Hospital Information System: Systems Development and Requirements

COIT 20248: Information Systems Analysis and Design
Term 1, 2019
Assessment 1 - Systems Development
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction.......................................................................................................................................1
2. Approach to Systems Development..................................................................................................2
3. Systems Requirements......................................................................................................................3
4. Project Cost Benefit Analysis.............................................................................................................4
5. Project Schedule................................................................................................................................6
6. System Information Requirement Investigation Techniques.............................................................8
7. Reflections and Conclusions..............................................................................................................9
References...........................................................................................................................................10

1. Introduction
The Hospital Information System (HIS) can be considered as an important factor that could
be implemented within the healthcare sector for the purpose of management of financial,
administrative and various clinical aspects in relation to a hospital. These hospitals are
mainly dealing with a lot of data that is collected from patients who come from all over to
cure themselves from ailments. The doctors, nurses and various other people within the
administrative department are working all round the clock to satisfy the patients and thus
treat them with proper care.
With the high use and storage of data, there is a vast need for the creation of a new form of
Information System that would be able to suit according to the needs of the hospital
administrative department (Nguyen, Bellucci and Nguyen 2014). The primary aim in this
report is to discuss about the present need of the hospital to implement an HIS based on
their high needs of maintaining and storing a huge amount of data. This report discusses
about various important aspects of HIS within a hospital. A proper approach for the
development of the systems should be sought in order to help in proper execution of the
service.
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2. Approach to Systems Development
A Hospital Information System can be defined as a form of Information System or a technical
system that would be able to support the current administrative processes within hospitals.
These hospitals generate a huge amount of data that is collected from patients who come
for various reasons. The trend for the introduction of HIS within the core functionalities of a
hospital would help in the increase of efficiency and clinical management systems (Nilashi
et
al. 2016). Based on the understanding over the core functionalities of the system, it could be
further discussed that the hospital systems could make use of the Agile based framework to
design the interactive HIS system.
The Agile framework could be extremely helpful for supporting the operational processes
within a clinic and thus refining the several processes. The use of an Agile based approach
could lead to a potential increase in maximizing the benefits based on new processes and
high return on investment (Carroll and Richardson 2016). This framework has been proving
success in various industries in the cases of development of software. The use of Agile based
framework could be included within the designing of HIS due to several reasons. With this
framework, the solution could thus be discovered and defined in details. This could be made
by performing several iterations through which the system would be able to deliver better
kind of functionalities. Hence, the agile mode of project management could be defined as an
approach that would leverage the iterative model for defining and controlling over the work
of the project.
Some of the primary strengths of the Agile framework are:
1. The functions of processes, steps and roles would be validated in various sessions of
review.
2. Issues within the management could be avoidable with the help of formal requests of
changes in scope.
3. The Agile framework has a major kind of potential for delivering value in several
conditions of uncertainty in solutions (Darwish
et al. 2017). This would be processed much
faster than with the traditional project management approaches.
The weaknesses of Agile framework are:
1. This framework can be mainly be performed with the help of meaningful participation
from stakeholders.
2. This framework would not be able to define the exact delivery of the end product.
3. By using the Agile framework, it would be required that the team comprises of
experienced team members.
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