Hospital Management System-Features, Objectives
A hospital management system is a software designed to manage all the areas of a hospital such as
medical, financial, administrative and the corresponding processing of
services.
Features
HL-7(Health Level-7) interfaces
across all modules that facilitate standards conformance.
Flow of the financial data with centralized information to the payer modules.
Data for the management
reviews displays graphically by executive information system (EIS) .
The billing, insurance
processing modules effectively process clinical data for efficient payout for
health encounters.
Objectives
Main objectives of a Hospital Management System are:
Design a system for
better patient care.
Reduce hospital
operating costs.
Provide MIS (Management Information System) report on demand to management for better decision making.
Better co-ordination among
the different departments.
Provide top management
a single point of control.
Hospital management System
handles activities of major departments in a hospital like:
1.Front Office/OPD
Management
2. Patient management (scheduling,
registration and long-term care)
3. Patient care
management and departmental modules (radiology, pharmacy and pathology labs)
4. Investigative Labs
5. Billing
6. Medical Stores
7. Financial Accounting
(billing, insurance processing, materials management, accounts
payable/receivable, payroll and general ledger)
8. Payroll
Hospital management
system can be developed by using waterfall model which is a popular version of
development life cycle model for software engineering. It describes a
development method that is linear and sequential. It has distinct goals for
each phase of development. In this model once, a phase of development is
completed, there is no turning back, the development proceeds to the next phase.
The advantage of this model is that it allows for departmentalization and
managerial control.
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