Hospital Information System
The purpose of a hospital information system (HIS) is to manage the information that health professionals need to perform their jobs effectively and efficiently. It use a network of computers to collect, retrieve and process patient care and administrative information from various departments of hospital to satisfy the functional requirement of the users.A hospital information system consists of departments that handle pharmacy, laboratory, radiology, nursing, and information as well as user management configurations, with medical archiving facilities for the digital health records.
Information Requirements:
Operational Requirements
Up-to-date factual information
Necessary for day to day tasks
Planning requirements
Short- and long-term decisions about patient care
Decisions about hospital management
Documentation Requirements
The maintenance of records
Accreditation
Legal record
Key Features
Electronic Patient Folder:It provides doctors a historical and episodical view of patient’s illness and everything related to patient.
Clinical Systems:Doctors and nurses can maintain notes, access case sheets, reports of diagnostic tests as most of the clinical areas like laboratory,cardiology, radiology etc are automated.
Patient Administration & Billing Systems: This system helps the hospital to manage a large no of patients and also help the out patients to know about doctor’s availability.It also provides a bed management and a detailed bill of all the services in the hospital.
Material Management System: It provides a large number of critical reports which can keep track of materials in the hospital for efficient inventory management in the hospital.
Laboratory Information System:It provides detailed reports of process from test requisition to result reporting, in addition to detailed reports on consumption and wastage of reagents.
Enterprise Management Systems:This system helps hospitals by providing services like keeping medical reports, patient files,maintenance of tariffs, and organization wide reporting.
Interfaces: The HIS can be interfaces to standard 3rd party software such as PCS, HR and financial accounting.
Reports: The HIS system gives large collection of MIS reports such as,list of outstanding bills,revenue-doctor wise and department wise expiry items etc.