A detailed view of Hospital Management System (HMS)
What is Hospital Management System (HMS)?
HMS came into the picture of hospital management as early as 1960 and have ever since been evolving and synchronizing with the technologies while modernizing healthcare facilities. In today’s world, the management of healthcare starts from the hands of the patients through their mobile phones and facilitates the needs of the patient.
Hospital management system is a computer system that helps manage the information related to health care and aids in the job completion of health care providers effectively. They manage the data related to all departments of healthcare such as,
* Clinical
* Financial
* Laboratory
* Operation theater
*Inpatient / Outpatient
* Radiology
Why is HMS important for a hospital?
HMS was introduced to solve the complications coming from managing all the paper works of every patient associated with the various departments of hospitalization with confidentiality. HMS provides the ability to manage all the paperwork in one place, reducing the work of staff in arranging and analyzing the paperwork of the patients. HMS does many works like:
* Save the insurance information for later reference* Tracking the bill payments.
* Maintain the contact details of the patient
* Maintain the medical records of the patient
The advantages of HMS can be pinpointed to the following:
* Improved Efficiency by avoiding human errors
* Data security and correct data retrieval made possible
* Reduces scope for Error
* Easy access to patient data with correct patient history
* Better Audit controls and policy compliance.
* Easy monitoring of supplies in inventory
* Reduces the work of documentation
* Better Audit controls and policy compliance.
* Time-saving Technology
Features of Hospital Management System:
Appointment Management - For hospitals having their own site, appointment widgets will be integrated onto the site. Patients visiting the hospital’s website can book online appointments with ease.
Prescription Management - Manage commonly and recently used medicines. Option to show medicines available in the pharmacy. SMS prescriptions to Patients.
Pharmacy Management - Comprehensive Pharmacy Management handles stock, Prescription Integration, Ward Request, Stock Management, Stock Moment and intelligent reports.
Manage Multiple Locations - Any number of branches can be added and managed using a single account.
Lab Management - Comprehensive Lab Management handles complete order management, Custom Reports, Smart Notifications, Credit Settlement, detailed MIS Reports, Analytics and App for Phlebotomist.
Benefits of Hospital Management System:
Easy Patient data retrieval- HMS makes it possible to access all the data related to a patient via a system by the means of a few simple clicks. Information like patient history, current illness, doctors involved, tests reports taken, billing information and many more can be made visible to the user. These data will help to connect the dots about the patient, like specific diagnosis, related treatment, and medication.
The Electronic Medical Record (EMR)or Electronic Health Record (EHR)- This electronic-based medical record system can be viewed as a patient’s health chart. It retrieves information based on the patient’s name or medical record number or the physician’s record number.
Increased Data security - The patient data can be kept a hundred percent safe by using HMS in your hospital. It can be made accessible by only a limited amount of authorized personnel. With HMS, all the data is stored on a server or cloud and kept safe by just securing the login information safe.
Cost Effective - HMS not only saves time in the hospital but also is cost-effective in decreasing the number of people working on the system of manual entry of data and paperwork. The implementation of His will decrease the human intervention into the system thereby avoiding human-caused errors.
Every hospital has different needs, analyze what is best for your requirement and install the apt HMS system.
