Healthcare is a very
important part of our society and it is vital for healthcare providers to do
their jobs in an efficient and effective manner. Each day hundreds of thousands
of patients enter healthcare facilities challenging the administration to run
the show smoothly. The employees have to manage and integrate financial, clinical
and operational information that grows with the practice. In Earlier time this data was managed
manually, which was time consuming and failed to deliver the desired level of
efficiency.Now most of the hospitals and clinics depends on Hospital Information System which
help them to manage and integrate financial, clinical and operational
information.
A hospital information
system ( HIS ) helps health care providers to do their jobs effectively by
installing a computer system that can manage all the information related to
various department in the hospital .It also provide applications for the integration
of all clinical, financial and administrative . Modern HIS
includes many applications related to the needs of various departments in a
hospital.
HIS
for Different Departments
Nursing Information Systems ( NIS ) –These information systems are
designed to perform a number of functions that help nurses in the hospitals and
provide benefits such as improving staff schedules, accurate patient charting
and improve clinical data integration.The solution can also be used to monitor
staffing levels and achieve more cost-effective staffing.Patient charting
applications allow users to enter details regarding patients. Nurses use NIS for
care plan, admission information and all relevant nursing notes. All important
data is securely stored and can be retrieved when required. Clinical data
integration allows nurses to collect, retrieve and analyze the clinical
information and then integrate it to design a patients’ care plan.
All these features in
NIS ultimately lead to a reduction in planning time and better evaluations and
assessments.
The chance of prescribing the wrong medication also decreases since there is
always a reference for electronically prescribed drugs.
Physician Information Systems ( PIS ) –PIS systems is an application
designed for physicians to improve their practice and are also recommended by
the government to provide better medical care.Many packages are available to
suit different financial plan and can be excecuted to increase efficiency,cut
costs and deliver high quality patient care.This system use popular
applications such as, electronic health records ( EHRs), electronic medical
records (EMRs), and more.
Radiology Information System (RIS) –This System is used for patient database storage,appointment scheduling as
well as reporting and radiology billing services.The radiology
practice has become more complex with advances in technology and more hospitals
now turn to RIS .
Pharmacy Information Systems-This system is designed to helps pharmacists
to monitor how medication is used in hospitals and also to address the demands
of a pharmacy department.PIS helps users supervise drug allergies and other medication-related
complications and allows to detect drug interactions and helps administer the
proper drugs based on the patient’s physiologic factors.
HIS has lot of benefits
to hospitals including quality patient care and better financial management.The
HIS should also be medical staff centric ,patient centric, scalable and affordable.
An effective HIS also delivers benefits such as:
Enhances information
integrity.
Reduces transcription
errors.
Optimizes report turn
around times.
Reduces duplication of information
entries.
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