Hospital has become one crucial & mandatory part of the current digital world, and every human requires their services. In this case, the hospital must take good care of things to track the reports of their patients. Hospital Management System (HMS) is the hottest trend at present to keep track of every detail of the patients clearly and instantly.  

Hospital Management System is a software system that makes back-office activities, administrative, and clinical activities paperless. It means you can save plenty of time and money as they are capable of controlling every operation in the hospital. Healthcare IT solutions play a crucial role in enhancing the services in healthcare by managing bills, reports, and other activities of their patients.  

Technology act as a bridge between the healthcare system and people leading to excellent healthcare services. Many staff at healthcare centers is also gaining a good insight into the trending technologies to provide the best for their patients, like offering them needed comfort and time. There are so many modules that Hospital Management Systems offer namely

 

  • Administrator - the main module of HMS, which holds every permission and right to handle different hospital modules. 

  • Patient Management: The module which deals with complete management and patient care related to OPD, Reception desk, Radiology, Laboratory, IPD, and more. Apart from this, they also control visitors, appointments, and other aspects of outdoor and indoor patients. 

  • Stores and Pharmacy: The module deals with medicine stock and other relevant records. 

  • HR and Personnel Management: The module manages the hospital payroll features like leaves, bonuses, incentives, substitute management payroll modules, daily attendance, payslips, salary, and more. 

  • Finance Management: The module is needed to eliminate the paperwork as the financial department is the one crucial part when considering hospitals. 

  • Clinical Services: It includes operation theatre management, housekeeping, dietary, waste management, ambulance management, mortuary management, maintenance, laundry, and more.  


How does HMS enhance hospital productivity? 

There are many reasons to state how the Hospital Management System helps in increasing the productivity of any hospital. Here are a few of them below.


Increases Decision Making:  

Hospital Management System helps the professionals in healthcare to check out the clinical documents, diagnoses, patient records, and other relevant things in a single view and therefore results in the healthcare professionals making decisions at the right time.

 

Enables Patient Interaction:  

The HMS software helps strengthen the relationship between patients and doctors. It also helps in making it more interactive and also enhances communication for the right type of treatment.  


Appointments:  

Patients and other people who need to visit the doctor can schedule or book their appointments with their doctors online. It helps to save time and money for the people.

 

Sharing:  

The HMS helps information sharing between specialists in healthcare.

 

Decreases Human Errors:  

Hospitals need to be clear, and a small error can lead to critical issues. The Hospital Management System, as an automated process, helps in eradicating the mistakes in the medical reports.

 

Enhances Data Security:  

The Hospital Management System is more secure and, therefore, no chance for data thefts to occur as they happen in manual systems. Healthcare centers and other hospitals can keep their critical information safe from hackers or unauthorized persons. Everything in Hospital Management is accessed by a controlled method and, therefore, no chance for errors.

 

Web-based:  

Hospital Management System is web-based, and therefore, it is an affordable option.

 

Payments:  

The Hospital Management System provides access to process claims and makes online payments easily.

 

Technically Advanced:  

The HMS is advanced and, therefore, capable of handling every operation at a hospital. The healthcare system that sends electrical information about the patients is the most preferred option for many people as there are many choices like choosing their doctors and grabbing the reports of tests taken without any hurdles.  

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Hospital Management System has been used for decades. Most of the hospitals in India use HMS, but they face particular challenges in implementing it. Among them, technical and human challenges are the complicated factors while implementing HMS.

How can you face the challenges while implementing HMS?

The HMS system helps to manage every piece of information about the patients, like their personal data, comprehensive medical data, and previous medical histories, along with their diagnoses, treatments, investigations, and other medical decisions. Apart from that, HMS helps improve safety and quality and is one of the most affordable options available in the healthcare industry.

Despite their benefits, the healthcare industry faces many challenges. Implementation of HMS still fails in some hospitals due to barriers.

