Hospital Information system

• A hospital information system (HIS) is an element of

health informatics that focuses mainly on the
administrative needs of hospitals.
• A hospital information system HIS), is also called
clinical information system (CIS) is a comprehensive
integrated information system designed to manage the
administrative, financial and clinical aspect of a hospital.
• This encompasses paper based information processing as
well as data processing machines.
• In implementations, a HIS is a comprehensive,
integrated information system designed to
manage all the aspects of a hospital's operation,
such as medical, administrative, financial, and
legal issues and the corresponding processing
of services.
• It can be composed of one or a few software components
with specialty-specific extension as well as of large variety
of sub-systems in medicals specialties (e.g., laboratory
information system, radiology Information system.
• CISs are sometimes separated from HISs , it is
concentrated on patient-related and clinical related data )
electronic patient record) whereas the HIS keeps track of
administrative issues.
 AIM

 The aim of an HIS is to achieve the best

possible support for the patient care and
administration by electronic data processing.
 Architecture

• Hospital Information System architecture has three main

levels, Central Government Level, Territory Level, and
Patient Carrying Level.

• Generally, all types of hospital information system (HIS)

are supported in client-server architectures for
networking and processing.
 Cont…
 The Hospital Information System (HIS) is
designed to improve access to patient
information through a central electronic
information system.
 HIS’s goal is to streamline patient information
flow and its accessibility for doctors and other
health care providers.
 These changes in service will improve patient
care quality and patient safety over time.
 The patient carries system record patient
information, patient laboratory test results, and
patient’s doctor information.
 Doctors can access easily person information,
test results, and previous prescriptions. Patient
schedule organization and early warning
systems can provide by related systems.
 Functional split
 HIS has data warehousing as the main topic, hence a more
static model of information management.
 HIS is often composed of one or several software
components with specialty-specific extensions, as well as
of a large variety of sub-systems in medical specialties.
 Specialized implementations name for example
Laboratory Information System (LIS), Policy and
Procedure Management System, Radiology Information
System (RIS).
 Cont…
 Architecture is based on a distributed approach and
on the utilization of standard software products
complying with the industrial and market standards
must be utilized (such as: UNIX operating systems,
MS-Windows, local area network based on Internet ,
C programming language).
 Portable devices such as smart phones and table
computers may be used at the bedside.
 Objectives
 Hospital Information Systems provide a common source of
information about a patient’s health history.
 The system have to keep data in secure in place and
controls who can reach the data in certain circumstances.
 These systems enhance the ability of health care
professionals to coordinate care by providing a patient’s
health information and visit history at the place and time
that it is needed.
 Patient’s laboratory test information also visual results such
as X-ray may reachable from professionals.
 HIS provide internal and external communication among
health care providers.
• The HIS may control organizations, which is Hospital in
these case, official documentations, financial situation
reports, personal data, utilities and stock amounts, also
keeps in secure place patients information, patients
medical history, prescriptions, operations and laboratory
test results.
• The HIS may protect organizations, handwriting error,
overstock problems, conflict of scheduling personnel,
official documentation errors like tax preparations errors.
 Systems administrator/database administrator
 IT Administrators
 The systems administrator-database administrator is responsible for
systems administration to ensure the high uptime of the system and for
handling all database back-up and restoration activities.
 Application specialist and trainer
 The hospital’s application specialist together with the software vendor
is involved in all the activities required for implementing the
application software. Trainers train and retrain new employees in the
hospital.
 Hardware/network engineers
 Hardware/Network engineers are responsible for maintaining the
hardware and network systems in the hospital. They undertake all
troubleshooting activities that may be required to keep the system
online and patient data available to doctors and nurses.
 Standardization
 Efficient and accurate administration of finance, diet of
patient, engineering, and distribution of medical aid. It helps
to view a broad picture of hospital growth
 Improved monitoring of drug usage, and study of
effectiveness. This leads to the reduction of adverse drug
interactions while promoting more appropriate
pharmaceutical utilization.
 Enhances information integrity, reduces transcription
errors, and reduces duplication of information entries.
 Hospital software is easy to use and eliminates error
caused by handwriting. New technology computer
systems give perfect performance to pull up information
from server or cloud servers.
Standardization is the process of implementing and
developing technical standards based on the consensus of
different parties that include firms, users, interest groups,
standards organizations and governments. Standardization
can help to maximize compatibility, +interoperability, 
safety, repeatability, or quality
+The ability of computer systems or software to exchange
and make use of information.
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