Hospital Management Information Management System
Objective
At present the health care system of Bangladesh faces major challenges. We are unable to provide even primary medical care to our people let alone secondary and tertiary medical care. The current scenario of information flow in most of the hospital in Bangladesh presents a paper based, time consuming, inefficient system leading to problems of inefficient utilization of resources and problems to patients. All these problems and poor coordination – are closely connected to our failure to use health information technology as an integral part of medical care.
Not only that we face difficulties in retaining specialists in non-urban areas. The distribution of specialists in Bangladesh is indeed lopsided.
With these problems in mind, our objective is to design a Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) which will make the best use of the increasing availability of Information technology and better telecommunications infrastructure to help a hospital manage its matters in an efficient, effective manner and provide better and faster medical treatment and care to its patients. Our objective is also to introduce the idea of ‘Telemedicine’ for rural and distant patient management.
2. Introduction
We live in a world of inequality and diversity. This world is divided roughly into three kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down; those whose people eat to live; and those that do not know where the next meal is coming from. At the beginning of the new millennium this is the reality where we live, but there are new technologies, which can improve our lives. In the twenty-first century there exists a predominately information and knowledge-based society, where every country hopes to achieve its goal of social and economic development, including full education, proper food, security, decent health, genuine gender equity and respect for cultural pluralism. Today, the most important problem is to attain and sustain these goals,
At present the health care system of Bangladesh faces major challenges. We are unable to provide even primary medical care to our people let alone secondary and tertiary medical care. The current scenario of information flow in most of the hospital in Bangladesh presents a paper based, time consuming, inefficient system leading to problems of inefficient utilization of resources and problems to patients. All these problems and poor coordination – are closely connected to our failure to use health information technology as an integral part of medical care.
Not only that we face difficulties in retaining specialists in non-urban areas. The distribution of specialists in Bangladesh is indeed lopsided.
With these problems in mind, our objective is to design a Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) which will make the best use of the increasing availability of Information technology and better telecommunications infrastructure to help a hospital manage its matters in an efficient, effective manner and provide better and faster medical treatment and care to its patients. Our objective is also to introduce the idea of ‘Telemedicine’ for rural and distant patient management.
2. Introduction
We live in a world of inequality and diversity. This world is divided roughly into three kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down; those whose people eat to live; and those that do not know where the next meal is coming from. At the beginning of the new millennium this is the reality where we live, but there are new technologies, which can improve our lives. In the twenty-first century there exists a predominately information and knowledge-based society, where every country hopes to achieve its goal of social and economic development, including full education, proper food, security, decent health, genuine gender equity and respect for cultural pluralism. Today, the most important problem is to attain and sustain these goals,