What is a Hospital Management System?

Hospitals currently a manual system for the management and maintenance of critical Information. The current system requires numerous paper forms, with data stores spread throughout the hospital management infrastructure. The IT system has changed the field of medicine. In this fast-paced world of medicine, it is a formidable task to manage a multi-specialty hospital. A hospital management system (HMS) is a computer or web based system that facilitates managing the functioning of the hospital or any medical set up. This system or software will help in making the whole functioning paperless. It compiles all the information regarding patients, doctors, staff, hospital administrative details etc. into single software which makes all the activities streamlined. It has sections for various professionals that make up a hospital. It aims at standardizing data, consolidating data ensuring data integrity and reducing inconsistencies.

HMS is a breakthrough tool which enables the medium sized and huge hospitals to manage their operations in a cost-effective yet efficient manner. It not only does the work quickly but also takes the pain away from the hospital administration. The functioning of HMS includes activities ranging from clinical to back office works that too without using a single piece of paper. This system is quite robust and flexible and is not limited to only big hospitals. You can manage your clinics as well from anywhere.

FEATURES:

USER MANAGEMENT- You can create multiple users in accordance with staff’s strength and department. The privileges and functions for each user can be assigned as per the requirement and can be changed at a later stage if required.

PATIENT MANAGEMENT- The records of patients are created in such a way that you can sort the data as per need. The information stored is secure and easily accessible for the user.

OPD-The outpatients are essential for a hospital and so is their record. The OPD data can be irritate to handle especially when additional recurring costs like paper and other stationary is considered on top of the time it takes to handle.

IPD: May be not as high in count as OPD, the IPD can still be a mess at times. Specially, when it comes to maintaining the records of patients’ medicine intervals, diagnostic schedule, reports and many more.

BILLING: E-bills are widely accepted nowadays.  Bills were generated almost automatically. It saves time and money.

PHARMACY: Which medicine for which patient, quantity and precision all these things could be really complex to handle, but if the record is managed by the HMS, there is absolutely no chance for a fault.

WARD BOOKING: In order to streamline the allotment of rooms/wards, HMS will help to avoid the difficulty to allot rooms to patients.

Advantages

The biggest merit of HMS is that it helps you to cut-off your human resources requirement as most of the work will be done by the software itself. The automated responses on the inquiries can be given to the patients through Interactive Voice Response (IVR) as the HMS is integrated with the phones and the reporting of the queries can also be automated.

Another biggest advantage of having the HMS is that the Hospitals can integrate their Hardware with this system and can generate reports for communicating more quickly with the patients through SMS and e-mails.

Ease of access: The data and information stored in HMS is exceptionally easy to access and manage not only for the administrators but also for the patients.

Time-saving and cost efficient solution: Faster internal communications and thus better results for the management.

Precision and accuracy: The system enables the patients to interact directly with the concerned person.

A transparent billing module is integrated which is a benefit of HMS.

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