Feasibility study of establishing a hospital information system in a developing country

• Main Authors: Ching-Sheng Chung, 鍾清勝
• Other Authors: Ueng-Cheng Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15787245945443835599

碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 生物醫學資訊研究所 === 101 === In developed countries, both medical centers and health clinics in the communities have information systems to facilitate registration, diagnosis and prescription, etc. The significant outcomes of medical information technologies include improving process of hospital services, reducing human resource loading, and saving time to transmit information, enhancing accessibility of medical information, and increasing working efficiency. Using open source software can not only eliminate the developing costs of a hospital information system, but also can decrease cost of debuging and upgrading regularly. Moreover, the hospital may import more GNU health extension-modules into original hospital information system based on demands in the future. A feasibility study of establishing an open-source based HIS System in a developing country may help her hospitals provide better medical services. Sao Tome and Principe is a low-income developing islands country in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa. The national central hospital of Sao Tome and Principe still uses papers to keep their medical records. Thus, it is a good model to study the feasibility of introducing an open source Hospital Information System (HIS) to this hospital. The paper formats of medical records will be converted to Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. After surveying the needs from hospital personnel, a plan to implement the network infrastructure, to set up the “GNU-health” hospital information system, to train the administrative and clinical staffs, was proposed. The feasibility of this plan was discussed.