INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN HEALTH CARE

Information Systems in the Hospital and Health Services



Information Systems in the Hospital and Health Services

Article:“Design principles for achieving integrated healthcare information systems”

Introduction

In order to ensure effective and immediate delivery of health services, there is a need of initiating the hospital Information System (HIS). The hospital management information system provides an elaborated Hospital Administration System Database solution which streamlines operations and practices, and the flow of patients in healthcare facilities for efficient coordination. Therefore, the system ensures that better services are provided to patients. The implemented system will make sure that every patient who is in hospital is registered on the system. A patient's record on a central computer system will assist doctors to have the required information bout the patient in treatment. In addition, the doctors will also be able to retrieve the necessary information related to the patient's medical history and treatment record. The information will be up-to-date for complete effectiveness of the system (Austin, 2008, pp. 96). Another advantage of the hospital information systems is that doctors can specify the required medical tests through the links to the diagnosis modules. Furthermore, the results to the test can be delivered through the same system. With the help of this process, doctors can save crucial time which can be utilized in the treatment of other patients. The results can be indicated by statistic as well.

Hospital Information Systems It is believed that an effective hospital information system can have significant contributions toward addressing issues related to healthcare service delivery. One of the examples is the immunization coverage of an area. Immunization cover is total number of new born children in a specific area with the total number of infants who are completely immunized (Duncan, 2005, pp. 47). If health care professionals will have required data about different areas, districts and regions, they will be in a better position to compare the coverage of different areas and determine which area his the poorest coverage. In this way, special consideration can be given to those areas which require additional attention. They hospital information system helps in collecting, managing and analyzing the data along with the proper methods of information use.

Role of Information Technology in Healthcare The development of a global health and medical services has led to a more rapid market development of IT technologies in this field. More and more clinics in different countries have been using a single information system: 1. Clinical Information Systems 2. Electronic Medical Records (EMR) 3. Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) - A computerized system of appointments 4. Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) - Lab Information System 5. Pharmacy Information Systems - Pharmacy Information System 6. Radiology Information Systems (RIS) - Radiology Information System 7. Picture Archiving And Communications Systems (PACS) - imaging archiving 8. Administrative / non-clinical systems The health care industry do not uses the information technology in a traditional manner. Information and communication taechnology application was new to healthcare sector. As the professionals of healthcare have their own core ...