A few Challenging problems that you face while implementing HMS

Human Challenges

While considering human factors include

  • Awareness of HMS's advantages & importance.
  • In general, Experience and knowledge of using computer applications.
  • Impressions and Beliefs regarding HMS and making use of them efficiently.

The researchers in a study have identified three main human challenges that are a barrier to adopting the HMS in healthcare industries.

  • There is a shortage of professional healthcare faculty with in-depth knowledge of HMS and other similar technologies.
  • Poor acceptance of HMS Software.
  • Lack of health informatics professionals capable of establishing and implementing the techniques.

Another few significant problems for unsuccessful HMS implementation include.

  • Healthcare specialists nature,
  • the lack of time allowed for training and learning on making use of the HMS,
  • the lack of healthcare professional support, motivation, and more.

Many studies illustrate that HMS requires more effort, time, and work. There are high chance of HMS slowing down and causing a decrease in productivity.

Technical Challenges:

Other technical challenges that fail the implementation of HMS in the healthcare industry include:
  • Networks and computers have different maintenance problems.
  • Lack of standards for Data entry and retrieval.
  • Difficulties in training users technically to use HMS.

A few tips to overcome Human Challenges

Proceed below to check out a few things you can follow to overcome the human challenges that make HMS implementation tough.

All Medical education programs should include the significance of Hospital management system, its applications, and its advantages. One can improve the awareness of the advantages and benefits of using the HMS with a focused multi-phase approach on any topic. The system can be used from the starting level of healthcare industry schools, and colleges, then with the undergraduate degree, and through various aspects of postgraduate medical education.

Formal training while taking various levels of medical practice and education can improve the knowledge in using a Hospital management system correctly. Many types of research suggest HMS training and teaching needs to be developed and implemented as a subject or course of the postgraduate and undergraduate medical education programs.

Every health information management should include subjects of HMS short courses for medical education programs and healthcare professionals. These programs should be initiated by the health ministry and its formal channels for every healthcare specialist at any healthcare organization and hospital. Apart from that, developing and enhancing self-taught computer science courses in nursing education, medical schools, and postgraduate training is also essential.

It's a good idea to develop both postgraduate and undergraduate specialized programs in Health Information Management, Health Informatics, and Health Information Technology, which increases the number of health informatics specialists and technicians.

Overcoming the negative impressions of HMS's new and experienced staff can be neglected by developing HMS training programs and in-house hospital orientation programs.

You can make the healthcare professional participate and be involved in various stages of system implementation, development, and deployment to improve the healthcare specialists' support.

You can offer the healthcare professional overtime payment, direct and indirect incentives, rewards, bonuses, and more for the hospital departments and sections that implement HMS successfully in a healthcare organization.

Offering healthcare professionals enough time is convenient and suitable for them to learn and train on HMS.

Another good idea is to conduct different exciting training programs for healthcare professionals so that they know about HMS implementation in depth and gain a better understanding.

Here are a few tips to overcome the Technical Challenges

You need to ensure that the HMS commercial providers and vendors are offering the proper user manuals, documentation, troubleshooting, and guidelines for using HMS to the hospitals properly.

Ensuring the working conditions of computers and networks is critical for the software to work better and have fewer maintenance problems. Technical support and hardware maintenance are also significant.

You are upgrading your old communication networks and computers to new ones for enhanced performance.

Make sure you perform every analysis required in depth before the start of the design phase and the implementation phase.

Implementing newer innovations in both hardware and software is required to overcome data entry difficulties.

While considering the software innovations, the system needs to be designed to support structured data entry instead of unstructured one. In the case of hardware innovations, implementing hand-held devices, touch screens, and tablet PCs helps minimize the gap between the recording and data acquisition process and leads to easier accessibility.

Eliminating health information technology and management staff overload can be done by outsourcing a few electronic processing tasks, namely medical transcription of dictating the voice files.

Make sure about the system interface design, and check whether they are understandable and user-friendly.

Data standards usage is one of the crucial steps for source accuracy, quality, reliability, and validation of system data.

