HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR RIPHAH INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL ISLAMABAD

Abstract

Riphah Hospital has been operating in Westridge since 1996 and has been constantly growing. The management quest for continuous improvement has resulted in several process improvement measures, including a feasibility study for the HMIS. A comprehensive solution is to be designed and implemented to automate the activities of RIPHAH IMMCT Pakistan Railway General Hospital Westridge Rawalpindi with an easy-to-use user interface. It has the capability to administer the total enterprise and efficiently manage the operations of the hospital. The services that are to be offered to the hospital by this management system are: patient registration module, clinical management, ward management with respect to specialty segregating CCUs and ICUs, radiology management, and pathology management. This information system provides an efficient means for the effective data collection, storage, processing, and retrieval of patients coming and being diagnosed at the hospital. A large number of entry forms are being used for capturing, processing, storing, and retrieving the data and information about the patients. The system will not only hold information about the patients but also about different other entities such as doctors, nurses, employees, and other concerned staff members. Also, the system will carry information about the inventory of the pharmacy and also hold a point-of-sale system that carries information about the sales and purchase records for medicines and other medicated products. The proposed system will ease the operations of the hospital by consuming less time and working more efficiently. HMIS is a hospital management information system. It is designed for a multi functional organization and covers a range of hospital management and operational processes. It is an integrated application with a front-end developer and Oracle as the database. HMIS will be secured at different levels by providing different logins to superusers and other users of the system. HMIS has the portability and connectivity to run on virtually all standard hardware platforms, along with stringent data security and easy recovery in case of system failure. Some of the features of HMIS are that it is user-friendly, has a graphic user interface, is modular, integrated, easy to use, and can be analyzed. It is secure and easy to run and install on different devices