Health Information System

The Executive Summary

The Health Information System document gives the explanation of the dedicated software in health services. The document presents the Health Information System as the application software that intends to solve health problems by automating the services delivered in the health sector. The article discusses the problems encountered in the health sector that can get solved using the Health Information System. The paper defines the current situation in the health sector. The article gives an overview of the current problems within the health sector, the needs, and the requirement as specified in the data collection process. The article outlines the purpose of the Health Information System project, the objective, the aims, and the scope of the Health Information System. The document specifies the actual requirements of the system regarding the resources required. The article explains the relationship between health objectives as well as the health long-term and short-term plans (Seyedin, & Jamali, 2011). The article also gives an overview of the progress of other health sectors. The sectors outlined include the public and government hospitals. The paper gives an overview of the entire system through the provision of the definite time of delivering the final project. The article provides the health advantage, the technical advantage and the procurement advantage in the development and implementation of the system. The paper gives the impact of implementing the Health Information System on health and the operating individuals. The various actors are considered and the effects on their daily operations. The document presents a session that discusses the risk assessment process to determine the viability of the proposed project in the health sector. The article gives the results of the feasibility study as well as analyzes the cost of implementing the proposed system. The document analyzes the implementation strategy, the development procedures, and the milestones during the proposed project life cycle. The article explains the contract management processes by explaining the tools applies during the development process. The article outlines the special needs within the development process. The document outlines the qualities that should contribute towards the project approval by reviewing the project status. The article gives personal views on the proposed project through the use of recommendations. Finally, the document provides the entire events concerned with the case signing off.

Introduction to the Problem

The current situation in the health sector uses partial computer-based operations. From the data and information collected through observation, the health sector has personal computers which are not shared among the organization departments. The data and information relating to a patient are recorded in different areas and locations by different individuals. The interview data collection methodology revealed that the data and information collected is recorded on personal computers using the Microsoft Excel application software (Kuosmanen, et al…, 2010). The method of recording of patient data and information apply the multiple patient points of service making the health sector keep related information in a different location and obtain similar data and information. The research revealed that the data and information stored in personal computers is redundant with the registration process being repeated at each patient point of service. The observation data and information analysis revealed that the personal computers in each level of customer service are not shared among the health departments. The multiple points of services do not share data and information of a single patient thus making the patient service point have different data and information that is not accessible by other employees. The interview data collection technique revealed that the entire organization has no means of obtaining data and information through search techniques. The mode of patient data and information entry is limited to a few attributes of the patient profile. The observation revealed that the patient point of service attendants has no means of capturing consistent and progressive records of the patients due to a lack of proper parameters for addressing patients. The interview methodology approach revealed that the data entry procedures are not centralized to individual patient accounts rather it is by first come first serve without referencing or updating the previous records of the clients. Thus, the registering process and point of patient services cannot provide detailed records of patient visits to the hospital.

Proposal Overview

The planned well-being data framework should have the ability to mechanize the well-being area through executing distinctive modules to help diverse capacities in the well-being part. The different framework applications that should bolster the wellbeing part incorporates the improvement of the patient enrollment module, the choice help module, the home patient versatile application and the circulation framework for database bolster. The Formless Additional Facility Data might teach the victims about the recommended drug plan the time and the capacities to take. The impression of the fresh app should give organized suggestions by assigning human services management to the patient’s sites during the period of disaster and on basic conditions. The proposed Health Information System should enhance the therapeutic administrations and additionally observing of the patient’s conditions in the most advantageous way as indicated by patients’ needs. The whole framework might enhance the procedures including the sharing of information and data through the usage of the circulated framework. The system should get enhanced as seen in the framework investigation process.

The scope of the project

The Scheme expects to assist both persons in wide-ranging and reserved well-being parts. The agenda should be restricted to the well-being areas of a prearranged number of roles. The performing artists inside the System should include the Administrator, the specialists, the medical caretakers, the carefulness team, and the victims. The diverse sizes requirements and liabilities might be considered inside the employed accounts and the stages of background association. The obtainability of System management, benefits, and applications might trust upon the arrangement of the customers in the extension (Konstantinidis, et al…, 2012). It is neither constrained to the particular working framework nor limited to particular parameters of utilization. In any case, the extent of operation might be restricted to the invention classified as a negotiate of fifty years. With future redesigning and audit of documentation code for care, the System can be stimulated to familiarize itself with future advances.

Use Case diagram

Figure 1: Health Information System Use Case Diagram

The Objectives

The Health Information System has two types of objectives namely the functional objectives and nonfunctional objectives. The functional objectives include

1. Provide a registration module that implements personal profile information for consistent records
2. A system with patient home supports USSD mobile platform for easier accessibility
3. A system capable of analyzing customer symptoms to provide treatment decision support
4. A system with ability to share data across all platforms irrespective of the structure to support communication within the health sector

Ecological Investigation

It is a devoted framework going for giving one-of-a-kind administration to the last client with a goal of improving the framework the assurance adds up to fulfillment of the client prerequisites and details. The Health Information System has been actualized in the private wellbeing area yet with constrained highlights and functionalities. The current framework grasped by a large portion of the private divisions constitutes an enrollment module, and fundamental tasks inside the wellbeing offices like the drug store stock frameworks, databases, inpatient and outpatient administration frameworks, and also the client examination application frameworks. The planned System is remarkable by actualizing the expansion units like the USSD versatile presentation connection, the choice help interfaces, the enormous information provision, and information excavating strategies. The nature of the framework is finest with critical low execution, improvement, and support cost.

Marketplace Willingness

The present prosperity portions require the unique offices to rouse the comfort of their customer and pass on worthy services to the patient. The concentration on part is rapidly creating the demand to offer snappy and strong organizations within a short term of time. The use of a convenient structure supports the brisk correspondence frameworks with the patients at whatever point locally and remotely. In this way reassuring basic transparency, flexibility, and straightforwardness are trademarks required by the prosperity budgetary experts.

Operational and Business Impacts

The primary zones including the operational and vital structure of the wellbeing segment influenced by the usage of this System incorporate the operational effects and the wellbeing area impacts. The wellbeing area impacts influenced by the new framework incorporate the alteration of the exceed expectations method of information section, change in the diagnosing systems and parameters, and change in the patients’ entrance and correspondence with the wellbeing specialists.

Project Roadmap and Approval Process

The Health Information System shall have various project implementation testing and milestone that shall be followed and evaluated by the committee for project portfolio management. The team of management team shall access the development progress of the entire system thus proving the project development process constraints to the actual development platforms as required (Rahimi, et al…, 2009). The proposed Health Information System shall be proved by the board of directors in the health sector to give the mandate of initializing the development of the proposed system. The initialization of the development process shall rely on the approval of the project.

Recommendations

I definitely recommend the entire well-being division to put capital into the planned project for it is suitable to intimate all degrees of task. The endeavor is newest with the usage of the latest app techniques and the execution of the current designs in the economy. The helpfulness of the Scheme confirms an irregular condition of adaptability, convenience, and easy-to-use connections. The cost for the implementation is significantly low with the successful possibility of all prerequisite details and desires as conveyed in the material gathering session.

Appendix 2 Elicitation 2 Observation

The number of respondents in the study

Actors	Sample	respondents
Patients	200	150
Nurses	200	120
Doctors	200	130

 

Appendix 3 Health Information System the Schedule

	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	November
Designing of the distributed database program
The designing and implementation of the  registration module
The designing and implementation of  the decision support system
The designing and implementation of  the USSD mobile application

 

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