Infolife to expand presence in India and overseas

Akhtar Pasha / Bangalore

Infolife Technologies, a Bangalore-based software product company offering healthcare-related software products, plans to increase the Indian installed base of its flagship product, EasyHMS, a Hospital Management solution (HMS). The company is also targeting overseas markets in the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Sri Lanka.

Infolife Technologies CEO, J Bennet Mendis said, “We have been successfully bidding for projects against big players in the HMS space like Wipro, TCS and Siemens. Customers are demanding feature-rich, low-cost solutions that can be implemented faster. Our HMS solution is priced two to three times less than that of our closest competitor.” The company has 20 installations in the recent past under its belt, with multi-speciality hospitals like Unity Hospital, Koshy’s hospital, Chinmaya Mission hospital, P D Hinduja Sindhi hospital, CSI and Sevakshetra hospital.

Infolife plans to increase its presence in Karnataka and other parts of the country. It is expecting Rs 3 crore in revenues for the year 2003-04 with 15 new customer installations.

The company has appointed overseas partners to cater to markets like Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Sri Lanka. Mendis said, “Overseas customers are looking for Web-enabled solutions for their hospital management requirements that are easy to integrate and faster to implement. Our product is compliant with Healthlevel 7 standards. In addition to this, we are planning to integrate 10 International Classification of Diseases (ICD) with EasyHMS software. ICD is a classification of international codes for different diseases.” Infolife is expecting 6 to 8 overseas installations in 2003-04.

The standard version of EasyHMS is suited for a 50-bed hospital and is priced at Rs 50,000. The software handles doctors’ appointments, integrating with the front office and all departments of the hospital and can be used to generate MIS reports. For a 250-bed hospital, EasyHMS is priced at Rs 2.5 lakh and the enterprise version consisting of 28 modules offering end-to-end HMS is priced at Rs 7.5 lakh for hospitals with more than 250 beds. Infolife’s solution caters to multi-speciality hospitals, nursing homes and private clinics. The core product development team of 25 engineers is based in Bangalore; the team provides product support to Infolife’s customers. EasyHMS runs on any Windows platform and uses MySQL as the database. Infolife also supports Oracle. For small nursing homes and private clinics, the company offers MySQL, a freeware database. As a value-added service, the company also offers its software bundled with PCs for nursing home and small clinics.