Role of an Effective Hospital Information System in a Depressed Economy

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (02) ◽  
pp. 141-143
Author(s):  
J. A. Olabode ◽  
A. A. Osunlaja
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information System ◽  
Hospital Information System ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Economic Use

Abstract:This work is based on practical experience acquired in the development of a hospital information system in a university hospital in Nigeria. The paper discusses how accurate, adequate and timely medical data can promote economy in health-care delivery in a depressed economy. Existing constraints are identified and solutions offered for an effective hospital information system. An effort has been made to illustrate how the application of informatics technology can be cost effective in the long-term, by ensuring effective and economic use of facilities and resources. Once an effective hospital information is operative, provision of affordable health care in a depressed economy would be feasible. To this end, the need for cooperation between countries to support technology and manpower is emphasized.

scholarly journals The Effective Role of Hospital Information System in Medicine and Healthcare

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 4001-4004
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information System ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Hospital Information System ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Hospital Management ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Care Facilities

In the present day world of development it has become inevitable to supplement the growing population with adequate and proper health facilities and services. Though the hospitals are growing in size quality of service always remains a question mark for them due to the ever incrementing need for medical facilities. Integrating any service with technology always remains as the answer to these varying problems by these public utility services. Hospital information systems are one such variant of integrated technology that aids the hospitals in their everyday issues confronted with them. The multiple varieties of health-care facilities has demanded the creation of Health information technologies (HIT) to give solution for the troubles before they have identified; the increasing expenses and demand for the health- care facilities expecting a lot from the society. Via leveraging HIT with an integration of health center functions and approaches, health Hospital information services (HIS) are frequently followed among most fitness-care centers to fulfill administrative requisites. To fulfill the strategic aim of HIT, it targeted to improve the personal care facilities and cost reduction as a primary factor. The main aim of this paper is understand the basic concept of HIS and its implication on the hospital management. The study attempts to meet its objectives by preparing a questionnaire with regard to the hospital management and receive their opinion on the same for further analysis. Hospital information system (HIS) has the capacity in lowering healthcare expenditure and in enhancing fitness outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of HIS in healthcare in and its different regulatory and organizational settings. This paper targeted to examine the impact of clinic statistics structures in improving health care in hospital. Primary data figures became accumulated through distributing questionnaire to patients, doctors and the staff treating them. At the end of the study it was felt that the integration of technology with any public utility service would benefit the public at large and also give prompt output when needed. Since the technology is a comparatively new one it needs a bit of awareness among the general public to access it also knowledge is required on part of the doctors also to use it in a better and easy manner. One of the most significant elements in health center is to access the computer systems which emphasis the availability of computer and computer systems to facilitate direct and instantaneous information access at the point of care. The process of HIS has increased the time spent in hospital which results in the development of overall performance and responsiveness phases.

The Karolinska Hospital Information System

1974 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 125-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ch. Mellner ◽  
H. Selajstder ◽  
J. Wolodakski
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Hospital Information System ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Processing System ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Data Processing System ◽  
Karolinska Hospital

The paper gives a report on the Karolinska Hospital Information System in three parts.In part I, the information problems in health care delivery are discussed and the approach to systems design at the Karolinska Hospital is reported, contrasted, with the traditional approach.In part II, the data base and the data processing system, named T1—J 5, are described.In part III, the applications of the data base and the data processing system are illustrated by a broad description of the contents and rise of the patient data base at the Karolinska Hospital.

Embodied Spatial Practices and the Power to Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 360-377
Author(s):  
Elise Paradis ◽  
Warren Mark Liew ◽  
Myles Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Critical Care Units ◽  
Interprofessional Care ◽  
The Social

Drawing on an ethnographic study of teamwork in critical care units (CCUs), this chapter applies Henri Lefebvre’s ([1974] 1991) theoretical insights to an analysis of clinicians’ and patients’ embodied spatial practices. Lefebvre’s triadic framework of conceived, lived, and perceived spaces draws attention to the role of bodies in the production and negotiation of power relations among nurses, physicians, and patients within the CCU. Three ethnographic vignettes—“The Fight,” “The Parade,” and “The Plan”—explore how embodied spatial practices underlie the complexities of health care delivery, making visible the hidden narratives of conformity and resistance that characterize interprofessional care hierarchies. The social orderings of bodies in space are consequential: seeing them is the first step in redressing them.

