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The main goal of the Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) is to support the hospital's administrative management and transaction processing business, reduce the labor intensity of transaction processing personnel, assist hospital management, assist senior leaders in decision-making, and improve the hospital's work efficiency, thereby It enables hospitals to obtain better social and economic benefits with less investment, such as financial systems, personnel systems, inpatient management systems, drug inventory management systems, etc., which fall within the scope of HMIS.
The main goal of the Clinical Information System (CIS) is to support the clinical activities of hospital medical staff, collect and process patients' clinical medical information, enrich and accumulate clinical medical knowledge, and provide clinical consultation, auxiliary diagnosis and treatment, and auxiliary clinical decision-making. Improve the work efficiency of medical staff and provide patients with more, faster and better services. Systems such as doctor order processing systems, patient bedside systems, doctor workstation systems, laboratory systems, and drug consultation systems fall within the scope of CIS.
There is no doubt that a complete hospital information system (Integrated Hospital Information System, IHIS) should include both hospital management information system and clinical medical information system.
Hospital management information systems require fewer resources. In comparison, the disk capacity, number of workstations, network transmission capabilities, and monitor quality required are far lower than those of CIS.
---The computer technology that supports hospital management information systems is relatively simple and simple. Since the hospital management information system mainly processes text and digital data and is less involved in complex requirements such as dynamic transmission of sounds, images, and multimedia data, it is much easier to implement.
---Clinical information systems generally have more stringent requirements than management information systems in terms of real-time requirements for data processing, response speed, security and confidentiality, etc.
---Considering input and output, most hospital decision-makers believe that HMIS can enable hospitals to obtain system returns more directly, more obviously, and more quickly than CIS. That is to say, with less investment, you can get greater benefits.
Of course, HMIS and CIS are not completely separate. HMIS often involves some patients’ clinical information. In particular, the patient master index, medical record homepage and other information it collects are often the basis of CIS’s patient-centered clinical medical information. Once the CIS is established, it will often make the HMIS work more accurate and efficient.