A
Fully Integrated System
Horizon Intelligent Integrated
Hospital Medical System (e-Hospital) is a
"state-of-the-art" system, for use
by doctors, nurses, health care managers,
administrators and workers. It is developed
to assist the running of all aspects of a
busy hospital; the building block approach
lets your system grow as your hospital does.
All medical data regarding consultation. Diagnoses,
prescriptions, investigations, treatments,
social and family elements are fully integrated.
e-Hospital can be used for a variety of purposes,
e.g. decision support functions, research
activities, preventive care, epidemiology,
statistics, accounting, stock control, human
resources, customer relation management, support
services, scheduling and assets management.
What Does
e-Hospital do?
e-Hospital caters for all aspects of running
a busy hospital and is Intelligently designed
for achieving a paperless hospital. It deals
with hospital structures, user-definable hierarchy
levels, multi-speciality bed assignment, cost
centre assignments, nursing-station assignments.
It deals with all hospital inventories and
keeps the records of all the purchases and
purchase prices and associated data, along
with asset management and equipment maintenance.
For patient care e-Hospital provides the clinician
with an expert overseer advice, acting as
a helping hand in decision making. e-Hospital
can analyse all the relevant data, such as
previous consultations, diagnoses, treatments
and general family history. It uses this data
and inter-relates these factors to act as
a decision support function. Full control
is always maintained over prescribing, with
automatic warnings of significant adverse
reactions, allergies, drug interactions, contra
indications, controlled drugs and suitability
of the treatment for patient age, pregnancy
and lactation.
e-Hospital helps to achieve economies, it
eliminates paperwork, encourages preventative
care, encourages patients preventative-education
care, provides accuracy in health information,
provides better understanding and statistical
analysis of drugs usage and also helps to
reduce the excessive cost of litigations.
Through its CRM interface, it deals with business
partners, including employers, insurance providers,
external physicians and other groups. It is
totally integrated with Human Resources, Sales,
Income, General Ledger and Scheduling. e-Hospital
will make your hospital instantly productive.
Operational
Simplicity
The system's simplicity is its unique feature.
It has been designed to be the most efficient
tool for busy clinicians. e-Hospital is always
ahead in its field. Even if you do not know
the first thing about computers, e-Hospital
will make you instantly productive. Irrespective
of the complexity of the processing required,
the operator's task is always minimal. e-Hospital
is self checking, with constant "on-line"
help and positive guidance being built-in
features of the system.
Hospitals, Buildings, Nursing Stations, Specialties,
Bed & Clinics, Labs, Radiology, Pharmacies,
Stores, Consultants, Transport, Kitchens,
receptions and External Professional.
System
Overview
This Intelligent Integrated Hospital Management
System (e-Hospital) is for use in Hospitals
and other ancillary health care-providing
institutions like general medical practices,
dental practices, opticians, nursing homes
and other health care clinics which could
have linkage with the hospitals.
e-Hospital is intended for:
To achieve the effective management of hospitals
and other Health Care (HC) services through
better communications and avoidance
of duplication , thus improving economies.
To improve the quality of HC, while achieving
economies by providing the means of efficient
sharing of medical records and knowledge.
To optimise patient safety giving automatic
warnings, through expert system interfaces
and to develop standards for better decisions.
To achieve statistics for future healthcare
planning.
Data collection for Insurance companies for
the purpose of future decision making, forecasting
and fraud protection.
Patient referrals statistics and treatment
comparison for quality control.
Enhancement of patient care and effective
hospital management.
A system providing comprehensive information
facilities for planning and monitoring preventive
patient care.
Information entered once only with the system
automatically updating relevant patient data
files.
A system providing up to date information
for management decision making.
A helping hand for doctors in their day to
day work and for their research facilities.
Text to Speech features for important episodes.
Statistical Analysis for drugs and diseases.
Anti-fraud indicators for drug misuse.
Anti-fraud tool for business management.
Anti-fraud tool for insurance companies.
Future projections for drug usage.
Future planning for clinical care.
Positive guidance for achieving economies
and clinical excellence.
An easy to use system not requiring specialist
computer staff.
