The three main IS providers in the
Philippines are the following:
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Hospital Information System?
 Computer system structured to manage all
records of health care providers to make
information and reports available to other
health care personnel
 This will ultimately ead to an increase
efficiency in doing their task and
responsibilities
Different Departments in Hospital
(Main departments)
1. Nursing station
 Can be used in easier constructing
patients’ charts
2. Physicians
 It may give them access to patient records
anytime, making monitoring more easy
3. Radiology
 The information system may serve as the
data base storage of radiologic test results
4. Pharmacy
 Can be used to monitor the utilization of
medications
5. Laboratory/Pathology
 HIS can be used to send official laboratory
results to the different departments in a
hospital
Selecting/Purchasing a Hospital
Information System
3 parameters that should be
considered:
1. Total Cost
 The IS must fit the budget of the
hospital or institution.
2. The Web-based system
 The IS must be readily connected to the
internet to allow the exchange of
information within and between hospitals.
3. Implementation and Support
 The provider or vendor of the Hospital
Information System must provide
appropriate training and
assistance on how to use the system.
1. Bizbox
2. MedSys KCCI
3. COMLOGIK
Functions of a Hospital
Information System
1. Help Desk
 Address frequently asked questions
 A place where to find instructions on how
to use the information system
2. Patient registration/admission
 Allows entry of patient-related information
into the system
3. Patient discharge
 Refers to any information acquired when
a patient is moved from “hospital to
home”.
4. Transfer
 Refers to any information acquired when
patient is moved from hospital to another
health care facility.
o Ex: a patient is from a community
health care institution (small hospital)
who needs more extensive medical
care attention; the patient would be
transferred to another hospital (big
hospital)
o However, if a patient is considered
lifeless and was transferred to a facility
(Forensic facility)—the term can’t be
used if the patient is declared
lifeless or if a patient left the
facility without any authorized
permission.
5. Billing
 Allows the user to view a patient’s record
of hospital transactions and outstanding
balances
 Sometimes, there are institutions na MT
ung nagbibill ng tests sa mismong account
nung patient using HIS
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6. Generate Medical Reports
 Laboratory, radiology, cardiology reports
(ECG)
 The HIS can display elements
administrative or clerical information
 In laboratory, we can input results,
information about the specimen used to
perform the test
 In radiology, provide details of the
requested radiology examination or
procedures
 For cardiology reports, it contains
important medical vascular information
based on the test results.

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Laboratory Information Management
System (lims)
 Designed to help in process of information in
medical research to improve the efficiency of
the department’s services and laboratory
operations by reducing manual tasks and
procedures
Functional Requirements and
Features of LIMS
1. Sample management
 Used to ensure that sample mix- up is
avoided
2. Workflow management
 Refers to coding methods, instruments,
and procedures
 Ex: each laboratory test must be linked to
appropriate section or analyzer in the
laboratory
3. Reporting
 Refers to data analysis and formulation of
recommendations for future policy making
 Ex: the implementation of necessary
changes to a laboratory protocol if LMIS
report shows that the turnaround time
from specimen collection to the release of
official results for a certain test is not met
by the laboratory.
4. ehr
 Contains lifetime record of patient
information which may be synched with
gadgets of patient (carried out through
mobile function)
5. Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP)
 Allows MTs to perform Inventory
Function
o Monitoring current laboratory supplies,
o Storage capacity
o Location of these supplies
LIMS Applications
1. Patient Registration
 Contains/we can input pertinent
information such as patient
number/patient ID, name of the patient,
civil status, sex, HMO card no., birthdate,
age
 sometimes diagnosis of the patient and
room number/ ward are included here
2. Billing
 Sometimes MTs will be assigned to encode
the bills of the patient
 Cost of laboratory procedures requested
for a certain patient
3. Contract Management
 Most LIMS allow the laboratory
professionals to manage the billing and
payment aspects of their activities to
create statistical and billing reports on a
par with the laboratory and management
needs.
 Ex: if a staff needs to go under training for
a laboratory to operate or run a certain
tests (Proficiency training)
4. Accounts Receivables
 Through the LIMS, the personnel of
accounts receivable can easily extract
information and do the following:
o Generate specific or complete
accounts receivable reports;
o Monitor balances for reconciliation
and audit purposes;
o Export data to other accounting
systems, and
o Customize reports according to
specifications
Laboratory Standards, Work list,
Workflow and Quality Control
 Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) released an
“Occupational Exposure to Hazardous
Chemicals in Laboratories Standard” in
2011 to facilitate laboratory safety.
 Chemical Hygiene Plan discusses all
aspects of the laboratory standards (from
proper purchase, storage, handling and
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 disposal of chemicals used in the
laboratory) should be formulated if the
standards apply.
 These standards ensure the safety and
well-being of the staff or kung sino mag-
handle ng chemicals

o T’type ni MT ung test request

 LIMS assists laboratories in setting priorities of
current workloads based on analyst and
instrument availability.
 The queuing and worklist features that
provides insights about when an event
occurred, how long it was, and who was
involved.
 functions operate to facilitate more efficient
laboratory processes.
 Within a system there is a smaller
system which is the work list and workflow
o Sample kukunin kay patient
o Sample will be processed in a clinical
instrument
o This clinical instrument will generate results
o Results will be translated or reported
 Dapat daw ung na-download na test
request ng LIMS for each specimen of
each patient, pwede i-integrate sa clinical
instrument
 Yung clinical instrument, gagawin niya
kung ano man ung test nan naka-upload
kay IS

 Diagnostic tests executed in the clinical

laboratory may yield two kinds of results
o patient result
o quality control result
 used to verify whether or not the
instrument is working within
prescribed parameters
 Based on the said results, the
reliability of a patient’s test results will
be determined

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 Used to reduce clerical errors due to
unreadable handwriting
 LMIS modules are commonly linked to a
barcoding label generator which enables a
fast and easy method to identify tubes,
samples, documents, and many others.
 The information can easily be found and
retrieved effortlessly using a barcode scanner.

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 A two-way communication between the

information system and the clinical instrument
is required.
 The LIMS downloads the test orders and
specimen IDs for each test then the clinical
instruments uploads the same information for
analysis

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