TCS Partners With Ireland's Royal College Of Physicians

Jul 11
19:35

2016

Upendra Dudhewewala

Upendra Dudhewewala

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TCS and Royal College of Physicians, Ireland have collaborated to deploy iON cloud solutions for creating an online community of doctors.

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Royal College of Physicians,TCS Partners With Ireland's Royal College Of Physicians Articles Ireland have collaborated to  deploy iON cloud solutions for creating an online community of doctors. The new tool is called The Physician Network. This tool is a resource based on theTCS iON Digital Learning Platform to enable virtual 'common-interest communities' and to make  best practice knowledge-sharing easy.

 

The news arrived a little while before the stock market closed for the day where TCS share priceclosed at Rs. 2,480.20 with a dip of 0.56%. V Ramaswamy, the Global Head of TCS iON said that doctors will be able to work together from any location around the world. This can be done using the mobile-optimised solution for sharing insights and learnings with other medical professionals. He also said that the goal was to get the right set of professionals to have the largest community of doctors online. He added that they started engaging with Royal College of Physicians in Ireland to reformulate the way education is being done.

 

TCS iON is a strategic unit of TCS and is focused on manufacturing industries, educational institutions, and exam boards. In the field of education, TCS iON offers solutions like digital examinations digital assessment, digital campus, digital marking , digital records, among others. Ramaswamy said that with respect to the partnership, the intention is to remove the limits of the campus and make it available to the large set of students outside the campus. He explained that they wanted to develop a professional learning community with doctors and specialists and give them access to resources and create content to benefit each other.

 

The TCS iON Digital Assessment platform is also being used to allow doctors in Ireland, India, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Malaysia to take the Membership Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (MRCPI) examinations. Apart from this, they are also ready to play a greater role in vocational education by offering digital learning and digital campuses.

 

V Ramaswamy also said that they are looking at how they participate effectively in the Skill India program and how they bring various different professionals, learners, and industry to get one in one platform to collaborate and leverage each other. He also indicated that for TCS iON, open and Distance learning is a very huge opportunity. Since it is a very paper-intensive space, their aim is to transform it using digital technology.

 

TCS iON already has tie-ups with several Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management where they work to offer certificates in dematerialised formats (apart from the physical certificate) which is digitally signed by the Comptroller of Examinations of that particular institution.

 

The 52 week high and low of TCS share price Rs. 2,770.00 on 05-OCT-15 and Rs. 2,115.00 on 29-FEB-16 receptively. TCS has the free float market cap of 1,32,221.82 crores and the traded value of 19,387.12 Lakhs or 7,79,874 shares. The resistance and support level of TCS can be checked at the TCS share price forecast page of Dynamic levels.

 

The resistance and support level of TCS can be checked at the TCS share price forecast page of Dynamic levels.