The Hospital Information & Management System (HIMS) is a fully-integrated, information system created and implemented by Comlogik Business Systems, Inc. HIMS is built exclusively for healthcare and based on a client-server network design concept. HIMS allows for scalability, the central management of business rules and reduced maintenance and overheads.

All HIMS data is stored in a single database providing real time data across applications throughout the hospital. Because all data is stored centrally, it can be viewed simultaneously from multiple terminals giving departments access to timely, up-to-date patient information. The use of PC based servers and workstations in combination with advanced hard disks provides mainframe class reliability at a cost that allows most hospitals to replicate their data center, thereby ensuring foolproof data security without user intervention to archive data or perform time consuming backups archiving or time consuming data back-ups.

   FUNCTIONALITY

At the core of HIMS is the Electronic Medical Record (EMR), made possible by the single integrated database design. The EMR integrates all records of the patient, allowing the instantaneous retrieval of electronically generated material from any terminal in the HIMS system. HIMS front office strengths include its Radiology, Laboratory, and Pharmacy, RADT (Registration Admission, Discharge and Transfer).

The HIMS back office is a comprehensive product suite comprised of all the applications necessary to administer a hospital. From a full-featured accounting system including General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Fixed Asset Maintenance modules, to Purchasing and Inventory modules that handle all materials management. the HIMS system provides fully integrated back office functionality in addition to a full Human Resources Management and Payroll system.

   
    OPTIMISED WORKFLOW

In addition to streamlined computer architecture, innovative designs are built into HIMS software to optimise hospital workflows. Using Windows© 2000’s advanced peripheral support features, the HIMS software suite takes advantage of the most current technologies. These simplify the use of the system by minimising the amount of user effort required to complete frequently performed operations like the entry of patient identification numbers, specimen accession numbers and general patient information. Device support for security technologies like the i-button, smart cards or fingerscanning devices securely identifies users, while support for web cams to acquire patient photos ensures positive patient identification and virtually eliminates insurance fraud.

  
   USABILITY & TRAINING

Another advantage of HIMS is that it is extremely user friendly. Developed on Microsoft’s© Windows Platform, HIMS capitalizes on the familiarity of the mouse-driven point and click Windows graphical user interface (GUI). The HIMS GUI is designed specifically to lower the employee learning curve and minimise user-training costs. By implementing strict design rules through all application interfaces and creating a set of controls and functions that are common to the entire system, users familiar in the use of one set of HIMS applications can be easily reassigned to other departments with minimal retraining.

   DESIGNED TO GROW AS YOU GROW

The functions available throughout the HIMS are created to address the organisational demands of large or growing hospitals. The fully integrated HIMS modules provide configurable solutions that cover the full healthcare and financial services spectrum. System parameters are defined in consultation with the client hospital to determine optimal business workflows. Multiple business scenarios in all modules allow users to create flows that suit current and future business needs.

Overall, HIMS is a powerful yet flexible system that can streamline both medical and business processes. Designed using cutting-edge technologies and implementing the most up-to-date hardware available, HIMS can meet all of your hospital's current and future needs.



    

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