You as a Doctor, a general Physician, or the dean of your hospital already know the utmost significance of hospital management software for better clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction.
This is why it goes without saying it’s exceptionally important to learn how to effectively start and develop a Hospital management system that helps you streamline operations, enhance administration, and deliver real plausible benefits to hospitals.
Without healthcare software solutions, Physician specialists, and hospital executives experience a number of problems such as poor communication, lack of procedural inter-hospital collaboration, increased paperwork and dependencies, work inefficiency, and more. All potentially resulting in unnecessary costs or even danger to patients’ lives.
So why, still not, many healthcare administrators including CEOs and board of directors accountable for ensuring patient safety, patient satisfaction, and maintaining the financial health and stability of a healthcare organization lack mandatory Hospital management system software and other latest technologies?
Well, the time for excuses should now be over and this guide is here to help you understand why. We’ll cover how a Hospital administration system can help you in driving better decisions, enhancing clinical outcomes, administration, control, and improved profitability.
Let’s get started by first understanding this.
What is Hospital Management Software?
A Hospital Management Software is a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use web-based system that integrates all the information related to patients, doctors, hospital staff, and all departments into one single software. The software efficiently manages the data of departments such as Patients, Doctors, Pharmacists, Radiologist, Pathologist, Accountant, Receptionist, etc.
A Good Hospital Management System Software-
Provides A Connected Healthcare Ecosystem
Streamlines Medical Records
Enhances Administration And Control
Optimizes Patient Care and Satisfaction
Reduces Hospital Operating Costs
Manages Patients Information Privacy
A smart Hospital Management System is custom built to meet the specific requirement of mid and large size hospitals. The modules and features are built as per individual hospitals’ departmental and administrative needs.
If you contact a Hospital Software Solution Provider to purchase the ready-made healthcare software you can get the entire web-based application customized and modified as per your needs and requirements. (An expert healthcare software development company will always be flexible to customize the software).
Next, if you’re looking to develop the software from scratch you should know what all features, modules, and technologies are used to build a powerful HMS solution. Let’s understand in detail.
How to Develop a Hospital Management Software?
A hospital management software comprises a spectrum of modules and interfaces that accounts for the effective functioning of hospital administration. Here we will discuss the most used and adopted healthcare modules that contribute to improved health care and medical services.
1. Features of Patient Module
The features involved in the patient interface are:
Patient Registration (OPD/IPD)
Outpatient Registration (OPD): Patients who only come for diagnosis, consultation, or other medical treatment but are not admitted to hospital.
In-Patient Registration (IPD): Patients who are admitted into the hospital. In this module, the interfaces can be divided into patient personal information, guardian information, and Doctor’s information.
Online Appointment Scheduling
View upcoming appointment
View medication prescriptions online
View Doctor/Physician detail
Invoice Details
See Admin and Operation history
Check their invoices/bills
See a list of documents, notices, if any
2. Features of Doctor Module
The Doctor should be able to (but not limited to) perform the following functions:
Doctors can create and manage their appointments
Manage patients admissions
Manage bed assigns
Create prescriptions for their patients
Manage reports of patients from OPD/IPD and OT
Doctors can set their schedules of appointments
See the latest notifications
3. Features of Pharmacist Module
A Pharmacist should be able to manage the following interfaces:
Manage medicine categories
Manage medicines
Manage medicine bills
View reports of medicine bills
See the latest notice
View reports of expired medicines
Import medicine
Purchase medicines
Do Live consultation with patients
Be notified with messages, reports, new medicines added, etc.
4. Features of Radiologist Module
A Radiologist should be able to manage the following interfaces:
Manage radiology test & reports
View radiology report
Access their leaves and payrolls
Access patient list
Add charges for the test
Do Live video consultations
5. Features of Pathologist Module
A Pathologist should be able to perform the following functions:
Manage pathology test & reports
Add pathology test
View live video consultation
Access their leaves and payrolls
Post new messages inter department
Upload content related to department
Access patients list with patient’s details and medications
Add charges against all the type of test
6. Features of Accountant Module
The functions of an accountant in a hospital information system include (but not limited to):
Manage invoices created against any bills
Manage Payments by viewing income list, expense list
Access payrolls of all staff members
Access Bills generated against income and expenses
See notifications and alerts from staff, admin
7. Features of Receptionist Module
A Receptionist should be able to perform the following functions:
Create and manage all appointments
See all Patients appointment list and have the option to approve them
Change Patients’ doctors as per availability
Manage all mail services like sending messages to all departments or particular staff member
Create noticeboards and broadcast them for all departments or a single staff member
8. Features of the Admin Module
An Admin should be able to manage the following functions:
Manage all the departments and users
Manage departments and roles
See visual dashboard with total income, upcoming appointments, list of all departments, no. of members in each department
Access payrolls of all staff members, department wise
Set permissions for all departments as well as members
9. Features of Super Admin Module
A Super Admin should be able to manage the following functions:
Manage admins and create roles for them
Assign and manage various staffs roles and permission
Approve and disapprove leaves
Manage and approve attendance
View income versus expenses
View and manage appointments and schedules
Setup department-wise action items and controls
Have an overall view on the numbers of patients and staffs in the system
View the logs of the staff members and should be able to access their information
Access to all the reports including transaction report, patient, doctor, other staff and departments
Send notices, events and announcement
Manage site setting, CMS, and Calendars
Manage all the modules in the hospital information system
Backup and Restore
Cost to Develop a Hospital Management Software
As we have seen an online hospital management software consists of many modules that can be flexibly added or removed according to hospital specific needs and each of these modules has their own set of features and functionalities which require separate coding. Therefore, the cost estimation of the HMS solution is difficult.
However, some of the factors that heavily contribute to the total cost are:
User Interface Design
Module Development
No. of features and functionalities in each module
Third-Party API Integrations
App Complexity
Testing and Maintenance
Additional Factor
Location of software development partner
Development team size
Hour per development
Project timeline
A Ballpark Figure9
The total cost to develop a hospital management software may range somewhere around $20,000 to $70,000.
Improvements in Hospital Productivity Means Automated Health System
Hospital and health system looking to improve the clinical and financial performance of their facilities should shift their entire administration to a robust, flexible, and easy-to-use hospital software system. That said, a good hospital software solution can help in increasing care quality, streamlining processes, and enhancing operational efficiency, ultimately improving the system performance and financial profitability.
Codiant’s custom-built Hospital Management System is designed and developed to meet the specific requirement of mid and large-size hospitals across the globe. Our HMS solution integrates all the required modules and features that are particularly built to fit into your requirements.
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