After successfully implementing a pilot project in Gandhinagar Civil Hospital, the Government now plans to introduce the computerised Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) in all 25 district-level hospitals along with six major hospitals across Gujarat. The Rs 25 crore HIMS project envisages to not only help administrators monitor better and control the functioning of government-run hospitals, but also assist doctors and medical staff to improve health services with a ready-reference patient data.
“The networking and infrastructure work under HMIS is almost complete in as many as 11 other government-run hospitals including Vadodara’s Jamnabai Hospital and also in the Rajkot, Nadiad and Sola hospitals. By the year end, the IT application will be be in place in all 25 district hospitals and six other major hospitals in State,” says Joint Secretary (Health) Mona Khandhar.
“After going hi-tech under HMIS, all these government-run hospitals will be connected with the State Health Commissionerate and the Secretariat in Gandhinagar, which will help us plan better and take prompt and vital policy decisions to tone up the hospital administration and improve health services,” Khandhar said.
The various software modules prepared under the system relate to hospital administration, patients’ medical history data, number of indoor/outdoor patients registered daily, laboratory tests, accounting and billing of drug purchases and inventory, patients’ complaints and their redressal, blood bank, trauma/nursing care, biomedical waste management, human resources, linen management and medical equipment maintenance. An employee information system module has also been prepared to track the latest position on attendance of medical staff, including doctors.
“HMIS has started yielding positive results in our hospital. Sitting in my office, it takes just a click of mouse to know how many indoor/outdoor patients are being treated daily or whether the attendance of medical and para-medical staff is enough to attend to them. Even our bosses in the State Health Commissionerate and the Secretariat can easily access all the relevant data on their computers,” says Gandhinagar Civil Hospital Superintendent Dr N B Dholakia.
“With the registration of these records being digitized, the drudgery of manually registration and maintaining patient’s medical records has finally gone. Each patient is being given a unique identity number so any doctor attending to him can track his medical history even if the patient misplaces his case papers,” explains Dholakia.
One of the unique features of HMIS is that a patient registered in a government hospital in a particular district can avail medical treatment in any other district as long as it is covered under the computerized system. HIMS has been developed by data Consultancy Services (TCS) on Microsoft.NET technology with SQL Server as the data store, with its software being Menu-driven. The computerized system also supports data exchange integration with other biomedical equipment and applications.
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“The networking and infrastructure work under HMIS is almost complete in as many as 11 other government-run hospitals including Vadodara’s Jamnabai Hospital and also in the Rajkot, Nadiad and Sola hospitals. By the year end, the IT application will be be in place in all 25 district hospitals and six other major hospitals in State,” says Joint Secretary (Health) Mona Khandhar.
“After going hi-tech under HMIS, all these government-run hospitals will be connected with the State Health Commissionerate and the Secretariat in Gandhinagar, which will help us plan better and take prompt and vital policy decisions to tone up the hospital administration and improve health services,” Khandhar said.
The various software modules prepared under the system relate to hospital administration, patients’ medical history data, number of indoor/outdoor patients registered daily, laboratory tests, accounting and billing of drug purchases and inventory, patients’ complaints and their redressal, blood bank, trauma/nursing care, biomedical waste management, human resources, linen management and medical equipment maintenance. An employee information system module has also been prepared to track the latest position on attendance of medical staff, including doctors.
“HMIS has started yielding positive results in our hospital. Sitting in my office, it takes just a click of mouse to know how many indoor/outdoor patients are being treated daily or whether the attendance of medical and para-medical staff is enough to attend to them. Even our bosses in the State Health Commissionerate and the Secretariat can easily access all the relevant data on their computers,” says Gandhinagar Civil Hospital Superintendent Dr N B Dholakia.
“With the registration of these records being digitized, the drudgery of manually registration and maintaining patient’s medical records has finally gone. Each patient is being given a unique identity number so any doctor attending to him can track his medical history even if the patient misplaces his case papers,” explains Dholakia.
One of the unique features of HMIS is that a patient registered in a government hospital in a particular district can avail medical treatment in any other district as long as it is covered under the computerized system. HIMS has been developed by data Consultancy Services (TCS) on Microsoft.NET technology with SQL Server as the data store, with its software being Menu-driven. The computerized system also supports data exchange integration with other biomedical equipment and applications.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com