What is Hospital Management System?
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16 February, 2017Hospitals have become the essential part of our lives, and we often require their services now and then.
So, it becomes necessary that hospital should keep track of patient’s reports. Sometimes it becomes a task to manage
a multispecialty hospital and here HMS comes into play. Hospital Management System is an integrated software system, which makes clinical, administrative and other back office activities paperless and you save a lot of time as it manages all the aspects of various hospital operations.
Healthcare IT solutions are cost effective and are competent enough to improve the healthcare services by managing patient records, bills. On the other hand, medical practitioners can easily organize and manage their business through this software.
Why do you need HMS?
Technology is the need of an hour, and it makes things more effective and efficient.
Technology serves as a bridge between people and the healthcare system and results in better healthcare services. Hospital staff is also gaining insight into these new technologies to deliver the best to their patients by providing them necessary time and comfort.
Healthcare business is becoming competitive day by day as the patient’s inflow is increasing in the healthcare centers. Further, to be ahead in the race, each healthcare needs to adopt modern ways to deliver best services to their patients. Some of the hospitals are still paper-based, and this consumes a lot of time and resources. On the other hand, many have adopted a modern system for managing their daily tasks and other administrative tasks to maintain a proper inflow of patients in their hospitals. This new system of management is Hospital Management system, which is a cloud-based system. It takes care of hospital finances, operations, and administrative tasks and offers seamlessly running of the healthcare. New Age hospital management system requires various modules for the proper functioning of their various departments. So, let us have a look at these modules which our Clarity HMS has.
What modules does our HMS offer?
Administrator
This is the main module of the HMS. Admin has all the rights and permission to handle other modules of the hospitals via HMS. Admin can manage departments of hospitals. Admin can manage various accounts such as doctors, patients, accountant, etc. Admin can add doctors, nurses and can watch transaction reports of patient payment, blood bank report, medicine stock status, birth reports, death reports, bed, ward, admit the history of the patient and much more. Admin can also create a backup and restore it anytime.
Other modules are:
Patient Management:
This module deals with overall patient care and management related to Reception desk, OPD, IPD, Laboratory, Radiology etc. It also manages appointments, visitor and various aspects of Indoor and Outdoor patients.
- Reception desk
This module makes front desk office work easy by speeding up patient’s registration process, scheduling appointments and providing further information related to a patient. This module eliminates any scope for a mistake as it removes and checks duplicate junk entry.
Both small and large multi-specialty hospitals consist of various departments, and scheduling appointments and managing staff become a task. At this module comes into action , and it provides detailed as well as a clear view of schedules of various physicians of each department and their availability within the hospital so that further appointments could be scheduled. In the case of unavailability of a particular doctor, HMS is capable of rescheduling and reassigning appointments.This module also consists of information of the patients, doctors, departments and employees in the hospital, visitors visiting the hospital premises. The system uses the BI to give you the performance of the same in terms of availability, performance, etc. - OPD and IPD Management
As hospitals are flooded with patients, and for providing better healthcare services, a hospital has to manage all the requirements of the patients. Gradually, it becomes a huge task for a hospital to take care of all the components such as admissions, bed management, nurse management, transfers, insurance, and discharge. HMS is competent enough to offer configurable workflow, store information and retrieve it whenever it is necessary.Moreover, registration of the patient is the vital part of the hospital before undergoing any consultations, observations from the hospitals. Registration involves recording certain demographic information about the patient. A Unique registration ID or ‘UHID number’( Unique Healthcare Identification Number) is created for each patient. Now, this number is stored in the hospital for future references. The record of family details of patients can also be entered in the database .It also includes the OPD billing involves the record of all the services being taken by the OPD patients.
- IPD:
This modules deal with the In-patient Management. This takes cares of the complete cycle when the patient has been allotted a bed in the ward to when he is discharged. Patient’s complete diagnosis, treatment record is recorded in the database during his stay in the hospital.
- Laboratory:
Maintaining EHR records is primarily important for the smooth running of the hospitals.HMS provides effective Electronic Health Records Management System which not only includes the medical history of the patient but also stores lab reports, X-ray and other investigative reports, admission and procedure notes, medical record tracking. This system is accessible to patients as well as doctor and which ensures timely treatment. It provides ease to both patient and doctor.
- Radiology:
This module takes care of all the radiology services. This module covers X-Ray, CT scan, MRI test. It includes registration, billing, test reports and also shows the status of various test whether they are done, pending, on hold, etc.
- Ward Management
This module takes care of room /ward allocation to the patient once the patient is admitted to the IPD. There are various key features of this module such as
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It assigns beds to the patients.
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It distinguishes between new IPD patients or some internally transferred patient.
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It allocates the nursing staff and manages the nursing scheduling.
Stores and Pharmacy:
This module deals with the record keeping of the medicine stock and others. This module integrates the purchasing department with the requisition making units like beds/rooms/wards/departments of the hospital. This module takes care of the readily available stock, so that hospital store does not run out of stock.
