HOSPITAL

INFORMATION SYSTEM
Mohamed Ali
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER
ASPEN MEDICAL
 Contents
• What is a Hospital Information System?
• Problem encountered
• Purpose
• Functions
• How it works
• System Requirements
• Advantages
 What is a Hospital Information
system
• It is an information system where data and information
handled in a hospital environment.
• It is basically designed to manage patients and the
information related to them.
• The health status of the patients shall be gathered and
predicted.
 Problems encountered
• Paper-based systems generally cause disadvantages and
problems to hospital when handling data and information
• Safe recording the patients details cannot be guaranteed
as they can be potentially destroyed by fire and water.
• There are possible chances of misplacing data and
information by the staffs.
 Purpose
• The main objective for designing system is to manage
patient data and information in centralized way.
• This system shall replace the traditional methods of
entering and storing data and information using paper
• To provide a better health service to patients with
tremendous accuracy.
 Functions
• Make appointments with respective doctors.
• Manage staff and patient reservations
• Conduct payments and other transactions online.
• Perform live conversations with doctor regarding about
health tips.
• Manage staff and customer accounts within the
information system
• Upload and watch demo videos on the sickness and
relevant cure
 How it works?
• The hospital information system shall function as an online system
spanning across the relevant hospital network through the intranet
• In this system, database servers are used to store information on
the medicines that are required to cure the relevant sickness
• Appointment to the respective doctors shall be made online
• It shall also be used to manage patient and payment records
• Since this information system consumes the facilities of the world
wide web, it can be constantly updated for any necessary changes
 System Requirements
• Operational Requirements
• Up-to-date factual information
• Necessary for day to day tasks
• Planning Requirements
• Short and long term decisions about patient care
• Diaster recovery
• Decisions about hospital management
 System Requirements
• Documentation requirements
• The maintenance of records
• Accreditation
• Legal record
• Appointments fro consulting a doctor
• IT Facilities for Physical Scanning such as ECG, and X-Ray.
 System Requirements
• Hardware Requirements
• Computer systems
• Wifi Router
• Switch
• Ethernet cables
• A physical system server
 Advantages
• Reducing of paper-based work to enter and store medical
records
• Reducing medical errors caused by certain inaccuracies
and doctor’s handwriting
• Reducing medical cost and preventing any causes of re-
testing
• Reducing medical errors leading to health quality
improvement.
Thank you