A health information system (HIS) refers to a system designed to manage healthcare data, including a patient's electronic medical record, a hospital's operations, and supporting healthcare policy decisions. [HIS] has five core components: hardware, software, telecommunications, databases, and human resources/procedures. Good information management is crucial at all levels of healthcare from local to national as it provides data to policymakers, managers, and healthcare providers. A HIS aims to adequately enable information processing for patient care, administration, research, and education while considering economic and legal factors. It should provide the right information, knowledge, and data to the right people at the right time and place in the right format to support decision making and

1. Health Information System
By
Sushant Luitel

2. INTRODUCTION
• A health information system (HIS) refers to a system designed to
manage healthcare data. This includes systems that collect, store,
manage and transmit a patient's electronic medical record (EMR), a
hospital's operational management or
a system supporting healthcare policy decisions.

3.  HIS. Hospital Information System. One that supports all
hospital functions and activities such as patient records,
scheduling, administration, charge-back and billing, and
often links to or includes clinical information systems such
as RIS. (Radiology Information System )

4. An information system is described as having 5
components.
1. Computer hardware. This is the physical technology that works with
information.
2. Computer software. The hardware needs to know what to do, and
that is the role of software.
3. Telecommunications.
4. Databases and data warehouses.
5. Human resources and procedures.

5. Why health information system?
• Good management is a prerequisite for increasing the efficiency of
health services.
• Improved health information system is clearly linked to good
management.
• Information is crucial at all management levels of the health services
from periphery to the centre. It is required by policymakers,
managers, health care providers, community health workers.
• “Changing the way information is gathered, processed, and used for
decision-making implies changing the way an organization operates.”

6. Information process
Data collection
Resources
Data transmission
Management
Data processing
Organizational rules
Data analysis
Information for use in
planning and management

7. Registration Consulting Ward Nursing
Pharmacy
Stores & Purchase
Radiology
Laboratory
OT Blood Bank
Diet & Kitchen
And more...
Hospital Information System

9. • the aim of a HIS is
r to adequately enable the execution of information
processing functions
– for patient care, including
administration as well as
– for research and education mainly
for university hospitals -
r considering economic hospital management, as
well as
r legal and other requirements
• therefore HIS contributes to a high quality of
patient care and medical research

10. • HIS should provide
r information, primarily about patients, in a way that it is
correct, pertinent and up to date, in time, accessible by the
right persons at the right site in a usable format
r knowledge, primarily about diseases, but also, for
example, about the effects of drug interaction, to support
diagnosis and therapy
r information about the quality of patient care, hospital
performance and costs

11. in other words:
• HIS should provide, as far as feasible,
r the right information and
r the right knowledge
r at the right time
r in the right place
r to the right people
r in the right form
• so that these people can make
r the right decisions

12. 1. Admissions, Medical Records & Abstracting
(ADM/MRI/ABS)
2. Billing/Account Receivable (BAR)
3. Community Wide Scheduling (CWS)
4. Data Repository (DR)
5. Imaging and Therapeutic Services (ITS)
6. Laboratory, Microbiology, Blood Bank & Anatomical
Pathology (LIS)
7. Order Entry & Electronic Medical Record (OE/EMR)
8. Patient Care System (PCS)
9. Pharmacy (PHA)
10. Remote Physician Access
ten application areas will be the necessary part
of the HIS

13. Thank you very much.
Any questions?