CHOOSING THE BEST IT SOLUTION FOR HEALTH

MBA ( III rd Semester)

Health Management

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 Introduction
 Personalized Healthcare
 Lifetime treatment
 Pre symptomatic treatment
 Diagnosis
 Patient centric healthcare
 High technology
 Less investment on labour

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 TODAY IT IN HEALTHCARE

 Revenue Management
HR, Finance, Admin, Supply
chain Management
 ERP (Enterprise Resource
Planning)
 Clinical Information System(CIS)
(PACS,RIS,EPMR,WARD
Management)

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 TODAY IT IN HEALTHCARE

 No Long term plan

 Is it enough plan for physician?
 What are the criteria for
evaluation?
 Is it Up gradable?
 Lack of Integration
 scalability

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 Evaluating Digital MIS

 Functionality
 Flexibility
 Best practices / processes
 People training
 Security and privacy

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 Choosing right Hardware

 Number of users
 Size of Images
 Quantity of data
 Transaction of volume
 Memory size
 Storage requirement
 Plan Roadmap- at least for 10
years
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 Choosing right Digital MIS

 ‘Small step for big goal’

 Should Compatible for Integrating
regional healthcare network
system
 PHI networking system
 Images from equipment
 Integrating platform for different
kind of software

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 How to Choose Right MIS
 Establish need
 Identify the Department and
organization need
 Select HIS/MIS team
 Write RFP ( Requirement for
Proposal)
 Focus on total cost of ownership,
not initial cost

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 How to Choose Right HIS
 Feasibility
 Evaluate multiple vendors
 Feed back from exiting users
 Build a small core IT Team
 Anticipating the future
 Technology rules, but don’t let it
rules you
 Know about needs and end results
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 How to Evaluate vendor?

 Functionalities of the system

 Features of the System
 Technology on which the system is
based on.
 Consider level of support
 Automatic upgrades
 Training – level of training

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 How to Evaluate vendor?

 Think Implementation
 Scalability and modularity
 Vendor stability
 Cost
 Quality focus
 Provided system or Integrated
solution?

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 How to Evaluate vendor?

 Once you choose vendor, they are

your partner
 Choose solution not a product
 Do not expect world from your
application
 Choose solution which is built in
the latest technologies( span is 5-7
yrs)

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