Integration of hospitalization data with medical record system  

Oleh:

Katoh, Kohsuke ; Ishihara, Masahiko ; Kuroda, Naohiro

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 14th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference (APIEMS), 3-6 December 2013 Cebu, Philippines, page 1-8.
Topik: Bed Management System ; Patient serviceability ; Process improvement ; Electronic treatment record system
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Most Japanese hospitals have been confronting against the country’s rapid aging and the decrease of expenses by medical insurance. In order to keep up with the proper profit of the hospitals, every hospital has to save its administrative cost and to improve operational efficiency. One of the large hospitals with nearly 1000 patients beds is also aiming at such an improvement using IT system. Although it has a large medical record system for treatment for patients, the system only focused to direct treatments by medical doctors and it does not necessarily include the surrounding administrative operations and information. As we are to describe here, the arrangement for patient’s entering hospital requires lots of adjustments among patient’s characteristics, bed specifications, and the equalization of nurse works, etc. However this process had been executed by only human efforts with paper sheets for bed/patient schedule and for and request for entering hospital, as well as telephone communications among a hospitalization reception office, chief nurses, and a bed controller. The introduced solution is to computerize the information used for this process by linking the new system with the medical record system. As a result every person related the process has become able to assign patients to the available beds in a faster way and correctly. It was a challenge for us to overcome the different types of information between doctors’ definite orders including starting/ending bed usage by patients, and nurses’ indefinite decided data of the bed utilization/availability schedule.

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