Case Study on Smart Healthcare Center

As we knew the technology is changing our life day to day, especially with Smart Mobile and Devices. As we have many devices to communicate and to interconnectivity between system, Current hospital’s system are using computerized information to store data. But with changing Devices and technologies there is scope for delivering smarter information to administrator system. The study is focus on analyzing current hospital information system and finding areas for improvement, identifying newer technologies to fulfill requirement.

Introduction

Nowaday’s Health Care Center are facing a critical challenge to manage financial and information related to patient. To delivering the right information to the right person at the right time which is most difficult task at health care center, any hospital will be able to improve the Services and make processes more efficient so that patient will get correct information. To Change Health Care Center into Smart Health Care Center System needs to take help from various smart devices which are present market and some may be coming in future. These various devices will help to Organization flow of data between systems and can be deliver better information to patients, care providers and also to doctors.

The study is based on comparison between different Health Care Information System, how they are being used currently in different areas and thus finding key areas for improvement. The study area is very broad and requires source of information to be gather from different fields.

With increasing population demand for Health Care management system are increasing. Most of major hospitals in India have adopted computerized hospital management information system. Individual department in Health Care have computerized information system but lack of stronger and smarter interconnectivity between them. But still with changing technology there is scope for improvement. A new generation of feature-rich, easy-to-use advanced devices like digital ECG (electrocardiogram), Ventilator system, wireless temperature counter, smart phones is keeping doctors organized and connected wherever they go and are helping to treat patient time to time so every patient will checked according to time.

Existing Modules And Scope Of Improvement

Hospital Administration:The regular activities for administration include registration, appointment, admission, billing and discharge. Currently appointments with doctors are done using their fix schedule at hospitals. But there is always need to change as doctors always need to attend emergency patient on priority bases. There is always need for efficient, time saving means of communication between doctors, hospitals, patient and all other concern staff. We can manage this system by building collaborative system comprised of smart phones or tablets, automated scheduling mobile app which will be connected with appointment system at hospital and with all concern persons of health care center at particular time schedule so they will send or receive changes in schedule. We can use system like Aadhar Card to make patient’s basic entry at the time of emergency.

Doctors Module: As a hospital doctor, doctor should examine, diagnose and treat patients who have been referred to by physician and other health professionals. However, the following responsibilities are likely to be carried out on a daily or weekly basis, regardless of the doctor's specialty. Doctors can enhance their responsibility by using several new techniques.

Surgery: Doctors, specifically surgeons, are the only who can completely perform most surgical procedures. But first assistant nurses may suture, handle and cut tissue. Here, For example, Doctor Can able to send information about some pretest for any surgery to pathology lab directly from tab or pad, so that, patient can only just go and do the suggested test.

Diagnoses: In general, doctors provide the diagnoses in heath care center settings, while nurses provide nursing diagnoses, judgments about adjustments to daily patient care. Here, without coming directly contact with the body, Bio sensing Surface machines can monitor & diagnose patient.

Treatment: With the exception of surgery, doctors generally prescribe treatment in a hospital setting; Doctors may order therapy, injections and changes of dressing. The Touch robots are just one type of technology that enables telemedicine, in which the doctor and patient are in different locations. Telemedicine can help hospitals keep tabs on patients after they're discharged, making sure they follow instructions and avoid the need to be readmitted.

Laboratory: The Laboratory performs various tests under the following disciplines: Biochemistry, Cytology, Hematology, Microbiology, Serology, Neurology and Radiology. The Laboratory can be automated by enabling doctor to send online investigation request and the process involved in delivering the results to the concerned department/doctor of the hospital can also be automated. Touch based sensors as an interface can be used to ensure efficient use of time. Smart phones can be used to monitor current state as well as completed report.

Blood bank: Existing module in the Blood Bank Management System is deal with maintaining all information regarding the donors and recipients. Requirement of blood can be placed for schedule operative. In case of emergency just few click can send blood requirement along with place of requirement by automatically tracking device location (by GPS for distant location or device ID within same premises). In response blood bank can take immediate action based on priority of situation so as to ensure timely blood delivery.

Conclusion

With advances in digital medical equipments, wireless sensors it is possible to gather data timely and precisely. It is possible to create centralized system connecting each device in hospital further this system can be connected with smart phones/tablets thus enabling more monitoring and control of operations even from remote location. Process of automation can be enhance with reduced redundancy with help of centralized interconnected system.