Hospital Information System
Uploaded by vipulkun on May 23, 2008
Executive Summary
The existing information system are physical record which are mostly on paper and storing that record itself is a difficult task for the hospitals as well as patient. Most of the patients has to carry their medical history by themselves, sometime certain reports were missing which is waste of time as well as cost. If the patients are in critical condition then the situation is still worse for the doctors to make the decision due to lack of their previous history.
An effective Health care decision support system where the patient records are stored in centralised database system, which will help in providing customised information needed by different users of the hospitals to make the effective decision and thus making the hospital perform in efficient way.
Introduction
Hospital Information System is a system which maintains and retrieves detailed clinical data for a patient. This system stores detailed medical record of a particular patient like height, weight, blood pressure conditions, previous treatments and other medical history of the patient. This system also gives details about their previous laboratory records, their prescribed drug usage based on the patient’s medical condition, billing and takes care of the health insurance claims. All the departments of the hospital are linked to the system like, the blood bank, pharmacy, laboratories, etc so that professionals working in these particular departments may perform a query, extract the data, and upload/download details about the condition of a patient depending on the access privilege of each individual.
Existing Hospital Information System
When a patient visits the hospital, he goes through diagnosis of a specialist doctor. If further investigation is required, the doctor sends the patient for a laboratory test. The patient, after being tested at the laboratory, has to wait for a couple of hours/days till the reports to be released. Once the reports are released, the patient has to collect the report and hand it over to the specialist doctor, who examines the reports and determines the criticality of the patient’s health condition and treats with necessary therapy. The patient maintains a case file/folder which contains the details of the patient’s medical condition like the laboratory reports, drugs prescribed from time to time, and other remarks by the concerned doctors about his/her day to day health.
Currently, Information System is not employed in the hospital as all the records are maintained on paper. The patient’s case file, which is merely a folder...