Cost-effective integrated Hospital Information System (HIS)
Hospital Information System (HIS) is vital for decision making and plays a crucial role in healthcare revolution. With computerisation of the medical records and documentation, clinicians and other healthcare professionals can access the information without delay or errors and make a better decision on time. But most of the Bangladeshi hospitals lack the appropriate system. However, implementing this system does not require much money; whereas, it can improve patient care, ensure patient safety and efficiency.
HIS addresses the entire major functional areas of modern multi-specialty hospitals. Well designed, integrated computer system can be a great tool in the hands of the Hospital management in improving services, controlling cost, and ensuring optimal utilisation of facilities.
The importance of the HIS is for centralised database, reduced patient waiting time for appointment and billing, reduced patient waiting time at pharmacy for collection of medicine, reduced time for diagnostic result preparation by directly capturing data from machines, patient records available in the hospital.
Some of the private hospitals in Bangladesh have taken initiative but are not using universally. In a large hospital, which devotes considerable emphasis on patient care, the online computerised system should be establish to reduce costs and improve the accuracy for patient care, accounting and administration, record keeping and management reporting. In the long run, we can build and maintain patient database for analysis of data to facilitate decision-making process.
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