Dinesh Shah wrote:
Hi All!
I will meeting a charitable hospital management tomorrow. They want to migrate to FOSS technologies for their hospital. This hospital caters to about 1000 OPD cases on daily bases.
They already have some accounting, attendance and payroll software running on MS Windows. They would also like to know if the same can me run on the Linux (GNU/Linux) system.
There are already software like care 2x which can take care of most hospital management tasks. However, they do not have things like payroll and accounting. These will need to be added or linked from other software.
In fact, we are already working on deploying Care 2x for hospitals and nursing homes. Contact me offline if you think we can work together.
I would like to get inputs from people who are associated with health care industry what are the components and tools required for Hospital Management. Are these tools available in FOSS. If yes, how good are they? What amount of customisation will be required?
The problem is not so much on the software as is the structure of the hospitals. Most of them will not have the people or resources to use the software. More than the software, you need consulting firms like us who can take them through a Process Re-engineering so that they can acutally make proper use of the software. Most of the people we spoke to in the industry indicated the same problem. The problem is going to be in getting people to use the software.
On the other hand, most of the hospitals have pathetic information and documentation system. With exception of places like the BARC hostpital, most of them actually depend on the patient bringing the previous prescriptions and reports back to the doctor when they come. This practice has got to change as the courts and insurance companies have started to rap the hospitals and take them to task on absence of documents which are needed to defend themselves against alegation of misconduct / mistreatement.
This is therefore the correct time for hospitals to make the changes.
Regards Saswata
TIA for all your feedback and inputs. With regards,