Analyze ERP application system for hospital information applicable value

While ERP is designed for enterprise management software, but for the hospital's finance, human resources, logistics, asset management, there is still a suitable value.

Currently, the traditional sense of HIS software, particularly the current domestic HIS software does not meet the high demands of hospitals, and overseas mature HIS software exist localization, customer of significant cost and risk in the short term cannot be used.

So, some hospitals begin exploring a new path, namely, the use of other industry proven software management in the same or similar business, resulting in hospital, ERP software entered the hospital

Use of ERP management concept

HIS is a two aspects of the service software, on the one hand, meet the medical needs, on the one hand, meet the management needs, system of almost every business module will relate to both aspects.

HIS is a database as the core, medical, management and other business service components as the main line, and ensure the normal operation of the medical processes at the same time meet the hospital personnel, financial, and material of the efficient operation of the system.

At the same time, the ERP from functional description looks good hospital finance, human resources, logistics, asset management, such as more suitable for the management of the twin towers.

At present, the domestic many clients in the technology, as well as the strength of a mature ERP company, does not exist in the localization issues. These are the ERP and the combination of the medical industry.

However, many people will ask, this is a feasible way?

From HIS name, and an ERP is designed for hospitals, one is for the enterprise.

The hospital also is the enterprise, but there are distinct from the General Hospital of characteristics, general corporate focus on the management of financial, logistics, human resources, to promote rational allocation of resources, to maximize the ability to create social wealth, hospitals in addition to the management of financial, logistics, human resources, general resources, there are more important and central resources: "the people". ERP or tube, but HIS manager's depth and angle, the human body temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, orders, electronic medical records, etc., there is no corresponding ERP management module.

A separate analysis of some modules, such as finance, many people think that financial system most suitable for ERP management, but most of the financial transactions of the account from the individual with health-related costs, these costs have points in complex medical procedures.

Such as inpatient treatment in various medical expenses when generating orders, production orders?, sampling, inspection, produce results, these points are discharged from the settlement. Universal accounting software management module is very difficult. Now compare the successful practices in General is the only management has nothing to do with the medical process as part of the cost of the patients are dispersed in outpatient management fees and ADT, system, and then do the interface and financial systems.

For logistics management also has the same problem, hospital materials management, medication management, asset management, not only on the articles deal with the deposit of management and, more importantly, of the management of medical properties, such as drug dosage of medical law, incompatibility, interaction, warning levels, multiple name management, reuse of medical supplies disinfection, aseptic management, etc.

Item module display results

Beijing a famous hospital in this area have some experience.

Hospital management system of "drugs" beginning in 2006, and 2008::: spent 1 year, using a set of well-known ERP software materials management module, the application scope mainly pharmaceuticals logistics management, drugs for clinical system support. With the clinical systems for seamless connectivity.

The blueprint for the design phase of the system, we found materials management software and drug management processes are quite different, primarily in three areas, on the one hand, the business of medicines systems, require a window handle business time is short, such as outpatient prescription drugs, 6 the dispensing window every day to process more than prescription and most concentrated in the morning of 2 hours, the system's efficiency, process optimization and interface friendliness have raised very high requirements.

On the other hand, the ERP system is missing the drug more name management, drug interactions, incompatibility, usage, and other drugs, medical support, causing the module to develop increased.

The third aspect is the interface complex, drug system is the foundation of the entire system of hospitals, other modules related to place many drugs, prescription, medical dictionary, the system needed drugs for drug Directory support, few drugs deal with the library module nested in the middle of the process, such as health care, outpatient prescription of cargo from storage, Ward requests for medicaments single out of the library, and so on.

"Drug management system" on the line, after several months of an adjustment period, hospital in drug circulation management level has been greatly improved, reducing wastage of drugs, medicines lot number of the whole process management and optimize effective management, the basic realization of the patients of tracking with advanced management idea of ERP allows the amount of drug profits to the Treasury drastically reduced.

As the system further stability, some new technologies are applied, such as the use of RFID technology management valuable high-risk drugs.

Through this project, we recognize that both ERP and hospitals can learn something from each other.

For hospitals, should rely on ERP enterprise resources advanced management reform hospital business model, such as large logistics, zero inventory, etc.

While ERP should start again from the model design, patient-centered, to manage the main line of systems, adapted to the particularities of the medical service.

Maybe in the near future, the integration of ERP and HIS will for the medical industry brings unexpected results. But for now, ERP into the hospital should select a practical application, attention to detail, so as to maximize the advantage of reflecting the ERP.