Hospital Management Information System

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The purpose of a hospital information system (HIS) is to manage the information that health professionals need to perform their jobs effectively and efficiently. Healthcare organizations of all sizes face a critical need to manage and integrate clinical, financial and operational information.

HMIS is implemented in a hospital for managing patient care and related administrative functions. It has the potential to improve the efficiency of overall system through automation and generates necessary reports for managing operations, performance, quality, planning, decision-making and reporting for projects. One should be aware that merely implementing HMIS will not by itself bring out all the improvement that we expect. , it should be systematically planned, implemented, used and continually improved.  At TCS Technology Pvt. Ltd. The system has since been continuously reviewed, updated and expanded with new features as needed and opportunities arose for automation and improvement.

TCS Technology Pvt. Ltd. can customize an Information Management System with a single database ...
... and common functionality that support integrated ancillary products that gives you a comprehensive system to meet your HIS and budgetary requirements.

Why is HMS important for a hospital?

HMS was introduced to solve the complications coming from managing all the paper works of every patient associated with the various departments of hospitalization with confidentiality. HMS provides the ability to manage all the paperwork in one place, reducing the work of staff in arranging and analyzing the paperwork of the patients. HMS does many works like:
 
- Maintain the medical records of the patient  
- Maintain the contact details of the patient
- Keep track of the appointment dates
- Save the insurance information for later reference
- Tracking the bill payments.
- Time-saving Technology
- Improved Efficiency by avoiding human errors
- Reduces scope for Error
- Data security and correct data retrieval made possible
- Cost effective and easily manageable
- Easy access to patient data with correct patient history
- Improved patient care made possible
- Easy monitoring of supplies in inventory
- Reduces the work of documentation
- Better Audit controls and policy compliance.
 
The advantages of HMS can be pinpointed to the following:
 
- Time-saving Technology
- Improved Efficiency by avoiding human errors
- Reduces scope for Error
- Data security and correct data retrieval made possible
- Cost effective and easily manageable
- Easy access to patient data with correct patient history
- Improved patient care made possible
- Easy monitoring of supplies in inventory
- Reduces the work of documentation
- Better Audit controls and policy compliance.

Project specific Reports

It is common to get request from funding agencies for specific reports which may be combination of several reports and not part of our routine list of reports. It is possible to develop some reports using open source or reporting tool built into Hospital Management Information System. Otherwise, such reports can be manually filled using the relevant reports generated from Hospital Management Information System.

Conclusion

Hospital Management Information System is a tool to automate transaction, capture necessary data and generate a lot of insights for managing patient care functions of eye hospitals. Appropriate planning, developing good understanding of the requirements and features available in the system would help to objectively evaluate and implement right system. Regular monitoring by making use of the information generated from system would help for continuous improvement both in the system and in the areas of our focus.