 IT use to be a secondary dept. since need of It was not realized.  The main work use to be troubleshooting and maintenance of network infrastructure.

Today IT professionals in health care or hospitals deals with analyzing the requirements of the hospitals to make their work more efficient & less time consuming and developing applications they need and implementation and maintenance of the same. IT in Hospitals has been used in following Applications:  HIS  EMR  E-prescriptions  E-health  Telecommunication  CDSS

Hospital Information System (HIS) can be defined as a comprehensive, integrated information system designed to manage the administrative, financial and clinical aspects of a hospital that enable better quality of patient care, reduce the time spent for clerical works, reduce the overall cost, increase the productivity and more important providing the more reliable, correct and regular data.  The computer hardware and software that processes a hospital's data, including financial, Pt-related, and 'strategic' management data, Pt accounts, Pt tracking, payroll, reimbursements, taxes, statistics

 Registration  Admission  OPD/IPD  Pharmacy  Laboratory  Billing  Blood Bank  Medical Equipment Management  Personnel Management  MIS reporting & more  Pharmacy  Nursing  HR

 Capture & disseminate Information  Analyze & validate Information  Prioritize & Escalate Issues  Provide Management overview

 Doctors  Administrators  Patients  Partners & providers  Management & regulators

 Modular  User Friendly  Integrated Functionality  Easy to customize  High level of security  Low Hardware Requirements  Low Cost of ownership  High ROI  Shortcut keyboard Function

Support For maximum hospital procedure GUI Integration with the Third party accounting software Auto Test result Generation DICOM picture viewing Integration with PACs User defined Statistical Reports Integration with TPAs

 Napier  Shrishti  Wipro G(lot of small installations0  Charak(Birlas)  Medtrack(Fortis,Pushpanjali)  Isoft(Medicity & Artemis)  Accurate  Akhil (Paras & BL Kapoor)

It is required to facilitate the exchange of Information or patient records as none of them is stand alone application.  PACS  Back Office Applications(Asset & Inventory Mgmt,Billing,financial & administrative modules)  EMR

 Billing Module  Inventory Module  Consignment Module  Discharge Summery

 After the discharge of patient discharge summary can be automatically generated with just few press of keys(i.e its preparation started fr0m the moment patient entered the IPD). Laboratory data can automatically be imported. Specialty wise standard format can be set.

I.Basic Elements  Date of admission.  Date of discharge.  Disposition location (eg, home, ecf, short-term rehab).  Principal diagnosis for hospitalization.  Secondary diagnoses addressed during hospitalization.  Procedures performed during hospitalization.  Consultants

II. History  A succinct summary of the key events leading to hospitalization.  The past medical history.  Pertinent elements of the social history.  Pertinent elements of the family history III. Physical Exam  Findings (positive or negative) pertinent to history elements. IV. Data  Pertinent (normal and abnormal) laboratory data.  Pertinent results of diagnostic studies (e.G., Cxr, ekg).

V. Hospital Course  Summary statement pertaining to the principal diagnosis.  Problem list that parallels the diagnoses listed  Separate paragraph dedicated to each problem listed.  Brief discussion of the evaluation of each problem.  Brief discussion of the treatment of each problem.  Brief discussion of the outcome of each problem.  Specific follow-up plan for each relevant problem

VI. Discharge Plan  Future physician’s visits scheduled (or to be scheduled).  Specific studies that require follow-up  a list of discharge medications (names, doses, & frequency).  mention of how information was/will be communicated to PMD.  “cc” to treating physicians. VII. Additional comments or suggestions

Workflow of Inventory(Basic workflow) Purchase department Main store Sub holding store Consumed Chargeable Non chargeable Purchase Department Central Medical store Central Pharmacy Store

An Inventory Module Should facilitate the sequence wise Processes as follows Purchase Dept(Rate contract) Purchase Requisition from different dept Approved & authorized Order is placed Goods delivered Goods Checking Goods Receiving Note Stocked Central store Items Issued Departmental sub Store