University of Colombo. This has so far provided over a hundred individuals with the qualifications to work as health informaticians. In fact, apart from the US, Sri Lanka is probably the only other country to recognize health informaticians as medical specialists.
The concept of digital health may still be in its infancy, but we can look forward to a time when technology and computers are synonymous with healthcare, and doctors using laptops during consultations are a normal sight. Image courtesy: healthdept.wp.gov.lk
There are many other innovative projects which have been successfully piloted and implemented, and others which are as yet in the pipeline. Some of the systems they hope to implement in the future include the Master Patient Index repository, which manages the healthcare identity in between healthcare institutions (you would basically be able to walk into any hospital and have your medical history accessed), and the National Personal Health repository, which would enable you to control what information you would like to divulge to the healthcare officials.
For a lower middle-income country, Sri Lanka’s healthcare system is pretty impressive. We already stand on par with many other countries much more developed than we are, and we boast excellent healthcare indicators. Digital health could take us to even greater heights, and bring us closer to achieving universal health care than we have ever been.
https://roar.media/english/life/in-...g-the-path-for-digital-health-in-the-country/
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Kandy Multimodal Transit Terminal (KMTT) is to provide a facility to eliminate the spatial scattering of the three existing bus terminals in Kandy namely (1) Good-shed, (2) Clock-tower and (3)Torrington by bringing all existing terminal operations under one roof at Good-shed area of nearly three acres of land adjacent to Kandy railway station. Terminal facility spanning over three levels, connected through an underground passageway and an overhead Skywalk.
It is expected to handle 330000 passenger per day with over 5000 bus trips from 193 bus routes from mainly from 3 bus corridors. There will be IT based Terminal Operating system to control bus operation as well as to provide information to passengers with respect to time of departure location of respective bus bay. Out of 5000 bus trips around 2100 bus trips will be terminated at the KMTT at boarding and alighting bays. All other bus trips will be converted to touch and go trips where they will have bays to unload and pick passengers and continue the trip to other end of the trip or back to origin. By this rearrangement, demand for bus parking within city will be reduced and parking requirement will be provided within KMTT.
With the construction there will be 13 bays for Touch and Go, 32 bays for boarding and alighting, 2 bays for maintenance and 94 bus parking slots for bus operation. In addition to that there will be 40 parking slots for three wheelers and 40 parking slots for private cars.
As passenger facility all facilities required in a terminal including Public conveniences- washrooms & toilets, rest rooms, seating area, ticketing area public information displays and centers, food and shopping outlets are provided within the terminal. There will be facilities for bus cruses and operation and administrations. There will be stair cases, Elevators and Lifts for the passenger movement including facility for disable persons.
There will be elevated pedestrian connection between Peradeniya road and William Gopallawa Mawatha through KMTT over Railway premises. This will provide easy and short distance movement between two roads and KMTT and Railway station. This pedestrian sky walkway will be connected to second floor level of the building where passenger concourse is located.
http://www.scdp.lk/kmtt_kandy
It is expected to handle 330000 passenger per day with over 5000 bus trips from 193 bus routes from mainly from 3 bus corridors. There will be IT based Terminal Operating system to control bus operation as well as to provide information to passengers with respect to time of departure location of respective bus bay. Out of 5000 bus trips around 2100 bus trips will be terminated at the KMTT at boarding and alighting bays. All other bus trips will be converted to touch and go trips where they will have bays to unload and pick passengers and continue the trip to other end of the trip or back to origin. By this rearrangement, demand for bus parking within city will be reduced and parking requirement will be provided within KMTT.
With the construction there will be 13 bays for Touch and Go, 32 bays for boarding and alighting, 2 bays for maintenance and 94 bus parking slots for bus operation. In addition to that there will be 40 parking slots for three wheelers and 40 parking slots for private cars.
As passenger facility all facilities required in a terminal including Public conveniences- washrooms & toilets, rest rooms, seating area, ticketing area public information displays and centers, food and shopping outlets are provided within the terminal. There will be facilities for bus cruses and operation and administrations. There will be stair cases, Elevators and Lifts for the passenger movement including facility for disable persons.
