Management Information System for Hospitals :: HospiAd

IT is the system in which the various information is used for management of Hospital functions as under:-

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  Collection, compilation, analysis and interpretation of data for effective use as information.
• Helps in better planning, monitoring and control of medical and health services.
• Monitoring of identified indicators helps in improving of the efficiency and
• Performance of health delivery system.
• - Hospital safety
• - Analysis of information helps in better decision making.

The various information collected for information management of hospital are:-

• Morbidity Rates
• Mortality Rates
• Level of staff training and efficiency
• Level of functioning of various areas of hospital like Labs, Xray, Blood Bank, CSSD, Sanitation etc.
• Admission, Discharge and Death.
• ALS, Bed occupancy, Bed turn over rates

With the modern technological development the whole system is being computerised with LAN (In-House Networking). Designing of the MIS should be relevant to the objective function of the hospital. 


The present presentation discusses about all these.

How Hospitals came into Existence? :: Hospiad

History of Hospital Development

Literature suggest that the church at Les Invalides in France showing the often close connection between historical hospitals and churches. Ancient cultures, religion and medicine were linked. The various methods of cure starts from faith in Gods and begins from churches, temples and idghas. 

Institutions created specifically to care for the ill also appeared early in India. The earliest surviving encyclopedia of medicine in Sanskrit is the Charakasamhita (Compendium of Charaka). 

There are also evidence of Hospital care at the time of King Ashok. Early hospitals in India were built by Ashok (273-232B.C) During that time even, the importance of nutritive value of fresh fruit & vegetables were known. Gentle care, personal hygiene and herbal medicines were given to the sick.The Allopathic system of medicine   was introduced in India in 16th century. 

A modern hospital has become highly scientific and complex institution over the years particularly in last three decades. This is due to introduction of diagnostic and therapeutic technologies.

The history of development of hospitals is quite vast and described by many. If you interested to know more then follow this link to  Wikipedia