The Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) will implement Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) to ensure effective governance, efficiency and transparency at all levels, optimum use of human as well as technical human resource.
The two-year project costing at Rs 160.462 million will be initiated in collaboration with Sindh Information Technology Department in the current fiscal.
According to contents of the project, the IT Department will appoint a manager and project engineer to look after the project affairs for the two years and later hand it over to hospital administration.
CHK Medical Superintendent Dr Kaleem Butt, talking to reporters at his office here on Thursday, said the project had been approved by concerned authorities and would be implemented as soon as funds were released.
The project aims at making planning efficient and forecasting through historical data, improve and maintain medical data collection as well as patient historical data efficiently beside its on time evaluation.
It would expand the scope of health management information system to the hospitals, especially to collect the indoor data in the first level care facilities throughout the country, he told.
This will bring a revolutionary change in the hospital management system, which is outdated at present. Attendance of doctors and other staff, proper record keeping of stores, electronic medical record will be the part and parcel of the project. Its recurring cost, which is estimated to be Rs 20.59 million, will also be born by the IT Department.
For the said project, around 235 computers' stations and 30 servers would be installed at various places of the hospital, Dr Butt maintained.
He said the HIMS would be turnkey solution that would allow user to register and record not only patient information about its admission, treatment and removal, but also about other functions such as purchase and procurement of drugs and other related items. Once the data is consolidated, any type of management analysis that is patients' history, medical record, stock position, goods received and supplied and other recordings are possible providing complete picture of organisational status as well as activity at all locations.
Thus, it will enhance the efficiency and efficacy of services, which will ultimately bring improvement in patient care and its management as compared to existing practices, he added.
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