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Tuesday 17 December 2019

What Is Health Information System (HIS) & Its Importance?


Technological advancement has brought evolution in every sector, making the management process speedy and seamless, serving more people worldwide. The healthcare sector is no exception. The arena of healthcare informatics, combined with healthcare data, information technology, and business, has gained a huge boost from technology. Health Information System (HIS) is such a technological boon for the health industry, helping the management of healthcare data with utter efficiency. The implementation of this system helps in improving the quality of patient care, reducing operational cost, making administration data error-free and shaping the entire internal management process more organized. 
If you are new to this industry, this post will help you understand the important features of HIS, what benefits you can get from HIS and how it can make your business activities seamless and profitable. So, without further ado, let’s start the discussion. 

Benefits of Health Information System

  • Organized & Coordinated Treatment Process
Health Information System is a technology-driven system that makes the process of sharing protected health information (PHI) between organizations and providers really hassle-free. Also, because of this system, patients are able to get seamless and coordinated treatment from healthcare providers. Especially, the patients whose diagnoses need cross-specialty treatment coordination and substantial medical information management get the maximum benefits from HIS. And above all, it improves the delivery of the care and outcomes of the patients.
  • Improved Patient Safety
As you get easy access to patients’ data with the help of Health Information Systems, you can save all the information and share across multiple databases to improve the safety of the patients. Even you can get alert notification whenever there are any issues related to patients’ health. For example, the healthcare providers can receive an alert from program security checking about the harmful effects patients may experience on any particular medicine if they have that without being prescribed. This way you can avoid committing any serious mistake that happens due to the lack of details available during making the decisions.