What is Clinical Information System?

Clinical Information System (CIS) is an integrated information system designed to manage all the aspects of a hospital operation, from medical, administrative to financial. It is an important tool used to improve the quality of health care service and to reduce the chance of errors. With the ever-shifting technological advancements in this generation, CIS replaces paper charts and records of the past.

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CIS main demands are correct data storage, reliable usage, fast to reach data, secure to keep data on storage and lower cost of usage. Its aim is to achieve the best possible support of patient care and outcome and administration by presenting data when needed and acquiring data when generated.

With this, important decisions are based on accurate, updated information. In an emergency, doctors can immediately access the complete medical history of a patient. Test results can be accessed instantly. Doctors can also schedule and order the tests directly through the system, and can even send prescriptions directly to the pharmacy.

As this computerized system organizes, stores and double checks all medical information of a patient, it provides a common source of information about a patient’s health history. CIS can enhance the ability of health care professionals to coordinate care by providing a patient’s health information and visit his history at the place and time that it is needed. Patient’s laboratory test information, visual results such as X-ray, prescriptions and doctor's notes may be reachable from professionals, providing internal and external communication among health care providers.

The system, however, has to keep data in secure place and controls who can reach the data in certain circumstances. It only allows authorized personnel instant access to all the important medical information of a patient in real time whenever needed.

Paper databases are (sometimes) not useful during emergencies.

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To sum it up, the following advantages of CIS are:

• Easy access to doctors’ data to generate varied records, including classification based on demographic, gender, age, and so on. It is especially beneficial at ambulatory (out-patient) point, hence enhancing continuity of care. As well as, Internet-based access improves the ability to remotely access such data.
• It helps as a decision support system for the hospital authorities for developing comprehensive health care policies.
• Efficient and accurate administration of finance, diet of patient, engineering, and distribution of medical aid. It helps to view a broad picture of hospital growth
• Improved monitoring of drug usage, and study of effectiveness. This leads to the reduction of adverse drug interactions while promoting more appropriate pharmaceutical utilization.
• Enhances information integrity, reduces transcription errors, and reduces duplication of information entries.
• It is easy to use and eliminates error caused by handwriting. New technology computer systems give perfect performance to pull up information from server or cloud servers.