Taking the Digital India program ahead, public health department of Maharashtra Government is slated to introduce Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance system (AEBAS) in all the government-run hospital
Taking the Digital India program ahead, public health department of Maharashtra Government is slated to introduce Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance system (AEBAS) in all the government-run hospitals and medical facilities of the state. The system, which enables an employee to mark his attendance through biometric fingertip registration, is to offer a range of benefits, including personal accountability of work hours and easy maintenance of records for the senior officials. Some of the major hospitals of the state have already been using the system for the past couple of years.
The state public health department officials, through a government resolution requested all the respective hospitals and health posts to ensure necessary action to implement AEBAS at the earliest. As the centralised portal for monitoring the attendance through AEBAS of Public Health and Family Welfare Department is live, Mumbai is already connected to the server on the Arogya Bhavan portal, designated for the nationwide database. Aadhaar Biometric Cell, under the IT cell, set up at Aarogya Bhavan in GT Hospital campus is going to be the control command centre for implementation of the AEBAS system.
Meanwhile, the health officials have been asked to complete the work by July 31, 2016.
Talking about the benefits of AEBAS, officials said mobility, comprehensive centralised database and time authentication are some of the major features of the system that will completely abolish the current paperwork maintained by the employees of the hospital for maintaining the employee records.
“AEBAS provides the much-needed mobility in Public Health Department, wherein an employee can mark his attendance from any of the health facilities which has AEBAS, as their biometric is authenticated against UIDAI (Aadhaar) database,” the GR said.
Giving more power to the senior health officials, the system will also allow them to login to the system from anywhere and view their monthly or daily attendance records of their unit. As the time taken to register the attendance is said to be as low as 1-2 seconds on Wi-Fi and 8-11 seconds on GPRS (SIM), the system will also maintain and provide a never-before real-time attendance records of the employees. “The Integrated with SMS feature will allow users to get SMSs from the systems at various levels like after registration, on non-marking of attendance and other conditions to empower the users of the system,” mentioned the GR.
Dr Tatyarao Lahane, dean of JJ Hospital and Grant Medical College said, “We have already installed the system at all the JJ Group of hospitals since past two years. However, looking at favourable results, the system is now extended to every government-run hospital of the state.”
