SmartHospital - Integrated Hospital Record Management and Diagnostic System INTRODUCTION The business world is changing at a rapid pace

and in the milieu of changing bus iness dynamics; Hospital Management is assuming unprecedented importance. For a large Medical outfit, Multi-country, Multi-location, Multi-divisional oper ations make hospital operations even more challenging. In the modern world, the cost of productivity is more than capital costs hence; managing the available resources of a medical centre has be come very crucial for success and survival of the organization. Today it has become mandatory for every medical outfit, big or small, simple or complex to manage all the available valuable resources such as manpower, equipment, and pro cedures with due care and attention. This is true not only of the physical assets but al so for the soft assets that form an important element for every modern organization. Productivity, Quality of Products and Services, Cost of Operations and Perpetuat ion of healthy growth of an enterprise have always been the watchwords for each and every CEO a ll over the world. One can easily appreciate that all these objectives have a direct relatio nship with proper management of Capital and valuable resources of any medical organization. Additionally in the new global economic order, the norms of performance the benc hmarks are not restricted to any single country. They have become global in the true sense of the term. In this situation the need for smart and reliable Hospital Management System cannot be over emphasized. Continuous availability of well detailed and up-to-date medical and pharmaceutic al information and effective diagnostic helper need not be over emphasized in any medical insti tution. There is a very close link between financial aspects and operational aspect of Hospital m anagement activities. This complex task indeed needs effective IT system that can address this need of the Modern organizations. A well defined and easy to operate Hospital management system offered by Microwa re Computer Solutions can go a long way in providing active information for the man agement of the medical outfit. SmartHospital is a comprehensive Hospital diagnostics and record management syst em that can handle this challenge. The main objectives of this system are enumerated bel ow. SOME PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY MEDICAL DIRECTORS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THEIR HOSPITAL There are many impediments a medical director has to face while trying to manage the activities of the hospital. The most important issue that is seen in real practice is the f act that there is lack of timely and effective data for the operations the hospital. Many times the inf ormation available is scattered all over the organisation and is not available in the correct forma

t and worthy of actions. Many difficulties faced by the people in this crucial function are enum erated below for quick perusal. There is lack of attention for the compilation of the data on the hospital asset s. This activity 1 / 3 SmartHospital - Integrated Hospital Record Management and Diagnostic System is perceived to be laborious and hence normally no body wants to own it up. No function in particular is responsible, at times capable, of generating the in puts for the various medical databases. Lack of suitable method and codification system for logical compilation of the d ata elements required. The changes incorporated in the asset/ facility is never updated in the records. No standardized method of keeping track of patients movements and transfers. When everything runs smoothly nobody has time and motivation to update medical r ecords. Only when they have an emergency they start to think about the data and action o riented information. This is a real problem. No timely and efficient trace of patients in the hospital and even their medical history. At present many organizations use manual or semi-automated processes that are no t very effective for action purposes other than the financial data. SmartHospital has been designed to handle these problems and aid in the drive fo r excellence and profit improvement for the hospital in the modern era. OBJECTIVES To help the organization to keep track of every facet of operational data for th e daily financial transaction within and outside the hospital for effective management, conservati on and maximum harnessing of the hospital s income. To keep a financial track of all the transactions associated with the patients. To help the hospital have an ad hoc information on the financial status of all t he patients, providing timely and accurate information on their bills, payments and outstandi ng. To give timely and action oriented financial information for the hospital manage ment. To maintain log of important financial transactions in the tenure of the patient s in the hospital. To provide charge information and related data for the medical staff. To maintain supplier Database for drugs and other medical / pharmaceutical asset s of the hospital. To register, classify, codify and compile operating information for the hospital facilities, equipment, services and personnel and financial activities in the form of master databases. To help the hospital have an electronic and online bio data and medical history of all their patients and also be able to trace the position of each and every patients activ ities at any given time. To maintain operating specifications and documentations for those that are cruci

al to the effective management and maintenance of the hospital. To provide time schedules and reminders facilities for the medical staff. To provide online primary observations, consultations, diagnosis and drug dispen sation. To provide online integration of laboratory tests and results with other modules of the application. To provide for proper administration of hospital wards and theatres, keeping tra ck of the status of all the patients in the IPD. To provide ad hoc and periodic reports on all the transactions. To provide quick reference for the logistics and administrative details pertaini ng to the hospital assets and services. 2 / 3 SmartHospital - Integrated Hospital Record Management and Diagnostic System To provide suitable calendar and time schedule for the hospital staff. SMARTHOSPITAL CORE MODULES Shown below is the main navigation centre of the application, which is opened to the user after a successful login to the engine. From this point the user can navigate to the v arious modules. Also, the user s access rights and group will determine the menu items that will b e made available for him. The entire system is made up of the following modules: OPD Primary Observation Doctors Consultation IPD Wards Theatre Diagnostics Pharmacy Administration 3 / 3