Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Hospital Information System

         A hospital information system (HIS), variously also called clinical information system (CIS) is a comprehensive, integrated information system designed to manage the administrative, financial and clinical aspects of a hospital. This encompasses paper-based information processing as well as data processing machines.

HIS covers all aspects of hospital management and clinical application, providing a complete tool for the hospital management and clinical application, which frees the medical staff from the heavy work load and improves the work efficiency of the hospital. 



       HIS focuses on both hospital management information and clinical information.It is also a use-friendly interface, easy for integration with the products of the third party; high flexibility; provides second development platform; realizes information sharing, data sharing, and seamless connection among every subsystems, and the result can be acquired immediately after the examination, and provides interface for connecting to the Hospital Insurance System, Community Medical System and Remote Hospital System.
        


        No hospital information system can be regarded as a success unless it has the full participation of its users. Thus human and social factors would have to be considered in its design, more often than not, they can be easily addressed by providing adequate training and education about the system.


What is Telenursing?

Need a doctor?
Are you ill and not sure what to do?
Is your child ill and you need assistance?
Call Telenurse!
        Telenursing refers to the use of telecommunication and information technology for providing nursing services in health care whenever a large physical distance exists between patient and nurse, or between any number of nurses. As a field it is part of telehealth, and has many points of contacts with other medical and non-medical applications, such as telediagnosis, teleconsultation, telemonitoring, etc.
What are the advantages of telenursing?
  • Telenursing may help solve increasing shortages of nurses;
  •  To reduce distances and save travel time;
  • To keep patients out of hospital.                                                                                    
         As a healthcare provider,  this program is very important because we can extend our services to the outpatient. In our country, majority of the hospitals has not yet implemented this program though there are some of the institutions who already started this program. An example of the institution who used this program is the Capitol University Medical Center; for instance, you are about to administer a drug to your patient but unfortunately, he/she has no stock with that specific drug. Instead of telling the watcher to buy the drug in the pharmacy which is very hassle, you, as an NOD  can order the drug directly to the pharmacy using the computer.