Hospital Management System and Implementation Challenge
Hospitals have loads and tons of daily activities in their quest of preserving and maintaining human health, it is not strange that computing have it’s role to play in balancing the whole process, not excluding faster service with zeroing the millions of paper files that occupies lot of physical space.
If, I repeat if any establishment is still running based on paper, such an institution is still living in the analogue days, according to Ken Hakuta, People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours. Now if your world change in resistance you refuse to follow that change, you are bound to the past.
My apology to the reader for having to take you through all the stories above about change.Change and HMS implementation challenge, a strong cynic might wonder what is the line between the two?+
My experience at APMIS, your first step to first floor, SIDMACH building, Ikeja, Lagos, you are welcome by neatly looking men, as you pushed the door, at your first sight are another set of nice looking gents and ladies, who are engrossed with their computers, What do they do, they spend days, most at times, sleepless night coding, these codes are geared towards health services, making the health service responsive, data to sync seamlessly, and making hospital records more secured, and breathing in a new air into the health system.
Doctors are brilliant people, likewise the nurses too, but the number one challenge you will come across in the quest of aiding the life process inn medical centers is number one the human factor, Doctors could be reluctant to changing the process they’ve been made to pass through in university, pen and paper, but at the heart of e-health lies the Doctor, in your quest to building e-health solutions, you must learn to be patient, calm and ready to personally lead the Doctor through the change you bringing in to the hospital.
Secondly, issue of power supply in sub-Sahara Africa is a great challenge to technological gadgets in total, An hospital that is ready to change course towards digital process rather than the physical process of having loads of paper files occupying a whole space that could be make a ward, will first have to take the issue of epileptic power supply head-on.
Another factor to be consider is the technical know-how of front-desk staffs, who are to carry out data capturing with booking of appointments, as a tech institution we can’t afford to assume the front-desk person at a particular hospital have the appropriate tech skill in proportion to the HMS, this can cause lack of derivation of benefits from the system when the front-desk person at the hospital do not have the necessary tech skill to use the application and thereby stylishly refusing to use the HMS, these front-desk persons include both the nurses who will take necessary vitals of patient, not only that woman or man that will start up registration for patient.
Not the least, what is the role of the tech support staff. The tech support staffs are firstly to teach the teacher who in turn will assist if by circumstances at 12 midnight, you the support is asleep and an hospital staff require a guide light in using a particular module of the HMS.
