KAU BUSE 604: Hospital Information System Group Project Report

This report provides an in-depth analysis of a Hospital Information System (HIS), examining its technology, organizational impact, and management strategies. The report details the benefits of HIS, such as improved patient care through accessible medical histories and efficient administrative processes. It also addresses the risks, including potential data breaches and reliance on IT infrastructure. The analysis covers the HIS's role in supporting healthcare professionals, its influence on business and IT strategies, and its importance in modern healthcare settings. The report also references relevant academic sources and concludes with a summary of the system's overall impact and importance within the healthcare sector. The report addresses the business processes, technology, organization, and management aspects of HIS.

Hospital Information
System

Introduction
Hospital information system defined as
a technology which focus over the
exchange of information related to all
departments of hospital including the
detail information of patients.

Benefits of Hospital
Information System
 Easy and timely access of the
medical history of the patients,
which helps the doctors in providing
best treatment to the patients.

Benefits of HIS
 Integration of workflow can be
possible by using HIS within the
organisation so that the
administrative department of
hospital ensures about the effective
services of health care professionals.

Benefits of HIS
 HIS helps in decision support system
of the hospital by providing crucial
information in a very short time.
Sometimes medical decisions are
very important in terms of well-being
of the patients.

Benefits of HIS
 Patients and doctors both are
receiving benefits because of the
special features of HIS. The medical
history of the patient can be
retrieved any time and an effective
patient care services may be
provided by the health care
professionals to patients.

Benefits of HIS
 Monitoring of the conditions of
health of the patients is become
possible only with the help of HIS.

Importance of HIS
 Hospital information system is very
important in terms of providing
effective and timely medical services
to the patients.
 It helps by saving the time of both
patient and health care experts.

Risk associated with HIS
 Threat of loosing confidential data
related to the personal medical
history of the patients.
 Complexities in the IT infrastructure
of HIS.
 Excessive dependency over IT
expert.

Conclusion
Hospital information system is highly
useful for providing timely and
effective medical services to the
patients. It is also useful for the
administrative department of the
hospital by managing and storing the
important data.

References
 A Fong, A. H. K. M. R. R., 2020. Human factor
approaches to understand health information
technology impacts on patient safety. Clinical
Engineering Handbook, pp. 876-880.
 A Horvat, J. F., 2020. Healthcare system quality
indicators: the complexity perspective. Total
Quality Management & Business Excellence,
31(2), pp. 161-177.
 D Beßler, A. B. M. B., 2020. Information System
for Storage, Management, and Usage for
Embodied Intelligent Systems. Information
Storage , pp. 135-159.

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