scholarly journals Variable clinical characteristics and laboratory results in five patients with Chinese Good's syndrome (thymoma and hypogammaglobulinemia): an 8-year retrospective analysis in a university hospital in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyao Ni ◽  
Junwu Zhang ◽  
Yanxia Chen ◽  
Weizhong Wang ◽  
Jinlin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Lichen Planus ◽  
Hospital Information System ◽  
Clinical Characteristics ◽  
Opportunistic Infections ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Ivig Treatment ◽  
Good’S Syndrome ◽  
Laboratory Results

Abstract Background Good's syndrome (GS) is a rare secondary immunodeficiency disease presenting as thymoma and hypogammaglobulinemia. Due to its rarity, the diagnosis of GS is often missed. Methods We used the hospital information system to retrospectively screen thymoma and hypogammaglobulinemia patients at the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University from Apr 2012 to Apr 2020. The clinical, laboratory, treatment, and outcome data for these patients were collected and analyzed. Results Among the 181 screened thymoma patients, 5 thymoma patients with hypogammaglobulinemia were identified; 3 patients had confirmed diagnoses of GS, and the other 2 did not have a diagnosis of GS recorded in the hospital information system. A retrospective review of the clinical characteristics, laboratory results, and follow-up data for these 2 undiagnosed patients confirmed the diagnosis of GS. All 5 GS patients presented with pneumonia, 2 patients presented with recurrent skin abscesses, 2 patients presented with recurrent cough and expectoration, 1 patient presented with recurrent oral lichen planus and diarrhea, and 1 patient presented with tuberculosis and granulomatous epididymitis. In the years after the diagnosis of hypogammaglobulinemia with mild symptoms, all 5 patients had received irregular intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) treatment. As the course of the disease progressed, the clinical symptoms of all patients worsened, but the symptoms were partly resolved with IVIG in these patients. However, 4 patients died due to comorbidities. Conclusion GS should be investigated as a possible diagnosis in thymoma patients who present with hypogammaglobulinemia, especially those with recurrent opportunistic infections, recurrent skin abscesses, chronic diarrhea, or recurrent lichen planus.

Evaluation Study of Different Strategies for Detecting Surgical Site Infections Using the Hospital Information System at Lyon University Hospital, France

2012 ◽  
Vol 255 (5) ◽  
pp. 896-900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solweig Gerbier-Colomban ◽  
Monique Bourjault ◽  
Jean-Charles Cêtre ◽  
Jacques Baulieux ◽  
Marie-Hélène Metzger
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Hospital Information System ◽  
Surgical Site Infections ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
University Hospital

scholarly journals Innovation Pathways in the NHS: An Introductory Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anmol Arora ◽  
Andrew Wright ◽  
Mark Cheng ◽  
Zahra Khwaja ◽  
Matthew Seah
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Care Models ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Introductory Review

AbstractHealthcare as an industry is recognised as one of the most innovative. Despite heavy regulation, there is substantial scope for new technologies and care models to not only boost patient outcomes but to do so at reduced cost to healthcare systems and consumers. Promoting innovation within national health systems such as the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom (UK) has been set as a key target for health care professionals and policy makers. However, while the UK has a world-class biomedical research industry, several reports in the last twenty years have highlighted the difficulties faced by the NHS in encouraging and adopting innovations, with the journey from idea to implementation of health technology often taking years and being very expensive, with a high failure rate. This has led to the establishment of several innovation pathways within and around the NHS, to encourage the invention, development and implementation of cost-effective technologies that improve health care delivery. These pathways span local, regional and national health infrastructure. They operate at different stages of the innovation pipeline, with their scope and work defined by location, technology area or industry sector, based on the specific problem identified when they were set up. In this introductory review, we outline each of the major innovation pathways operating at local, regional and national levels across the NHS, including their history, governance, operating procedures and areas of expertise. The extent to which innovation pathways address current challenges faced by innovators is discussed, as well as areas for improvement and future study.

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