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Healthcare has the most potential for reaping the benefits
of Internet Revolution . Diverse objectives drive hospital
management. Highly specialized and widely dispersed experts
provide core service to hospitals.Highly procedure oriented
health care insurance dictate the service processes. Making
the best of these challenges is the opportunity in the hands
of technology architects. A patient - oriented, enterprise
focused IT dirven simplified procedure is very much a reality
and it is taking place already.
FIS eB framework with its device centric approach facilitates
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Increase
in number of patients per expert |
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Reduction
in service costs to consumers |
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Streamlining
peripheral processes |
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Simplifying
billing and claim settlement |
Integrating hospital devices
Take, for example, the variety of devices that occupy the
hospital floors. There are as many protocols as the number
of equipment vendors. Even as the most vendors are moving
over DICOM, the hospitals would find it hard to upgrade them
with the new generation equipments without investing heavily.
FIS Technology Solutions offer a workaround to combine equipments
of different protocols in a common platform. The devices get
connected as part of the net in such a way that they can monitor
the patients' health and get their own health if they can
be diagnosed remotely. Apart from facilitating automatic diagnostics
and raising alert in the case of non-performance or mal-performance
of devices, the whole service processes can be tracked and
recorded.
Higher utilization of expert time
Thus the expert's view of vital signs of patients under their
control with the comfort of remaining at his normal workplace.
They deliver an instant message to his peers for immediately
needed second opinion or consult fellow professional from
other disciplines. They instantly follow the best possible
procedure. Simultaneously the whole action gets documented
automatically, meeting legal requirement, which helps the
experts to protect their interests. All these can happen under
perfectly secured conditions of protecting the patients' privacy
duly complying with the provisions of HIPA. Naturally this
can lead to better utilization of highly valuable and scarce
expert time.
Improving the Hospital Management Process
The device centric approach eases the hospital managements
of the complexities involved in keeping track of the hospital
assets, scheduling the services in tune with the assigned
priorities and managing the availability of the equipments.
The billing processes in the hospitals get simplified as
FIS Technology can accommodate different billing policies
depending upon the scheme under which the patient is treated
and can provide user-friendly policy updating.
Claim Settlements
As FIS Technology is a completely web based solution, all
the entities in the healthcare industry from experts, individual
consultants, laboratories, clinics, hospitals can work under
a portal making claims settlement less laborious.
Reduction in time spent on hospital bed
The time spent in the hospital beds is not only expensive
but also traumatic for the patients. FIS Technology, with
its solutions aiming better utilization of hospital assets,
can help hospitals to reduce the time spent on the bed to
the bare minimum and still avoid waiting time for admissions
of patients.
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