Automated HIS Technologies

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       HIS Technologies Limited is a research-based technology company specialized in networking technologies and infotainment technologies. An HIS provides support for a wide variety of clinical and non clinical functions.

1. The Electronic Chart System

• Is a computer system in various formats used by the physicians, nurses, ward clerks and other healthcare provider to record and retrieve and view patients data, to make orders and to communicate with other departments or sections in the hospital. Examples of portable systems are the following: Tablet, Desktop, Computes on Wheels and Wall-Mounted Computer system. 

2. Electronic Monitoring System

• They are LCD-based systems that monitor and display vital signs, cardiac, respiratory and other physiologic activity processed from data coming from input sensor devices hooked to the patient's body.

3. Automated Medication Administration System

• A nurse uses a personal digital assistant or PDA to identify the patient at point of care.

4. Automated Medication Dispensing System

• When the PDA is used in medication administration, the nurse first confirms for the 5R on the patient identified.

5. Automatic Labeling Machine

• The barcode-enabled  PDA can communicate via Bluetooth to a portable to a portable labeling machine to quickly produce labels for specimens or sample bottles and other items related to the patient.

6. Automated Billing Machine

• It looks and works like an Automated Teller Machine (ATM).

7. Home Health Care System

• Looks like a desktop or laptop PC connected to a set of monitoring devices that the patient hooka to his body so he could be monitored by a healthcare provider at a distance .

8. Healthcare Information System (HIS) Program

• Is the integration of all information systems of the various clinical and non-clinical departments of a healthcare institution.

As an area of medical informatics the aim of an HIS is to achieve the best possible support of patient care and outcome and administration by presenting data where needed and acquiring data when generated with networked electronic data processing.

Benefits of HIS

• Easy Access to Patient Data to generate varied records, including classification based on demographic, gender, age, and so on. It is especially beneficial at ambulatory (out-patient) point, hence enhancing continuity of care. As well as, Internet-based access improves the ability to remotely access such data. 
• It helps as a decision support system for the hospital authorities for developing comprehensive health care policies^. 
• Efficient and accurate administration of finance, diet of patient, engineering, and distribution of medical aid. It helps to view a broad picture of hospital growth
• Improved monitoring of drug usage, and study of effectiveness. This leads to the reduction of adverse drug interactions while promoting more appropriate pharmaceutical utilization.
• Enhances information integrity, reduces transcription errors, and reduces duplication of information entries.

 

Telenursing

What does this for us? Can this help us in our health? Lets find out.

       Telenursing is the use of “technology to deliver nursing care and conduct nursing practice”. Although the use of technology changes the delivery medium of nursing care and may necessitate competencies related to its use to deliver nursing care, the nursing process and scope of practice does not differ with telenursing. Nurses engaged in telenursing practice continue to assess, plan, intervene, and evaluate the outcomes of nursing care, but they do so using technologies such as the Internet, computers, telephones, digital assessment tools, and telemonitoring equipment.

      One of the most distinctive telenursing applications is home care. For example, patients who are immobilized, or live in remote or difficult to reach places, citizens who have chronic ailments, or disabilitating diseases, etc., may stay at home and be "visited" and assisted regularly by a nurse via videoconferencing, internet, videophone, etc. Still other applications of home care are the care of patients in immediate post-surgical situations, the care of wounds, ostomies, handicapped individuals, etc. In normal home health care, one nurse is able to visit up to 5-7 patients per day. Using telenursing, one nurse can “visit” 12-16 patients in the same amount of time.

        A common application of telenursing is also used by call centers operated by managed care organizations, which are staffed by registered nurses who act as case managers or perform patient triage, information and counseling as a means of regulating patient access and flow and decrease the use of emergency rooms.

    Telenursing can also involve other activities such as patient education, nursing teleconsultations, examination of results of medical tests and exams, and assistance to physicians in the implementation of medical treatment protocols.

          Although they are not the focus of this review, these disciplines are selectively included here for two reasons: (1) the safety issues associated with care delivered using electronic and telecommunications technologies are more similar than they are different among the various health disciplines, and (2) the dearth of research on safety and quality in the telenursing literature led the authors to include important research in other health disciplines. By including the research findings on safety and quality from varied health disciplines, the body of telenursing knowledge is expected to expand.