Use of Health Information Systems for

Financial and Clinical Management

Abstract: Now A Days all healthcare organizations including hospitals, private clinics and other healthcare centers are
seeking to improve their healthcare and financial management processes by integrating Information Systems and following
new technology trends in the Healthcare centers and hospitals. But most of the time it becomes difficult for the organizations to
choose the appropriate Information system that will help in improving financial management, resource management, and the
system which can assists hospital management in activity planning. Furthermore, the crucial part of clinical environment is that
the healthcare organizations are highly dependent on various types of medical equipment to complete the diagnosis and treatment
of the patients this implies that these equipment’s must be kept in a good condition to prevent from future issues. The appropriate
methods that are being followed in this Paper are most of the Data for this paper is based on secondary sources such as past research
on Health information Systems etc. to arrive at conclusive idea of the larger picture on Health information system the Specific
successful case studies of HIS are also Considered. The focus of implementing this system is to serve patients and financial
managers for appropriate decision making in health care sectors.

Keywords: Healthcare, financial management, cost control, clinical management, healthcare centers, Health information
systems.

I. INTRODUCTION1 II. LITERATURE REVIEW

The health information system is specifically designed for

automation and management of data in clinical Centers,
Applications of Health information systems (HIS) has
increased rapidly all over the world for many reasons
including improved monitoring and functioning of clinical
organization and enhanced patient care and better planning.
In addition to being major factor for monitoring and
functioning the Health information system also serves
broader ends. Such that it provides early alerts, and warning
capabilities regarding the cost control and patients health.
Furthermore, basically the purpose and focus of
implementing this system is definitely not to compete but
main focus would be implementation of such system that
serves to clinical management and financial management
departments in healthcare organization and centers so that
healthcare information system (HIS) Provides day to day
facilities to clinical managers and financial managers to
manage the financial areas in health sectors. Moreover, the
Health information system will be that much efficient which
can serve patients in better way.
a) “Health Information Systems in clinical
Department”.
Author: Dr Sudhir Rewar.
Journal Article: International Journal of Scientific &
Engineering, clinical Research Volume 3, Issue 8,
August-2012 2 ISSN 2229-5518.
One of the major challenges faced in current health
information systems is operational efficiency for
clinical and financial management. This review
highlights such limitations of the existing system. And
proposes a health information system (HIS) that
facilitates real time clinical and financial management
for health care sectors, hospitals, clinical organization.
Further, it will also help financial managers in
hospitals to manage cost control, medical equipment
maintenance costs.
b) “study on information system of health
care services management in hospital”
Author(s): Daiping Hu, Antai Sch. of
Manage., Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China
Weiguo Xu ; Huizhang Shen ; Mengyu Li.
Services Systems and Services
Management, 2005. Proceedings of
ICSSSM '05. 2005 International
Conference.
This paper reviews the HIS (Health care
information system). Which are widely used
in many hospitals in china mainly to provide
day to day faster way for clinical activities and
tasks. And provides for overcoming the
limitations of Healthcare information system,
e.g.: Health information system aims at
improving Quality of clinical management
and financial management. But do not have
way of evaluating/measuring Those.
So, this research proposes The Health
information system. Which aims at improving
cost control, identifying cost reduction areas.
c) “Health information Systems (HIS):
Concept and Technology.
Author(s): Mohd. Nabil Almunawar,
Muhammad Anshari. Universiti Brunei
Darussalam. Article March 2012
This Paper reviews that One of the essential
parts of HIS is how to manage relationship
between healthcare providers and patients.
A good relationship is a dynamic one that
the organization become alert to and aware of
changing needs. In turn, when healthcare
organizations manage well, patients will want
to come back, because loyalty and trust are
built. They will know that if they present a
difficulty, the organizations will resolve
professionally. But somehow there is also
need of a system which can solve day to day
problems including managing cost reduction
areas and clinical management.
d) “E-Hospital Management & Hospital
Information Systems- Changing Trends”
Author(s): Premkumar Balaraman,
Kalpana Kosalram.
Schol of Management, SRM University
Vadapalani, Chennai 600026, INDIA
This paper is based on the changing trends of
the Health Information systems in society.
The focus of this paper is on understanding
the performance indicators of Health
Information system (HIS). Summarizing the
latest commonly agreed standards and
protocols. Along with strict cost control and
improved profitability. But there are some
limitations of this E-Health Information
System That there is lack of clinical
management which is a most crucial part of
Health information system.
e) “Health Information Management System
for Elderly Health Sector”
Author(s): Farahnaz Sadoughi, Mehraban
Shahi, Maryam Ahmadi, Nasrin
Davaridolatabadi .
Department of Health Information
Management, Iran University of Medical
Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
This paper reviews That There was Health
Information management system for elderly
Health sector in Iran. However, in all primary
Health care centers the documentation of Data
and information was done manually. Also, the
reporting and analysis of data were done on
manual systems. This approach was
inefficient because the clinical and financial
managers are provided with delayed
information’s.
III. Methods
The Nature of this study is descriptive therefor
the data that has been collected is from all the
health information systems are being present
in worldwide in health sector. Including
published and unpublished papers and
government documents and journals are
source of information for this paper. After
Data gathering the next phase is to analyze the
gathered data such that what are the major
factors of health information system which are
essential for clinical and financial
management in health sectors.
For the data collection the study was
conducted in province of Punjab. Punjab
healthcare sector has large network of public
and private healthcare sectors. In addition,
there are thousands of private healthcare
facilities including NGO- and privately-run
clinics.