Hospital Management Information System

Hospitals are responsible for health and best treatment of patients across the globe. For this reason, most of the hospitals are equipped with a powerful Hospital Management System to accelerate treatments of the patients and organize day-to-day activities of a hospital. Hospital Management System (HMS) or Hospital Information System (HIS) or Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) is a comprehensive electronic tool which gathers, categorizes, and organizes administrative, clinical and financial data and retrieves it with computer system and hand over it to the decision makers for utilizing. HMS is not only enhances decision making in the healthcare industry by providing patient records and data to the service providers but also plays a significant role in growth of an organizational performance. It is a versatile software system for integration of information related to patients for exchanging useful data between the departments of a hospital to speed up patient care...

The rapid growth in the information technology (IT) in all aspects of life has developed policies to take maximum advantages of these information systems. Many hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare institutions either use or are considering to implement the software system. Now, hospital administrators have recognized IT as a powerful tool to enhance patient care and productivity. Hospital Information Systems (HIS) have great potential in reducing healthcare cost and in improving health outcomes. Most hospitals around the globe are rapidly moving towards implementing a hospital information system from a paper-based health information records for enhanced patient care facility. With the old paper based medical records system, the heavy volume and variety of health records caused various problems in the delivery of best patient care. Paper-based healthcare patient records can be misplaced easily thus can lead serious issues in a hospital and badly impacts the planning of care,...