Volume : X, Issue : IV, April - 2020

THE HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (HMIS): A JOURNEY TO PAPERLESS HOSPITALS

Vijay Kumar Tadia, Shubhang Gupta

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Background: In recent years, there has been growing global emphasis on the need for Hospital Management Information Systems (HMIS)(1). A lot of studies have shown the benefits of implementing HMIS(2)(3)(4)(5)(6). The evolving paradigm shift resulting from IT, social and technological changes has created a need for developing an innovative knowledge–based healthcare system and the Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) is developed with this sole aim in mind. (7) Although information gathering, processing, communication, and management are essential to health care delivery, the health care sector as a whole has historically trailed far behind most other industries in investments in information/ communications technologies.(8)(9) METHODOLOGY: A descriptive observational study at two tertiary Care Hospitals in a metropolitan city of India from April 2012 to December 2012. Both the hospitals were located at two different places in the same city and were managed by single administrative set up, the Main hospital & Associated hospital. These hospitals were selected as these were among the few hospitals in India that had implemented an organisation–wide Hospital Management Information Systems. Purposive sampling was used to select Key Informants (KI). The KIs included the Hospital Administrators (Main hospital and Associated hospital), HOD/Incharge Radio–diagnosis; PACS engineer and technicians. Unstructured Interviews were conducted with Key Informants to understand HMIS. Documentation Review was also performed to gather data. The analysis of data was done with the help Microsoft Suite. RESULTS: The journey towards paperless hospitals started with formation of a Project Team, Collection of the User Specific Requirements (URS), detailed description of Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and Preparation of a System Design Document (SDD). With the blueprint of URS and the SDD in hand, the management decided to go ahead with the actual process of computerization. Hospital Information System (HIS) which was gradually adopted at Main hospital & Associated hospital included various Modules. CONCLUSIONS: The journey to paperless hospitals is a gradual process. Different hospitals undertake this journey based on their need assessment and availability of the resources. Few hospitals go in for prefaicated solutions and few opt for indigenous development of hospital management information systems. This is one of the major decisions that can make or mar the success of the hospital management information systems in a hospital

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THE HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (HMIS): A JOURNEY TO PAPERLESS HOSPITALS, Vijay Kumar Tadia, Shubhang Gupta INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-10 | Issue-4 | April-2020

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