The document discusses the benefits of a Hospital Information System (HIS) from the perspectives of doctors, administrators, patients, and the overall hospital. It states that a HIS can simplify operations, improve administration and patient care, and help control costs. It provides benefits like improved quality of care, reduced costs, better record management, and faster information sharing between departments. Specifically, it allows for improved communication, reduced wait times, better decision making, and more controlled patient care.
2. The HMIS provides the core benefit
• HIS Simplifying operations
– Major and Minor (STEMLINES PROCESS)
• HIS Improved administration
– On all levels
• HIS has More Controlled patient care
– Timely and accurate information
• HIS controls the cost and helps in
achieving profitability
3. HIS MAIN OBJECTIVES….
1. IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF HEALTHCARE
• Contributing objectives
– By Improving communication
• Amongst, between ,the healthcare provides,
healthcare consumers…..
– By Reduce waiting time
• Both IP ,OP, diagnostics, radiology, OT etc….
– Help in decision making
• At all the levels and integrated.
4. 2. By Controlling cost
• Contributing objectives
– Reducing the number of days of hospitalization
– Reduce administrative overheads
– Reduces expenses.
HIS MAIN OBJECTIVES….
5. HIS MAIN OBJECTIVES….
3.By Supporting the clinical
medical and patient care
activities in the hospital
4.By Supporting the
Administration of the
hospitals transactions (financial,
personnel , payroll ,stores..)
6. HIS MAIN OBJECTIVES….
4.BETTER RECORD MANAGEMENT
5.BETTER MASTER MANAGEMENT
6.FASTER INFORMATION FLOW BETWEEN
VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS
7.AVAILABILITY OF TIMELY AND ACCURATE
INFORMATION
8.EASIER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
9.REDUCE WASTAGE IN TERMS OF EFFORT AND
TIME
7. The benefits….
• Increased time spend with patients
• Improved quality of documentation
• Improved quality of patient care
• Increased productivity
• Improved communications
• Reduced medication errors
• Reduced hospital costs
• Increased job satisfaction
• Development of a common clinical database
• Improved patient's perception of care
• Enhanced ability to track patient's record
• Enhanced ability to recruit and retain staff
• Improved hospital image
• Access to all relavent information
8. Patients
•Registration
•Scheduling
•Tracking
•Cost and
down time
•Error free
documentation
•Improves
communication
•Medical
record
details
•Insurance
Doctors
•Registration
per day and
scheduling
•Workload
flexibility
•Job
performance
•instant access
to the chart
•Error free
documentation
•Improves
communication
•30%-40% of nurse and
physician time spent on
non-care activities
•disposition and
location of the
patient at all
times
Benefits
9. Adminis
tration
•Enhances
Hospital Image
•access to all
types of data
and information
sharing
•fewer
complaints
•accurate
happenings at all
the levels and listing
the details in depth
•attracting and retaining
top notch clinicians
•reporting provides clear,
meaningful statistics
•Decreases
Liability
•focus on
department
inefficiencies
Society
•Disease
tracking and
epidemics
•Keeping track
of manpower
requirement
•fewer
complaints and
sues
•More transparent
environment
•Storing and maintaining
the health record
•Clear statics the
birth, death and
the expenditure
•Decreases
Liability
•Allocation of
funds to different
states and tracking
Benefits
10. Benefits of Hospital Information System from
Doctors point of view
• Eliminates manual data entry
– Increased patient knowledge and throughput
– Eliminates 30%-40% of nurse and physician
time spent on non-care activities i.e.: looking
for charts, tracking down lab results,
mobilizing staff, and repeatedly recording
information that someone else has already
recorded
– Provides accurate, legible and timely orders
and results
– Applying technology and streamlining
processes can help reduce overcrowding by
making departments more efficient
11. Benefits of Hospital Information System from
Doctors point of view
..... Saves Time
• Shows the position and location of the patient at all
times
• Provides instant access to the patient chart
• Decreases turnaround treatment times
• Eliminates manual and duplicate orders and results
• Streamlines patient treatment using bedside
registration and documentation
• Enables multiple staff members to access the
patient information simultaneously
• Instantly retrieves information of previous visits
• Automatically prints charts, prescriptions and other
information
• Provides a list of referral physicians, addresses and
directions
12. Benefits of Hospital Information System from
Doctors point of view
………Improves Communication
• Provides Clinicians access to information throughout the
department via:
· Patient Tracking Display, IMPROVED
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN STAFF, DOCTORS,
PATIENT ..
· Clinical Documentation
· Orders and Results
• Eliminates “lost” patients
• Admissions tracking
• Enables staff to easily prioritize tasks
• Reduces departmental noise
• Provides critical reliability COMMUNICATION
• Sharing of ”complete” medical record
13. Benefits of Hospital Information System from
Doctors point of view
………Reduces Documentation Costs
• Provides documentation templates that
ensure complete documentation
• Increases efficiency with bedside documentation
• provides 100% electronic user-friendly
clinical documentation
• Documentation cost decreases in
terms of maintenance for both
patient and the hospital
14. Benefits of Hospital Information System from
Doctors point of view
..... . Simplifies Reporting
•Eliminates errors in reporting actual values rather
approximate values
• Automatically generates department log
• Reports on patient load enable more accurate
staffing
•Makes easy all the reports (routine, adhoc,
continuous )
15. Benefits of Hospital Information System from
Administrators point of view
... Increases Patient Satisfaction with fewer
complaints
• with prompt scheduling and less waiting time with
few complaints
•Increased access to all types of data
and information sharing
•Able to keep track of accurate happenings at
all the levels and listing the details in
depth
16. Benefits of Hospital Information System from
Administrators point of view
……… Decreases Liability
• Printed discharge instructions and
prescriptions reduce hospital
liability
• Eliminates “lost” patients
• Unresolved issues tracking elimination
1. Decreased documentation omissions
2. Increased patient safety
17. Benefits of Hospital Information System from
Administrators point of view
.. Enhances Hospital Image
•Positive publicity is generated in a high
visibility department
• Assists in attracting and retaining top notch
clinicians
• Boosts staff morale , reduce work time and
improve efficiency
• Customer Service is improved & patient volumes
are increased, making the hospital more profitable
18. Benefits of Hospital Information System from
Administrators point of view
………Increases Accountability
•Reports help focus on department
inefficiencies (infection control audits)
• Automatic reporting provides clear,
meaningful statistics
• Resource for Quality Management, Risk
Management, Strategic Planning &
Infection Control
19. Benefits of Hospital Information System from
Patients point of view
..... Improves Quality of Care
• Provides quality discharge instructions,
prescriptions
• Decreases departmental noise physical
interaction
• Department viewed as state-of-the-art
facility
20. Benefits of Hospital Information System from
Patients point of view
..... Increases Patient Satisfaction
• Decreases waiting times
•Complete documentation
• Decreases length of stay