Make sure you increase the computer terminal numbers at the point of care.

The above tips will help you eliminate all challenges while implementing your Hospital information management system. Any queries or other information regarding the topics are welcome in the comments section.

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Introduction

In the city of Mumbai, Bhaktivedanta Hospital has already made an eminent growth since 1998. Now Bhaktivedanta hospital is known for its Multi Specialities in various fields such as pediatrics, orthopedics, ENT, psychiatry, and much more with a gross of more than 1500 happy patients leaving each day.

Overview:

The main reason why Bhaktivedanta approached MocDoc Healthcare Solution was to overcome the problems they faced in the appointment and scheduling of patients. MocDoc HMS provided them with the exact solutions that eventually solved all their problems. The following will list out the problems Bhaktivedanta faced and how MocDoc provided helpful solutions to overcome their problems.

Appointment Scheduling

Bhaktivedanta Hospital was using offline software to book appointments which caused them problems in appointments and scheduling, Adding to it they were still following the traditional practice of pen-paper which at times led to incorrect patient details.

MocDoc approached them with a solution by making Bhaktivedanta Hospital’s appointment scheduling effortless. We provided them with a “White labeled application” which was exclusively provided to the hospital to reduce workload and it made them produce good results in terms of managing patients and their appointments at the hospital. Our “Anytime Anywhere” accessing concept helped them to achieve excellence.

Interdepartmental Communications

Bhaktivedanta Hospital had plenty of departments operating it so the departments in the hospital were in need of proper communication between them and also the information needed to be carried out without leading to any miscommunications.

That’s where MocDoc helped Bhaktivedanta by providing a feature known as “Timeline View” which indeed helped the hospital to keep track of patient flows inside the hospital, and also helped the doctors to follow up on the patients based on their treatment. This made communication clear and patient details were tracked down easily without any misinterpretation.

Booking for VIPs & Emergency Patients

Managing VIPs around the city seemed difficult for Bhaktivedanta Hospital. This led to a situation where the hospital and the patients found a hard time Communicating. They were also facing a few difficulties in appointing and scheduling emergency patients.

That’s where MocDoc stepped in and offered a solution by providing restricted access to VIP appointments at the hospital, where the staff will be responsible for booking appointments for vips and emergency patients without any delays or difficulties. So through this we also ensure the privacy of the patients arriving at the hospital and also the waiting time of the patients was drastically reduced.

Managing the Queue

Bhaktivedanta Hospital was facing difficulties with its queue management. For instance, there was a lot of confusion in deciding if the patients having appointments or if patients holding tokens should be given preference since the hospital was following the call and token system. So the hospital faced some issues in managing Queues.

After implementing MocDoc HMS software each and every appointment was perfectly scheduled in order. These appointments are viewed by the staff who is in charge of the appointment section. Also, we provided additional features which made them classify patients based on their needs, this reduced the workload drastically.

Payment Processing System

Since Bhaktivedanta had offline software for appointment scheduling, processing payments online was not possible also Bhaktivedanta followed Manual procedures for appointment scheduling and payment processing. This was difficult for Bhaktivedanta to keep track of information about patients and payment details.

MocDoc helped Bhaktivedanta by providing a payment gateway for the patients through which they were able to make payments and Bhaktivedanta found it easy to manage patients' transaction details. Even MocDoc allowed the patients to make multiple appointments and at the same time maintain privacy in the transaction.

Benefits :

  • Appointments are made easier by patients from anywhere

  • Human-Error is completely removed

  • Payments were made much easier and more secure by patients

  • Problems with the administration were completely restored by MocDoc

  • MIS Reports for OP Management and hospital Management were implemented to track doctors and patients.

  • Both patients and the Hospital gained satisfaction in using MocDoc HMS

Result:

By using MocDoc HMS Bhaktivedanta Hospital has improved its appointment and scheduling operations. We also helped them resolve their minor and major problems among patients with the help of our trained team. Thus in a world full of competition, MocDoc always pursues to attain Customer satisfaction.

