WHAT IS HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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Modern hospital management system is an enterprise level software application that connects each and every department. With the software functionalities, every person in the hospital are able to electronically communicate patient clinical and administrative information with one another. It also helps managing the cost of operations by reducing the inventory wastage, managing the resources optimally, billing the patient accurately and delivering the quality of care with right information at right time.

Application will have to be robust and can not afford to have down time as every one will be relying on the data availability 24/7. This requires necessary security and redundancy measures in place. Information unavailability is not an option and will risk patients lives.

A large hospital is equal to a small city with huge demand on type of systems that would be needed to manage their operations. One vendor can not do all, hence the system should be capable of communicating with external third party softwares through standard protocols in order to deliver the functionality required for the department users without the need to duplicate the patient data. Interoperability is not a choice, it’s a mandatory requirement in any HIS. Standards like HL7, FHIR, IHE, DICOM etc help to achieve that.

Hospital Management System is not an off the shelf software which has a set of standard functionality that can be used for a specific purpose for many years. It is more of lifeline for the hospital and it has to meet the objectives of the hospital from the first year of operation. The need and necessity keep changing and growing as they are faced with the challenges from market competition, Social economic changes, regulatory changes. One has to adopt to the patient demand and meet or exceed the expectations.


Not all HIS are same:

Hospital management system price starts from $60 which you can download from the community market place to a $1M or more depending on the type of product, functionality, modules, automation that it can bring, intelligence that it has and the level of support from the vendor.

One has to evaluate their needs and choose the right kind of product. Price is not the only criteria. The less they spend more the human resource needed to manage the facility. If your objective is to provide a

1) Exceptional patient experience,

2) lower turnaround time for your reports

3) lower the cost of operation using intelligent resource management

4) Shorten your revenue cycle time

5) Control leakage

6) Software managed quality measures

7) Software managed regulatory protocols

9) Good clinical standards

10) Easy to use

11) Cloud enabled

12) Multi tenancy

13) Always updated

14) Exceptional vendor support

15) Latest technology

16) Machine interfaces

17) Interoperability with standards

18) Patient management, EMR, DMS, LIS, RIS, PACS, RCM all in one as a single system

19) Dynamic workflow

20) Business Intelligence

Then we have the right solution. Look no further, we are there to serve you with Simplex HIMES.

Call one of our experts or mail us for further details. We will work very closely with you to meet your clinical and financial objectives.