Healthcare Information System

The Healthcare Organizations and providers have now realized the benefits of using Information Technology to enhance their business processes and automate and simplify tasks. Information technology helps in achieving high accuracy in diagnoses, improving patient care service, reducing the human errors, decreasing the processing time, and increasing the quality of service.

With more than five years of experience working on complex healthcare projects, Digicorp understands that quality, reliability and patient safety are top priorities when developing healthcare software products - especially in a distributed environment.

Digicorp’s solutions for the healthcare an life sciences practice automates patient management, eliminating redundant steps and manual error-prone interaction. The application is built on an object oriented 3-tiered architecture.

Modules in Brief:

Appointment

This module automates the process of appointment booking/scheduling in clinic.

EMR (Electronic Medical Record)

• This module stores all medical data related to patient’s clinic visit.
• Provides analysis of all data related to patient’s previous clinic visits.
• Provides the clinicians a better knowledge about the patient’s health status .
• Helps clinicians to take accurate Medical decisions.

Billing

• This module is a solution for Clinic Management, Patient Scheduling, Medical Billing, Insurance Claim Processing.
• It is HIPAA Compliant.
• The capabilities of Billing Module is explained in a separate document.

The Features of Appointment Module are listed below:

• Quick Registration on phone as well as at clinic.
• Multiple scheduling views
• All Appointment insurance verification.
• Automatic and manual alert popup
• Comprehensive Data Search
• Fully automatic Document manger
• Scan and store patients documents
• Digital camera interface
• Barcode printing
• Internal Messaging system
• Internal Email facility within the system
• User friendly Database Backup and Restore

EMR (Electronic Medical Record)

The heart of our healthcare solution is the EMR module. It helps physicians in handling all their day-to-day activities like on line ordering of investigation, procedures, drugs and consumables along with capturing of diagnosis of patients. The module also helps the physician in retrieving patient medical records and in decision making like drug allergy indication and problems.

EMR module follows the basic four steps for patient check up which is called SOAP.

Subjective

• Questionnaires for Review of body system

Objective

• Physical check up which means Physical Exam

Analysis

• Diagnosis as per subjective and objective examination.

Planning

• Procedure for diagnosed diseases and planning includes Medication (prescription), Lab order, X-ray order, Referral Order (whether to go to Ophthalmologist, Gynecologist), Immunization/Injection.

The features of EMR are listed below:

• Provider Desktop Manager
  • Physician notes
  • A standard set of chief complaints and history of present illness are recorded through five levels of pre-set templates, provision for direct typing, clinical referrals which allows the provider/physician to refer the patient to another provider/specialist or clinic
  • Records patient assessment and treatment plan
  • Diagnosis codes: Records International Code for Disease (ICD) codes
  • Records Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes
  • The provider desktop manager allows the provider to perform a number of administrative function and task such as
    • Ordering and order status
    • Medical images
    • Immunization chart
    • Recording Vitals Signs (like Temperature, Blood Pressure, Pulse rate, weight, etc.)
    • Clinical care file

Billing

Billing module is meant for the usage by Biller and Admin.

Features of Billing module

• Charge Processing
• Payment Processing
• Patient
• Collection Cycle
• Claim Processing
• Advanced Reports

Laboratory Module

The laboratory module is tightly integrated with other modules and can receive requests for lab tests from other modules like Provider Desktop manager, Nursing station and Operation Room (OR).

This module integrates with medical equipments and supports bi-directional interfaces for the equipments. It covers processes like order collection, patient check-in, sample collection, test processing, report preparation and report dispatch.

Further, the features of the Laboratory Module are listed below.

• Supports setup of profiles with facility to include a profile within another profile.
• Single window result entry facility provided for all the orders of a patient.
• Online Ordering System to receive orders requested by physicians, nursing stations and departments.
• Ability to define main laboratory categories and assign all laboratory tests to their category (such as Bio chemistry, hematology etc)
• The specimen is tracked through each step from collection to receipt in the laboratory, processing, test completion and result reporting.
• Patient, collection, test, and specimen labels can be printed that includes container type and volume requirements
• Bar code format set up
• The order priority can be set to Normal, Urgent or Emergency while ordering.
• Investigation turn around times can be reported as the time is captured at each stage – order receipt, sample collection and result entry.
• The hospital can select and configure its services to international code of its choice. (ICD 10 PCS, ICD 10 CM).
• Reagents, chemicals and consumables can be indented electronically.
• Sample can be rejected and collected again with a fresh number if the samples is spoiled or damaged.

Radiology module

The Radiology module of ERP offers a comprehensive system to cater to all the requirements of the Radiology Department. It provides for scheduling of appointment for examinations, examination processing, post examination results reporting and film tracking.

Appointments can be scheduled to various clinics for examinations to be conducted.  Timetables can be set up for different clinics with details of the days and times on which the clinic operates, so that the time slots can be allotted to specific patients. 

Appointment cards are generated and handed over to patients along with the instructions to be followed before coming for attending the examination.  Appointments can be canceled if required.  Groups of days can be blocked/unblocked for various reasons by the department.

The System has the capability to approve correctness of radiology orders. Such a feature is assigned only to authorized laboratory users.  Radiology test turn around times can be reported as the time is captured at each stage – order receipt, test performance and result entry.

The Radiology module of ERP offers a comprehensive system to cater to all the requirements of the Radiology Department. It provides for scheduling of appointment for examinations, examination processing, post examination results reporting and film tracking.
Appointments can be scheduled to the various clinics for examinations to be conducted.  Timetables can be set up for different clinics with details of the days and times on which the clinic operates, so that the time slots can be allotted to specific patients.  Appointment cards are generated and handed over to patients along with the instructions to be followed before coming for attending the examination.  Appointments can be canceled if required.  Groups of days can be blocked/unblocked for various reasons by the department.

The System has the capability to approve correctness of radiology orders. Such a feature is assigned only to authorized laboratory users.

Admission – Transfer – Discharge (ADT) Module

The ADT module of the IDMSys tracks all the Admissions, Discharges and Transfers in a hospital.  It handles the creation of temporary beds and allotting them to patients and deleting these beds etc.  It also supports facilities like admitting baby to mother’s bed and linking mother and baby in patient numbers etc. The bed type, location and tariff are mapped to each bed.

The features of the ADT module are listed below.

• The system has the ability to do pre-admission activities like block bed, book medical equipment, book operation room, collect advance against the expected admission. A user friendly graphical interface displays the bed availability status.
• The system comes with a complete pre discharge process.
• The system has the capability to record all medical staff involved in the patient’s care process.
• The system captures all payment details like insurance coverage or employer details in case of corporate clients.
• Against each admission, the system records and displays all the details including orders, results, surgeries, procedures, medications and all patient encounter information.
• The system has the ability to print personalized discharge instructions that indicates all departments involved. Prescription, and follow up appointments of the patient can be prepared at the time of discharge.
• The system can also generate a discharge summary based on the details available in the System.
• The system automatically releases the bed when a patient is discharged or transferred out to be handed over to the housekeeping department for cleaning and disinfection.