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With the rapid development of the information society, computer technology has been widely used in all walks of life. Computer applications are more and more popular in the health-care field, such as medical education, hospital, medical research and so on.

Hospital information system (HIS) is an information system that uses computers and communications equipment to satisfy the functional requirements of the authorized users by the storage, collection, processing, communicate and extraction of the management information and patient data. Hospital information system (HIS) is an electronic system that aims to provide comprehensive hospital-and patient-related information to authorized people, on one click. HIS can provide data for directors, lightening the workload for the medical workers, and improving the workers efficiency.

Information saves lives. This is especially true in the medical field. Hospital administrators, doctors, and nurses who access patient and population health data can make crucial decisions about care that could make all the difference in the world to their patients.

Placing hospital data into the right hands quickly depends on hospital information systems, which seamlessly and intelligently integrate health care with information technology. A hospital information system enables health care organizations to collect, store, manage, analyze, and optimize patient treatment histories and other key data.

These systems also enable health care providers to easily get information about macro environments such as community health trends. Further, hospital information systems give insight into specific providers or health care organizations - for example, commonly used treatments or interventions that are linked with best outcomes.

Doctors and nurses use hospital information systems to make data-driven decisions regarding various facets of patient care.For example, quickaccess to patientmedical histories can bring previous treatments to light.

Hospital information systems are also invaluable to administrators, who can analyze statistics about different departments or procedures to better allocate the organization's resources.

The introduction of Information Systems (IS) in large hospitals drastically changed the management of patient care. Increased computer speed and processing power, local area networks and use of standardshave led to many possibilities in terms of access and availability of information for health professionals.

However, although integration of hospital information systems leads towards a more efficient use of resources, therefore increasing the effectiveness of the provided services, the improvement of quality of care and the rise in productivity has not been drastically increased in many countries.

1. Lack of a strategic plan, organizational issues, incompetent IT departments and bureaucracy appear to be bottlenecks towards the successful introduction of IT systems far more than any, technical and financial barriers

2. The workflow process within the hospital should be thoroughly examined, to identify factors related with the impending the successful introduction of IS.

The use of integrated Hospital Information Systems is related with many benefits for the healthcare system, increasing the effectiveness of the providedservices and assuringquality of care. It is expected to contribute to the understanding of the organizational, human resource and technical factors related with the successful implementation of a hospital IS. The implementation problemsare mainly relatedwith the underfunding, inadequate use of standards, lack of skilled IT experts, insufficiently trained personnel and users' reserve. The problems may be tackled with a supportive hospital administration committedto the successful implementation. The external contracting company working on its own, without any participation of the hospital IT department seems to be a failure recipe. It is evident that an active management support and skillfulhospital IT employees, are expected to result to success stories during the implementation of integrated hospital information systems.

Questions:

1. Why do you need a HospitalInformation System?

2. Explain the information benefits of a Hospital Information System to hospitals and patients, society with suitable instances.

3. Based on your understanding of the case, what are the features that should be available in a Hospital Information System?
As an IS consultant, provide your recommendations to a hospitalas to the long- term business advantages of implementing a Hospital Information System.