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Details of Medic Aid

( Hospital and Clinic Management Software)

Introduction
Modules available and fully functional
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Introduction

Hospitals have to be focused around patient care. So shouldn't your hospital IT usage be also focused around that. Sadly, most hospitals limit IT usage to administrative purposes. And to feed this demand, most vendors will provide a package which is little better than an accountancy and inventory package and label the same as an HIS (Hospital Information System).

Medicaid is a database application made for the explicit purpose of storing and retrieving patients' as well related Hospital data. It is a totally GUI based front end application made for the MS Windows /NT platform but can also work with some flavors of UNIX (Sun Solaris) as well as Mac. It utilizes an RDBMS in the back-end which has to run simultaneously with the application to store and retrieve the data.

The concept and ideology behind it is that Billings, Accounts and Inventory are integrated with

  • Better Patient Record Keeping
    • Automatic form and report creation
    • Avoid drudgery of repetitive typing
  • Eliminate Writing and problems of poor handwriting
  • More Efficiency
    • Eliminates paperwork and the need for getting a range of letterheads and stationery
    • Speedy analysis of data
    • All actions integrated across multiple locations
    • Inbuilt user level checks

Medicaid provides not only integration of all patient related data but also provides the entire stream for cross checking and vouchsafing the procedures a patient has gone through. This means that bills sent for insurance claims have the stamp of genuineness. It can also be integrated to provide data transfer directly to the server of TPAs.

The Multiple user version of this application (over a Client Server Network)is provided along with a license of SQL Anywhere database - the RDBMS for which Medic Aid is optimized for. But it can be optimized for connection to the users' own database like SQL Server or Oracle. Sybase SQL Studio is compatible with all versions of Windows and NT as well as Linux.
In Medic Aid, the data is stored through easy to use, aesthetic forms with the purpose that the user will never need to type any information more than once even if for a totally different reason. All the patient's data needs to be fed in only once on his arrival. He /she is provided with an automatically generated Registration Number. Medic Aid will use this number to access and (if not yet made) create different records like Operation Notes, Admission, prescription and Bills etc.
This system -even while being made for use for administrators - has been made with close supervision of doctors who have tried to replace their activities through all their record keeping and writing activities through the computer. An attempt has been made to provide a system which emulates a hospital and an individual doctor's paper work through the computer so that it is

    • Simple to use
    • Change over is painless.
    • It is faster than manual record keeping
    • More efficient
In a real time test, it was found that while keeping a permanent record of all the details of the patient, it could provide a prescription as well as fill in the investigation forms and reports of any patient faster than manually writing just one medium sized prescription along with the name age sex etc.

Modules available and fully functional

  • Healthcare
    • Reception
    • 7 different types of bills
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    • Physicians' Out patients
    • Specialty Modules for
      • Ante natal care (Obstretics)
      • Pediatrics
      • Plastic Surgery
      • Physiotherapy
    • Appointments
    • Ward Patients - Admission, Discharge and transfer
    • Ward case sheet record
    • Routine Medical Checkup report
    • Operation Theater Booking
    • Operation notes and billing
    • Anaesthesia notes
    • Admissions - Routine and emergency
    • Casualty
    • Pharmacy
    • Central Drug and Stores
    • Laboratory
    • Radiology
    • Endoscopy and Sonar systems
    • Complete tracking of Medical records
Peripheral systems
  • Clinical Accounting
  • Receipts - pending and recieved
  • Payments - due and Paid
  • General ledger
  • Address Book
The last is common for all personnel including Doctors, referring doctors, On call specialists, staff and works as the master list to access names like treating physician, consultant on call, staff on duty etc.
More modules based on actual user requirements can be added to the database at a very short notice. These include :-
Medical Personnel and payroll system, Nursing care details
  • General Computing Needs

    These are not provided in any specific form by this software but training can be provided to work on applications like MS Word and Excel. Use of import/export facility by Medic Aid allows intermingling and reuse of available data for the hospital in these general apps as well as specific accounting packages

    General Information

    Operating System (Servers) Linux,(Most flavors), Windows NT or 2000, 2003 Server - Choice of server will be determined by backend to use.

    For Workstations Windows 98, Me, XP or Vista

     A 1500 bed hospital would require approx. 50 workstations Severs

    Printers Deskjet or Laser one at least for every place needing a report, + 1 backup for every 8-10

    Once the hardware is in place, the software can be installed. Software is available as auto installable CD complete with the database (if Sybase SQL Anywhere is to be used)

    Once installed master lists will have to be created like names of doctors and staff (address book), charges for procedures, drugs available in the Pharmacy, store locations etc. Once these are entered the full functionality like single keystroke access and automated billing and logs etc will be apparent. Different modules for the exact locations have to be implemented on site.

    Most of the modules have been designed as per specifications given by the client.

    The core system will be up and running within one month but addition of new modules, debugging of the same, fine tuning and training of regular staff will take around 4 - 6 months.

    Actual comments of software experts and doctors

    • · One of the best (Adjudged by Doctors /users)
    • · Requires far less keystrokes for the same job as compared to others ( Software and Hardware seller)
    • · Seems to have been made by some one who knows and understands medical needs (Medical Consultant)
    • · There seems to be very extensive hard work gone into it, even I would baulk at the daunting task its creation seems to require (Software expert /System analyst)
    • - Suited for use along with MediClaim (Insurance Consultant)