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The famous Kaiser Permanente installed the nation's significant and all-inclusive EHR (Electronic Health Record) before a decade. The decision was taken together by the medical groups and the health plans, implementing it was extortionate as well as arduous because of the larger size of the Organization.


Motivating and training staffs and physicians, many lives are saved with the combination of an integrated medical care delivery system and data analytics.


Few clinicians have the right to access the All-inclusive Electronic Health Record which indulges every medical information of the patient and also lets you know about the potential medical errors and care gaps before it go viral across the globe.


Integrating them was tedious as well as expensive, but this is the right way to maximize the care provided to the patients around. Here are a few lessons popped out below regarding the experience in the EHR for the investments as well as for other health systems.


Make the EHR All-Inclusive:


The next step in EHR is to hire individual preferences for separate specialties to get benefits with the physician acceptance. For example, every clinician made use of the document to identify the patient's problem apart from analyzing a single body diagram. Each specialty has its description; as a result, the primary care clinicians reviewed and submitted two separate set of their analysis.


When considering the EHR, they derive the entire information provided, and all patients get benefited through the information sharing across different specialties rather than going through the complete documentation. The complete EHR incorporates with the patient's totality and then communicates their entire information to all clinicians who take care of them, unlike the other office-based stand-alone systems.


If all clinicians receive the same data, they can easily find out the problems and rectify them regardless of if they work in any specialty departments.


Acquire Clinicians Onboard:


Most of the large multispecialty hospital medical groups are paid only on an annual basis, and this is one of the biggest challenges every clinician face with the EHR adoption. At present, most EHRs designed to code and bill instead of the clinical practices, this makes the clinicians slow down and also results in fewer patients care.


The experience was completely different, and the clinicians received data from the EHR cumbersome, which helped the physicians to identify the advantages and disadvantages of the patients. They can easily have access to studies apart from searching for the best radiologic studies.


The clinicians found difficulties regarding the added time that requires to study the new system, so the plan got changed and focussed on reducing the schedule by half during the phase of implementation. By doing so, many of the physicians found many advantages which lead to exposure.


Build Trust:


Physicians need to trust their leaders for the successful operation change, and this leads the process to gain the physician trust.


Keep in mind the other Employees who use EHR system.


Medical assistants use EHR more on their work, they do not need more documentation, and they can make use of the system to check out the clinical benefits.


When a patient visits the hospital, they make use of the EHR system to look for the preventive care gaps and address them correctly. For example, if a lady was overdue for a blood cancer screening, they call the GYN/OB for scheduling an appointment, this makes them recognize the medical assistant and the contribution they made.


Offering Ongoing Technical Support 24./7


If people use new technology, they need instant help if they got any queries on using them. To perform the instant support, there is on-site and immediate technical assistance to the users, and this is the right thing to make use of the EHR system while preparing for any training classes or other live settings.


In the starting weeks of performing live in any medical center or other specific departments, clinicians who already implemented the system application successfully in any different location can act as a consulting expert and make them available to the clinician's colleagues. It also incorporated additional IT staffs so that providing consultative support for the users are done efficiently and immediately following the implementations.  


EHR implementation should be a capital program, and you invest more and also achieve the ROI (Return on Investment) at the right time. Once after the execution, the EHR system allows clinicians to treat their patients in hospitals, offices, emergency departments, and other areas faster than the past.


The comprehensiveness of the EHR data helps in facilitating the total work of data analytics, best practice evolutions and the effort put for implementing the EHR system allows patients to avoid many complications from various deadly chronic diseases.


Make sure you follow the above things if you are ready to implement Electronic Health records in your hospital.


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HMS covers three aspects of managing the hospital; they are Operational, Financial, and Clinical Aspects. If you look at the Doctor Management System, most of the software covers only operational and financial aspects like billing, inventory management, patient registration, scheduling, and workflow management. When evaluating HMS software, hospitals give much importance to operational and financial aspects and less importance to clinical records.



