Hospital information system
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A hospital information system (HIS) is an element of health informatics that focuses mainly on the administrational needs of hospitals. In many implementations, an HIS is a comprehensive, integrated information system designed to manage all the aspects of a hospital's operation, such as medical, administrative, financial, and legal issues and the corresponding processing of services. Hospital information system is also known as hospital management software (HMS) or hospital management system[1].
Hospital information systems provide a common source of information about a patient's health history[2]. The system has to keep data in a secure place and control who can reach the data in certain circumstances. These systems enhance the ability of health care professionals to coordinate care by providing a patient's health information and visit history at the place and time that it is needed. Patient's laboratory test information also includes visual results such as X-ray, which may be reachable by professionals. HIS provide internal and external communication among health care providers[3]. Portable devices such as smartphones and tablet computers may be used at the bedside.
Hospital information systems are often composed of one or several software components with specialty-specific extensions, as well as of a large variety of sub-systems in medical specialties from a multi-vendor market. Specialized implementations name for example laboratory information system (LIS), Policy and Procedure Management System,[4] radiology information system (RIS) or picture archiving and communication system (PACS).
Potential benefits of hospital information systems include:
- Efficient and accurate administration of finance, diet of patient, engineering, and distribution of medical aid. It helps to view a broad picture of hospital growth
- Improved monitoring of drug usage, and study of effectiveness. This leads to the reduction of adverse drug interactions while promoting more appropriate pharmaceutical utilization.
- Enhances information integrity, reduces transcription errors, and reduces duplication of information entries.[5]
- Hospital software is easy to use and eliminates error caused by handwriting. New technology computer systems give perfect performance to pull up information from server or cloud servers.
See also
- Clinical documentation improvement
- Cloud computing
- Computer security § Medical systems
- DICOM
- Electronic health record (EHR)
- European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec)
- Health information management
- Health information technology
- List of open source healthcare software
- Medical imaging
- Medical record
- Personal health record
- Patient tracking system
References
- ^ "Enhance Work Activity with Hospital Management System". Ataul Karim. 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ^ "Meaning of Patients Health History". Miller Keane. 2019-11-11. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
- ^ "Types of Healthcare providers". Nikolai. 2017-08-28. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
- ^ "Policy and Procedure Management Systems for Hospitals (2012)". PolicyStat LLC. 2012-07-18. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- ^ "Hospital information systems definition given by US based". Consultant.com. Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
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