There will be elevated pedestrian connection between Peradeniya road and William Gopallawa Mawatha through KMTT over Railway premises. This will provide easy and short distance movement between two roads and KMTT and Railway station. This pedestrian sky walkway will be connected to second floor level of the building where passenger concourse is located.
http://www.scdp.lk/kmtt_kandy
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Yup that is the linear park around the Beira Lake including parts near the Lotus Tower
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Also on railways , Engines from US while rail cars from India
Sri Lanka to obtain US$ 48.67 million to purchase railway engines for upcountry line
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_18A/Jun13_1528906212CH.php
Wed, Jun 13, 2018, 09:40 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
June 13, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government is planning to obtain US$ 48.67 million from Standard Chartered Band upon the aid of Canada Exports Development Institute to purchase 12 railway engines to service the upcountry railway line.
The Cabinet has granted approval earlier to purchase 12 locomotives for the Sri Lanka Railway Department in order to improve the operational capacity of the upcountry railway line.
The train engines will be procured from the General Electric Company in the United States at a cost of US$ 4.056 million each as per the recommendation of the Standing Cabinet Appointed Procurement Committee (SCAPC). Accordingly, the proposal made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his capacity as the Minister of National Policies and Economic Affairs, to enter in to an agreement for the provision of USD 48.67 million, from Standard Chartered Band upon the aid of Canada Exports Development Institute, was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.
Also, the government has taken steps to purchase 160 passenger carriages under Indian loan assistance. The cost of this project is US$ 82.63 million.
Construction of walkways and parks in Kandy
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Seems like they are finally ready to build the Pettah Transport Hub.
LAUNCH OF THE FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE PETTAH TRANSPORT HUB IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA
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AREP is part of the consortium that will carry out the feasibility study for the Pettah multimodal transport hub in Colombo.
The project was officially launched on 21 June 2018 in the presence of Patali Champika Ranawaka , Sri Lanka's Minister of Megapolis & Western Development.
The feasibility study will be carried out by a consortium between AREP (representative), Egis and SNCF Mobilités (a French Railways branch) and will be funded through a dedicated grant by the French government. The French Development Agency (AFD) will be leading the project.
Located to the east of Colombo's city centre, the multimodal hub is a key project for the city's long-term development. It will connect various transport modes and will contribute to transforming the city into a major business hub in South Asia.
The project will be running over the next 13 months and comprises the following phases:
-Analysis
-Mobility and urban integration
-Architectural scenarios
-Environmental and social impact study
-Technical and financial feasibility of the PPP model
-Architectural programming and preparation of the technical specifications
The team behind the project:
Andreas Heym, Project director, and Nicolas Augris, Engineer specializing in mobility and public transportation
The study is led by AREP South Asia
http://www.arepgroup.com/news/224/l...the_pettah_transport_hub_in_colombo_sri_lanka
LAUNCH OF THE FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE PETTAH TRANSPORT HUB IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA
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AREP is part of the consortium that will carry out the feasibility study for the Pettah multimodal transport hub in Colombo.
The project was officially launched on 21 June 2018 in the presence of Patali Champika Ranawaka , Sri Lanka's Minister of Megapolis & Western Development.
The feasibility study will be carried out by a consortium between AREP (representative), Egis and SNCF Mobilités (a French Railways branch) and will be funded through a dedicated grant by the French government. The French Development Agency (AFD) will be leading the project.
Located to the east of Colombo's city centre, the multimodal hub is a key project for the city's long-term development. It will connect various transport modes and will contribute to transforming the city into a major business hub in South Asia.
The project will be running over the next 13 months and comprises the following phases:
-Analysis
-Mobility and urban integration
-Architectural scenarios
-Environmental and social impact study
-Technical and financial feasibility of the PPP model
-Architectural programming and preparation of the technical specifications
The team behind the project:
Andreas Heym, Project director, and Nicolas Augris, Engineer specializing in mobility and public transportation
The study is led by AREP South Asia
http://www.arepgroup.com/news/224/l...the_pettah_transport_hub_in_colombo_sri_lanka
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