The IT system have great
impact in the field of medicine. A hospital management system is a web based
system that manages the functioning of the hospital or medical set up1. It
integrates all the information regarding patients, doctors, staff, hospital
administrative details and so on. Doctors section include includes
doctors’ emergency numbers and also they can check his schedule and that of
other doctors too. Here it includes list of the available medicines for
specific diseases so that the doctor can easily look for an alternative. The
patient can be given an appointment referring to the doctors’ schedule. The use
of HMS makes the co-ordination between a doctor and patient easy.
The great benefit is that using HMS one can quickly check the availability
of rooms/beds so that the receptionist can adjust transfer of patients from one
ward to another or allot the bed to the new patient. This section also includes
the detailed schedule of the operation theatres and helps the receptionist or
the nurses to know which theatres are vacant to slot other surgeries. HMS includes names and timings of the nurses
and ward boys on duty with their respective ward numbers. Then the instructions
given to the nurse for each patient are entered in the system.
Main inventory can be maintained about the stock of supplies
in the hospital like surgical instruments,
medications, laboratory supplies, stationary, staff supplies, etc. It helps the
administration to have a quick look at the usage and keep a control on the
wastage of the supplies. A separate automated section is meant for billing
purposes. And these software helps to sum up all the expenses of a patient at
one time and produce a complete bill at the end of the consultation or at
discharge. Here it saves time and effort for each department as they need not
produce separate
The respective insurance company can check the details and
further the process. The data is then stored in the database and hence can be
recovered for any later use by the hospital or patient or insurance company. HMS
can store the basic information of the employees including contact numbers and
address along with professional details. Every new employee is registered in
the system and medical details of the employees also can be entered for their
benefit.
All the data in a HMS is integrated and can be analysed which
helps in creating a statistical database
for the internal use of the hospital which can be submitted to the
administration. It also helps the administration in summarizing the expenses of
the hospital and evaluating the necessary and unnecessary expenditure. HMS can
be used for providing online services to patients, appointments and obtaining
opinions of consultants sitting away from the hospital set up. For more
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