HR and Personnel Management:
This module controls the payroll features of your hospital such as daily attendance, leaves, pay slips, bonus, and incentives, salary, substitute management. HMS, Payroll module is so accurate that there is no need to crosscheck the salaries of various staff members. This module help in managing and scheduling working hours of the hospital staff such as Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, technicians and office staff. It also maintains the rotational shifts of the hospital staff.
Finance Management:
As a lot of billing and accounting is carried in the hospitals, so they require the good finance module, which eliminates a need for any paperwork. This module should not be merely restricted to the billings and insurance but also takes care of purchase, inventory, consumption tracking, and stock damage, returns and re-orders, pharmacy sales, cashless billing and much more.
Clinical Services:
Operation Theatres Management: This module tracks all types of operation and surgeries taking place in the hospital. Moreover, it schedules operation theaters and takes care of various surgical requirements. It also covers details regarding surgeons, patient monitoring, blood reports, consultants, anesthetics, equipment& more.
- Sterilization (CSSD): The Central Sterile Services Department’s (CSSD) objective is to provide sterile items, equipment to wards and OT’s.
- Blood Bank Management: This module deals with the Blood Bank management of a hospital. It takes care of donors’ database, blood management, blood requisition, cross matching & more
- Physiotherapy: This module helps the physiotherapist to keep the record of the patient. It takes care of the exercise and electro therapies too.
This module also covers the miscellaneous services such as:
- Ambulance Management
- Housekeeping
- Laundry
- Dietary
- Maintenance
- Waste Management
- Mortuary Management
All these above highlighted modules are available in Allengers HMS system, and it will take care of all the necessary requirements of your healthcare. Our software provides a patient-based mechanism that is capable of handling inpatients, outpatients, and emergency and much more.
How can HMS benefit your hospital?
- Reduces man made errors:
Hospital is a place where there is no room for errors, and the manual system cannot be error free. This automated management system eliminates the chances of any error in the medical reports.
- Speed up Decision making:
HMS enables a healthcare professional to view patient’s records, clinical documents, prescription, diagnosis at a single view and this result in a timely decision.
- Improves data security:
HMS is highly secured, and it is not vulnerable to data thefts like other manual systems. Hospitals can keep their information secure from any unauthorized person. In HMS, everything is handled by the access-controlled system and yet leaves no scope for errors.
- Improved Patient interaction:
This software strengthens doctor and patient relation and makes it more interactive and improves the communication for better treatment.
- Web-based:
HMS is web based hence is cost-effective.
- Appointments:
People can schedule their appointment with a particular doctor online.
- Payments:
HMS gives access to make online payments and processing of claims can also be done easily.
- Sharing:
It enables sharing of information between healthcare specialists.
- Technically advanced:
This is a highly advanced system, which handles all the operations of a hospital. The hospital which is capable of sending patients information electronically becomes the most preferred choice of the people as they can choose their doctor and get the test reports timely without any hassle.
Our Clients:
Allengers believes in building long term relationship with their clients by providing good services. We measure our progress in terms of our client satisfaction. See what are clients have to say about our HMS system:
1. “We have been using Allenger’s Hospital Information System (Pearl) for quite some time now and it has aided us a lot in the effective management and maintenance of our hospital data and eliminated to a large extent the need for manual book-keeping. The software solution is quite comprehensive and user-friendly and their implementation team quite cooperative and efficient in their approach.”
– Ashok Gupta
Ambuja Group (HMS)
2.“We would also like to take this opportunity to state that we are satisfied with the functioning of Allengers HMS at our Grecian Hospital, where it is being used for more than the last 3 years. Not just their software but also their prompt services have been quite satisfactory towards making our entire setup computerized. We have received good support from Allengers in terms of troubleshooting as well as necessary changes”.
“All customizations were met with warmth and completed in due time with necessary fine tuning. Their HMS has good features that help us in decision making like analytical reports, which let us have a better understanding of our hospital as a business unit. We would appreciate Allengers Infotech Pvt.Ltd. for its excellent and quick technical support and issue resolution. Its software helped us a lot in managing the required data during our NABH affiliation process. We wish them the best of luck for their time ahead”.
CEO
Dr.Shachi Joshi Sharma
Grecian Super Speciality Hospital
3.“Allengers Infotech, Chandigarh Hospital software is very much helpful for maintaining our hospital record and all the data related to patients. We have found best quality of Allengers Infotech, Allengers’s software team is very helpful and quick in online supporting all the time and solving entire query.The output of complete system is easy to understand and provide us report about patients, doctors and other medical records, the stock maintain of pharmacy has been very much simplified”.
We are really happy with the kind of accurate service which they have provided.
Managing Director
Dr.I J Aggarwal
4.“We are proud of having chosen Allengers HMS for our organization. This has put us as the number 1 medical organization in our country. Not only HMS software, but also the team of Allengers Infotech is one of the best we have encountered. Hats off to Allengers Infotech”.
Dr.Naresh Mittal
After hearing all these positive feedbacks, you might want to try our HMS yourself and see what difference it will make in your healthcare.