Wipro implements "Project Panchdeep"
Wipro has announced the successful implementation of the Employees' State Insurance Corporation's (ESIC) Project Panchdeep, a healthcare administration program aimed at automating healthcare services to over 6 crore beneficiaries spread across the country. Project Panchdeep provides online facilities to employers and insured people for registration, payment of premium and disbursement of cash benefits. It also automates medicare services to all insured people. This has not only brought in complete transparency in the system, it has empowered the stakeholders like never before. Each day close to 75 thousand people are benefitting from Project Panchdeep.
Anand Sankaran, Sr. VP & Business Head-India, Middle East and Africa, Wipro said, "We are honored to have been part of ESIC's visionary initiative in taking quality healthcare to the masses. Wipro has established a Unified Information System automating all internal and external processes of ESIC. We have designed and developed a comprehensive suite of applications which includes Hospital Information System, Insurance and ERP modules. We have set up the IT infrastructure for a state of the art central data center in Delhi and Disaster Recovery center in Hyderabad. We have also installed centralized hardware such as servers, storage, security and network devices ensuring an integrated and a secured information retrieval system spread over 2000 locations pan India. Our endeavor has been to ensure that every ESIC beneficiary can avail medical services through Pehchan Cards and obtain their claims faster and in a hassle-free manner, anytime, anywhere. For this purpose over 900 Pehchan Camps are running all across India. We are happy to know that this IT initiative has been well received by all stakeholders of ESIC."
Dr. C S Kedar, IAS, Director General, Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) said, "Project Panchdeep is India's first and largest social security program which comprises of five important components namely Pehchan, Milap, Pashan, Dhanwantri and Pragati. We are happy that all five components of Project Panchdeep have been successfully implemented. With this implementation, ESIC stakeholders can avail anytime, anywhere healthcare services from across 2000+ ESIC locations spread across the country."
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