MillenniumIT ESP’s HealthVision digitally connects children with special needs to MJFCF health, education services

MillenniumIT ESP Director/Chief Operating Officer and Ambeon Holdings Group Chief Investments and Process Officer Dr. Sajeeva Narangoda and Dilmah CEO and MJFCF and NCCPDD Director Dilhan C. Fernando acknowledging the partnership

First row from left: MJF Charitable Foundation General Manager Thamindri De Silva, MillenniumIT ESP Head of Technology Alliances and Innovation Rahal Jayawardene, MillenniumIT ESP Manager – Emerging Technologies Calvin Hindle, Microsoft Sri Lanka Philanthropies Lead – South East Asia New Markets Janakie Karunaratne, MJF Charitable Foundation Head of Rehabilitation Services Gopi Kitnasamy. Second row from left: MJF Charitable Foundation Special Projects Manager S.J. Mohamed Safrik, MillenniumIT ESP Director/Chief Operating Officer and Ambeon Holdings Group Chief Investments and Process Officer Dr. Sajeeva Narangoda, Microsoft Sri Lanka and Maldives Country Manager Hasitha Abeywardena, MillenniumIT ESP Head of Business Applications Sanjaya Dayananda, Dilmah CEO and MJFCF and NCCPDD Director Dilhan C. Fernando, MillenniumIT ESP Senior Tech Lead – Software Engineering Sujeewa Ediriweera, and MillenniumIT ESP Senior Software Engineer Milinda Kalyanawansa 

• MillenniumIT ESP collaborates with Microsoft to roll out HealthVision for MJF Charitable Foundation
• HealthVision is MillenniumIT ESP’s latest solution on remote patient management that focuses on patient primary healthcare and symptom reporting
• MJF Charitable Foundation is an esteemed non-profit organisation in Sri Lanka formed by Dilmah Tea Founder Merrill J. Fernando

MillenniumIT ESP – one of Sri Lanka’s leading systems integrator and information systems providers – rolls out HealthVision, a remote patient assessment and monitoring solution, for well-respected, local non-for-profit MJF Charitable Foundation (MJFCF) established by Dilmah Tea Founder Merrill J. Fernando. 

The MJF Centres will be using HealthVision for their Disability unit which comprises of the Rainbow Centre and the National Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy and other Developmental Disorders (NCCCPDD). For this project execution, MillenniumIT ESP is working with Microsoft Sri Lanka through their philanthropies arm who donated Microsoft Azure services to deploy HealthVision at MJFCF. 

HealthVision is a web-enabled, mobile responsive, intuitive platform for medical personnel to connect with their patients remotely. At the MJF Charitable Foundation, HealthVision will enable medical personnel and caregivers to connect with children that have Cerebral Palsy and other developmental disorders from across Sri Lanka; record their current health, safety and risk details through a guided questionnaire; visually capture their expressions, symptoms and symptom history through video and audio recordings; provide home based therapies and care where applicable; and continue communications with them on a periodic basis to ascertain the status of their wellbeing.

The National Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy and other Developmental Disorders at MJFCF serves as a national hub, offering various services such as education, therapy, training and counselling for children with Cerebral Palsy and other developmental disorders, as well as their caregivers, teachers and trainers who work with special needs individuals.

HealthVision will be powering ‘disABILITY’, the disability screening and management application of MJF Foundation, and the platform will be specifically connecting children with special needs and their families in Sri Lanka to MJF Centre’s services provided at NCCCPDD and via other partners across Sri Lanka; including Disability Screening, Developmental Screening, Child Reference to Pediatrician Diagnosis, Early Identification and Intervention, Free Multidisciplinary Team Support, Free Therapeutic, Educational and Rehabilitation Services, Free Mobility Aids Support and Child Progress Monitoring Follow Ups.

“It is with great pleasure that we partner with MJFCF to introduce HealthVision to Sri Lanka through a great philanthropic service,” stated MillenniumIT ESP Director and Ambeon Capital PLC and Ambeon Holding PLC Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Murali Prakash. 

“With the assistance of HealthVision, a remote monitoring e-solution, charitable institutions such as MJF Foundation can now monitor children in their care from a distant location expanding the reach of much need therapeutic services for children and adults who are differently abled. 

“The use of HealthVision further ensures the reduction of healthcare risks where deterioration in a patient’s health status can be brought to a provider’s attention early enough allowing proactive intervention and personalised care, thus assisting their caregivers, teachers and trainers who work with special needs individuals,” he concluded.

In this case, patients and/or their parents or caretakers will be able to securely access the HealthVision platform through the solution’s web URL or via its mobile app. The HealthVision powered ‘disABILITY’ app, which supports both Android and iOS, can be signed in via the one-time-password (OTP) sent for authentication to their respectively registered mobile number. Each recorded case will be identified with a unique reference code and provided to the patient for future reference. 

On the other hand, HealthVision will allow medical personnel and caregivers to communicate with special needs children and their parents or caretakers through video, audio and chat facility. They will also be able to access their patients’ assessments or inquiries through the solution’s Admin Panel and patient cases will be automatically allocated to the medical personnel in the system. 

Moreover, the Admin Panel will be providing valuable insights to identify the children’s current status, where they are located, provide them the resources needed to maintain a positive mindset and guidance to follow the medical advice offered by the medical personnel.

“The MJF Centres around Sri Lanka work with over 400 children daily. However, there is an estimate of 40,000 children with Cerebral Palsy living in Sri Lanka,” says Dilmah CEO and MJFCF and NCCPDD Director Dilhan C. Fernando. “This partnership provides a wider reach to ensure that more children and others living with the stigma of disability have access to services they may not receive otherwise,” he added. 

Overall, MillenniumIT ESP’s latest solution HealthVision, will provide MJFCF’s medical personnel detailed information of symptoms and video captures of their patients’ cases, risk ratings of each case for efficient prioritisation of same, and the ability to customise the solution’s questionnaires and workflows to suit the National Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy and other Developmental Disorders’ precise 

requirements.