Hospital Management and Information Systems-1 by Kamini
Hospital Management and Information Systems-1 by Kamini
Hospital Management and Information Systems-1 by Kamini
Assignment on-
Ms Anjali Kamini
PIPRAMS PIPRAMS
Submitted on - 23/MARCH/2021
HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Hospital management and information system are comprehensive integrity information systems designed to
manage the medical, administrative, financial and legal aspects of a hospital and its service processing. They are
tools for interdepartmental and intra departmental use. A typical information system will have components for
admissions, medical records, patient accounting, nursing order entry and result reporting. Divisions such as
nursing, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy in hospitals.
A HIS is a computer system that is designed to manage all the hospital’s medical and administrative
information order to enable health professionals perform their jobs effectively and efficiently.
A HIS were first developed in the 1960 and have been essential part in hospital information management and
administration.
There are various titles and acronyms which al declare similar approaches to managing the info. Flow and
storage in hospital routine services as;
AIM
The aim of an HIS is to achieve the best possible support of patient care and outcome and administration by
presenting data generated with networked electronic data processing.
BENEFITS OF HIS
Easy access to patient data to generate varied records, including classification based on demographic, gender,
age and so on.
It helps as a decision support system for developing comprehensive health care policies.
Efficient and accurate administration of finance.
Improved monitoring of drug usage, and study of effectiveness.
Enhance information integrity, reduces, transcription errors, and reduces duplication of information
entries.
COMPONENTS OF A HIS -
CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
FINANCIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM
NURSING INFORMATION SYSTEM
PHARMACY INFORMATION SYSTEM
A clinicalinformation system based on designed for collecting, storing, manipulating, and making available
clinical information important to the health care delivery process.
It provide a clinical history of illness and the interactions with care provider. It encodes information capable of
helping physicians decide about the patient’s condition, treatment, and wellness activities.
It is a computer system that manage the business aspect of a hospital including purchase and staff payroll.
Financial information system aims to ease that daunting task that faces hospitals.
1. PAYROLL
2. PATIENT ACCOUNTING
3. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
4. ACCOUNTS RELIEVEABLE
5. CLAIMS MANAGEMENT
6. CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
This system manage the laboratory information for all the laboratory discipline such as clinical chemistry,
hematology and microbiology. This reports can be sent off for printing at a specific point, sent off to other
systems either to be added to patient’s electronic record or for billing.
This system manage clinical data from a variety of a health care environments, and made available in a timely
and orderly fashion to aid nurses in improving patients care. Most NIS are designed using a database and at
least one nursing classification language such as NANDA, NIC & NDEC.
Some of the features that are provided by nursing information system include-
1. PATIENT CHARTING
2. STAFF SCHEDULES
3. CLINICAL DATA INTEGRATION
4. DECISION SUPPORT
There are benefits to be enjoyed by implementing nursing information system and they include-
Pharmacy information system are complex computer system that have been designed to meet the needs of a
pharmacy department. The use of such systems, pharmacists can supervise and have inputs on how medication
is used in a hospital some of the activities which pharmacy information system have been employed in
pharmacy department include;
Clinical screening:
The pharmacy information system can assist in patient care by monitoring of drug interactions, drug allergies
and other possible medications related complications. When prescription order is entered, the system can check
to see if there are any interactions between two or more drugs taken by the patient simultaneously or with any
food , any allergies to the drug, and if the appropriate dosage has been given based on the patient’s age, weight
and other physiologic factors. Alerts and flags come up when the system picks up any of these.
CONCLUSION -
His can be used to improve the effectiveness of patient care while making it more economical. These can be
available from virtually any location. Clinical nurses can use their nursing information system to replace manual
system of data recording
BIBLIOGRAPHY -
Basheer. P.Shebeer ,Khan yaseen.S. Emmess medical publishers .A concise text book of
ADVANCE NURSING PRACTISE .Edition 2nd page no. 759 - 763.