One of the most significant challenges facing healthcare organizations today is the effective alignment of technology with business goals, and the need to connect its future vision with an actionable technology plan to support it. A well-integrated Healthcare Information Technology platform has the potential to greatly improve patient care, patient safety, and organizational efficiency. But, having an outdated technology can create inefficiencies and pose a major strategic threat to future growth. A continuous comprehensive technological and clinical evaluation of the existing systems in place need to be conducted to identify the current systems’ maturity level compared to a modal Healthcare Information Technology, which in turn increases the efficiency and productivity, improve quality/ effective patient care and reduce medical errors.
 

• To facilitate the clinician and health care practitioners a first of its kind, fully functional bi-directional barcode solution, integrating all the analyzers in the laboratory to the oracle based system, hence reduce manual handling time of the specimen, creating steady workflow process for the laboratory, reducing the total turnaround time and ultimately reducing the errors.

• A PACS solution is to be integrated to the existing Radiology Information System to increase Information sharing, interoperability, medical surveillance and security while reducing end user issues. The Virtual Network (VLAN) infrastructure has been deployed to increase data integrity and protection against data loss, misuse and unauthorized access and to provide next generation data migration, retention and protection.

• The department have electronically integrated all its Medical Centers, Lab Pickup Points and Pharmacies to facilitate the hospital in providing outreach medical services beyond its own walls, in remote or isolated areas through high end routers, fiber optics and high speed Internet DSL lines.

• For effective and timely distribution of information and instructions, a full fledge Intranet solution/ internal mailing system has been deployed in the hospital to facilitate the departments/ users to communicate electronically. These steps have been taken to become cost effective and environment friendly by minimizing the paper use.

• Core Fiber optic backbone data network infrastructure has been extended,

• The Oracle application and database servers have been upgraded to 10G R2

• The client desktop systems has been upgraded to the higher version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, hence making this institution to be amongst the few operation on open source platform.

• Component level repairing expertise have been acquired by the hardware section.

• To facilitate the back office administrative activities of the hospital the department has also successfully implemented hospital wide browse based Material Requisition and Management System, Procurement system and the support the Human resource department as fully automated Human Resources Information Management System, with indigenously developed Biometric Time and attendance management systems.
   

The business goals, the future visions, the business rules and the work flows of the institution are very much dependent upon the ever changing technology, so one of the main objectives of the MIS department is to continuously manage, improve and enhance the workflow of the business in achieving overall success.