This blog discusses the importance of focusing on clinical records, otherwise known as Electronic Medical Records (EMR) in HMS.


What is EMR?


EMR is called Electronic Medical Records (EMR), which include information regarding the patient's medical history and treatment as discrete medical practices possess them.


When considering individual patients, the EMR will include information like patient contact information (emergency contact), physician orders, allergies, insurance, and other billing information, surgical notes on various medical progress, prescriptions, vitals like weight, height, body temperature, BMI (Body Mass Index), etc., release information forms, medical facility appointments on past and future, treatment plans and Discharge summaries, etc. 


EMR constitutes different characteristics considering the medical practices, which include their functioning system to all other medical care procedures.


Apart from the benefits of the software platform, the Electronic Medical Record Systems also provides much other prominent information for care.


Coordination procedures connecting reception information and transfer departments, the software, personal use rules of the organizations, training, and education established plans are some of the well-established components of the Electronic Medical Record System.  


Benefits of EMR for the Medical Practice


Below are some of the advantages of Electronic Medical Records to Medical Practices.


  • Capable of quickly transferring patient information from one department to the other.
  • The digital record environment helps to save much space.
  • Through EMR, you can quickly enhance the number of patients for improved productivity and workflow of the patients daily.
  • Medical practice with reduced errors leads to a vast improvement in patient care and result management.
  • The operational cost is much reduced with EMR, especially for expenses made for overtime labor and transcription services.
  • With EMR, electronic medical records can be customized and are scalable.
  • The capability of providing advanced clinical documentation and e-prescribing. 
  • The efficient and accurate process of billing with their advanced healthcare practices.


What Benefits does EMR provide for the Patients?


  • Improvement in Patient Treatment and other Diagnoses of diseases.

  • Rapid decision-making responses and patient care from different medical professionals assigned to individual patients. No chances for significant errors in a patient health record.


What are the Essential Core Capabilities of the EHR?


The Electronic Medical System indulges seven different core capabilities, namely.

Health Information and Data:

With EHR, you can quickly access essential information about the patients, their allergies, diagnosis of their diseases, medications, lab test results, etc., which provides a clear idea for the custodian or minder to decide on the treatments promptly.


Result Management:

People who take care of the patients are provided with multiple settings regarding patient care. This will undoubtedly improve the effectiveness of the care and safety of the patients reliably through quick access to past and new test results.


Decision Support:

The computerized EMR system makes use of Prompts, reminders, and alerts for various benefits like providing complementary clinical practices with improved compliances, possibilities of regular screenings, and capability of taking other vital methods, natural treatment, and diagnosis and also helps to identify the possible interaction of the drugs, etc. precisely.


Electronic Connectivity and Communication:

Improved care continuity, enhanced timeliness of the treatment and diagnosis of diseases, reduced events frequency, etc., are some of the critical benefits of the Electronic Medical System for secure, efficient, and accessible communication between patients and providers.


Patient Support:

The various tools provided for the patients, like easy access to their health records anytime, interactive health table and patient education, self-testing and home monitor methods, etc., help to keep their diabetes and other chronic diseases under control.


Reporting:

Electronic Medical System has plenty of advantages indulged in the HMS. One of the critical reasons 90% of clinicians choose EHR is their reduced human errors.


As a whole, EHR security needs a fine tune in case of the substance abuse records and terms of the behavioral actions. By doing so, they can calculate the patient's body conditions efficiently. E.g., if nurses and physicians have every minute detail regarding their patient's history at their fingertips, there might be no massive chances for critical care and emergency treatment.


The detailed history of the patients will help in finding a new healthcare provider through the patient's current health state and the medical record. They also support exchanging patient information with healthcare facilities if the patients have not requested them.


Integration

Electronic medical record (EMR) is not a standalone system. Instead, it is a complete ecosystem with several integrations, making it a holistic solution for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, care, and management of medical conditions.


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