2009 Implementers Group Meeting Program Supporting Hospital Information Systems

• Saptarshi described the workflow in the hospital in India (see Hospital Information Systems in India) and the lab

  • Wants a graph to show how many patients registered on a particular date at a particular clinic

• Registration Module

  • Talked about existing examples: registration module, amrsregistsration module, pihprimarycare module, Baobob's work

  • Discussed handling Universal ID cards

  • Biometric identification

    • Carl pointed out that they use biometrics as authorization rather than authentication – i.e., find the patient through ID card and/or demographics and then confirm with biometrics

    • Would everyone use biometrics or should that feature be toggle-able? Not everyone would use biometrics

• Inpatient module

• Pharmacy/Drug Management

• Lab Module

• Billing Module

  • Have associated price with orderables

  • Might help to add "account" attribute to new visit object

  • Recommended getting additional experts involved to realize a full system

  • Consider looking at Bamboo Invoice

  • Integration with insurance schemes

• Advanced Reporting

• Talked about considering OpenVista

  • OpenVista Community

  • OpenVista Development Projects

  • OpenVista Downloads

• Discussion about considering workflow

"Crawl before you walk". Start with some simple functionality within modules and evolve into integration with other systems.