Inpatients, Outpatients, Waiting Lists, Admissions,
Medical Histories, Diagnoses, Treatments,
Nursing Data, Referrals, Patients Notes, Labs
& Radiology Data, Allergies, High Risk,
Immunisations, Patient Education, Therapies,
Entertainments, Newborn, Billing, Insurance
& Discharge Reports.
The system is design to maintain a central
clinical database for patients. Once the patient
is registered with the system, their clinical
data will be available to the other authorised
healthcare providing institutions. The system
will act as a central hub for clinical information
for all related healthcare bodies and professionals.
Apart from Healthcare providers, Insurance
companies and government institutions will
be the main beneficiaries of this system.
The system can also create medical smart-cards
for patients, which will hold the patients’
identification and significant current medical
history. Patients can visit any medical institution
who is equipped to read such smart-cards.
The smart-cards will provide tremendous benefits
to patients and medical institutions. For
example, if a road traffic victim is brought
in unconscious, the hospital physician will
very quickly have all his medical history
available no matter whether the patient is
registered or not registered with the hospital.
Thus the system will inform the physician
of all the drugs the patient takes, from what
diseases they are suffering and what allergies
they have. This will prevent the physician
from prescribing contra-indicated drugs or
giving a treatment dangerous to the unconscious
patient in his care.
Once the patient is registered they will have
automatic quality improvements from all the
ancillary healthcare providing institutions.
To illustrate this inter-relationship within
the healthcare providing institutions, here
are a few conceptual examples, without
placing any restrictions upon the functional
adequacy of the system.
The General Practitioner will be able to record
all medical data regarding consultation, diagnosis,
prescriptions, examination findings, investigation
results, treatments and social & family
elements. This data can be used for decision
support functions, research activities, preventative
care, statistics and epidemiology.
The system will be invaluable in a hospital
environment; a general practitioner is virtually
never able to give the full medical history
of a referred patient but the system will
keep the hospital consultant fully informed,
giving essential details so that the correct
diagnosis is more quickly made and safe prescription
given.
Integration of Health Care Service and other
Related Organizations.
In the dentist’s surgery, the patient’s
allergy to penicillin will be highlighted
to the dentist if he proposes to prescribe
penicillin.
In physiotherapy, the physiotherapist will
know from the system that his patient is receiving
treatment for osteoporosis (softening of the
bones) and therefore less likely to accidentally
fracture the spinal bones.
In the opticians’ consulting rooms,
the system will automatically inform the
optician about the patient’s medical
problems, so that a diabetic will receive
timely and correct treatment.
The nurse in the geriatric nursing home
will know that her patient is in danger
from cold weather because of heart and lung
disease and will therefore need influenza
immunisation.
Effective management
of healthcare services is achieved through
better inter-disciplinary communications.
This will assist with the avoidance of duplication
of efforts, which will achieve improved
economies and will eliminate waste.
Nursing activities and data shown in graphical
form.
The e-Hospital can improve disease control
for better healthcare
The
system can produce enough data to identify
the most common diseases and commonly used
pharmaceutical preparations. The epidemiological
data from the system will allow social trends
to be quickly identified and steps can be
taken to prevent medical deterioration.
For example, the prescriptions for more
drugs for breathing difficulties in a geographical
area may indicate excess toxic fumes and
an environmental medical officer will be
able to investigate at an early stage.
Furthermore, an increase of Diabetes in
an area may indicate that socio-economic
factors, unemployment or eating habits are
to blame. Steps may be taken at an early
stage to alleviate the problems found. This
could involve educating the public about
healthy diets and exercise, which is much
more cost-efficient than treatment. This
may then require further action at Government
level to discourage the consumption of saturated
fat simply by addition of the taxes to such
products. These actions will produce a nation
with less heart disease as well as a reduced
incidence of diabetes. Knock-on effects
of these policies could be fewer psychological
problems as a result of people being more
content with their state of health and wellbeing.
Overall benefits will achieve economies
in medical services, ambulance services
and also in police services.
Epidemiological information for Hospital
administration and Health Ministries
The system
optimises patient safety through the expert
system interface
Patients’ safety with automatic positive
guidance for better treatment is an important
feature. The system automatically alerts
the medical user to significant adverse
reactions, allergies, high risk factors,
drug interactions, contra-indications, suitability
of age, suitability during pregnancy and
breast feeding and other attributes, such
as side effects and cost of preparation.
