ICMR & AITSC
Software Engineer — Research Collaboration
Solely built digital trauma-patient enrollment systems for 5 government hospitals across India, moving them from pen-and-paper to digital.
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- Chapter
- Impact work
- Focus
- Real Impact
visited in person and ramped onto the system
sole engineer, from software to physical servers
first digital trauma registry for these hospitals
Overview
I solely built the digital trauma-patient enrollment system that moved government hospitals off pen-and-paper. This was not just an application — I was handed physical servers at their locations, connected them to the internet, and made the system reachable and usable for hospital staff.
I then personally visited and ramped up users at 5 different government hospitals across India, all with high trauma-patient volumes. Training staff with widely varying technical confidence was as much of the job as the code.
The project succeeded and set a path for Indian hospitals — especially government hospitals — to adopt digital enrollment practices.
What I built
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Trauma-patient enrollment system
Designed and built the whole thing solo, from data model to interface.
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On-site server infrastructure
Deployed physical servers at hospital sites and connected them to the internet.
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Rollout across 5 hospitals
Visited each hospital in person, trained staff and ramped real usage.
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A template for digital health
Laid groundwork for wider digital enrollment adoption in Indian government hospitals.
Hard problems
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Security in a hospital network
Built secure patient enrollment for government hospital networks handling sensitive medical data.
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Infrastructure with no ops team
Deployed and configured physical server hardware myself, on site.
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Users, not developers
Designed an interface usable by hospital staff with a wide range of technical skill.
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Medical data compliance
Met data security and regulatory requirements for patient records.
Takeaway
How to build systems that create real-world impact, work inside government institutions, and move an organisation from legacy process to digital.
What I worked with
- Full-stack
- Server deployment
- Healthcare data
- Security & compliance
- On-site training