Support services automatically getting departmental
requests
The system
helps to achieve standardisation with positive
guidance
Through expert system interfacing mechanisms
the system makes automatic therapeutic suggestions
and provides positive guidance for diagnoses
and acts as a teaching aid and a tool for
creating better treatment standards.
e-Hospital
can improve healthcare efficiency, increases
quality of care, reduces costs, reduces
hospitalisation and makes better usage of
international standards.
The system will enable medical planners
to make healthcare in their country more
efficient by virtue of its ability to permit
improved inter-disciplinary communications
and by eliminating duplication of efforts.
Along with usage of the international classification
of diseases (ICD/10) it will standardise
healthcare in line with World Health Organization
requirements.
HIIMS with Smartcard
The
smart card medical records systems that's
so effective you'll wonder how you ever managed
before!
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Horizon
Intelligent Medical System (HIIMS) is
a "State-of-the-Art" system,
for use by doctors, nurses, health care
managers and administrators. Using smart
cards to store medical records, the
system not only solves your record storage
problems but also makes the medical
record more accessible. It assists in
the running of any hospital or practice
making it more efficient, and, due to
its low cost, it is available to institutions
which previously could not afford large
clinical systems.
Its uses include preventive care, research
activities, decision support, accounting
and epidemiology. Its operations could
not be more straightforward; each patient
is issued with a credit-card sized smart
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which stores the patient's medical history,
so the patient can travel between consultants
and his record travels with him - even if
this is between different hospitals or doctors
or even countries!
The benefits of this
system for your institution are great.
Not only can doctors learn immediately about
patient's medical histories, but also which
drugs they are currently taking. So that each
time a doctor treats a patient he can do it
safely and appropriately - ensuring the treatment
or prescription won't interact adversely with
the patient's current therapy.
This is good for the patient and gives
negligence protection to the doctor.
Flexible and yet easy to operate
The system has been designed to be
used by people who aren't computer experts,
so even through it’s a powerful medical
tool, it's flexible and simple to set up and
operate. Diagnoses are recorded using ICD-10.
read or RCGP codes, although if a diagnosis
is more complicated or more detail is needed,
the system is flexible enough to allow free
text to be entered. Any medical information
can be entered including examination details,
prescriptions and treatments. Furthermore,
because of its search capabilities, it is
far more useful than any other system, saving
you time by allowing records to be scanned
with reference to disease codes or by referring
to free text. This makes the system useful
for surveys, statistical analysis and preventative
care. HIIMS is self-checking, constant "on-line"
help and positive guidance are in-built
features of the system.
An Intelligent system with self-checking
So why do we describe the system
as being intelligent?
That's because it's self-checking. You are
automatically warned when the patient would
have an adverse reaction to treatment or
a prescription. In addition the system has
details of all prescribed drugs, so it knows
when and which drugs have been prescribed
and allows you to deal with them appropriately.
HIIMS will analyse all the relevant data,
such as previous consultations, diagnoses,
treatments and general family history. It
can use this data and inter-relate these
factors to act as a decision support function.
It will automatically alert the doctor to
significant adverse reactions of drugs,
related allergies, high risks factors, drug
interactions, contra-indications, side effects
and perceived unsuitability of drugs for
patients due to certain factors such as
pregnancy and breast feeding. It will even
guide the doctor on a review of certain
medical aspect of patient's histories using
user-defined protocols.
All this lets you treat patients more confidently
then ever before, even with patients that
you may be seeing for the first time.
Available to all Hospitals--large
or small
The HIIMS software can be used on your existing
computers, whether they are micros, minis,
or a mainframe, so you don't need to invest
in lots of hardware. And due to the low
unit cost of each smart card, this cost
can even be passed to the patient.
Because the system has modular design you
can add to it as your organization grows,
allowing you to invest in a system suitable
to your particular needs. It can cope with
an unlimited number of records, the only
restriction is the size of your computer.
There isn't even a limit set on the length
of the patients records, giving you insurance
against obsolescence.
Making your organization safer and
more efficient
HIIMS is a system that will revolutionize
the running of your organization. It has
uses relevant to all levels of your organization,
leading to a safer and more efficient working
environment.
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