Modules

'CareIs' has been developed as a patient - centric system. It consists of a range of application modules that support the administrative, billing and clinical information needs of today's modern hospital. Each module can be implemented independently from an integrated system to suit each hospital's needs. The application has been developed using RDBMS technology with the possibility of n - tier deployment.

Modules Available in the System

Patient Registration

• OPD Registration
   
  • Captures patient demographic details & insurance details
  • Assign specific consulting department based on broad symptoms
  • Assign unique registration number to each patient (HIN)
  • Registration label printing (Bar Code Based)
  • Enquiry for searching the patient registration number and other details
  • Facilitates entry of MLC number for accident cases
• Facility to record the revisit details
• IP Admission
   
  • Provision to admit a patient
  • Ward, unit and bed allotment   
  • Provision to print admission slip
  • Allocates inpatient number for each admission

Billing

• Billing of pharmacy items
• Billing for services and OP/IP packages 
• Bill printing
• Cash refund
• Advance collection
• Receipt generation for advances
• Processing nursing care bills of a patient
• Automated room rent calculation
• Keeps track of patient’s current dues or past dues
• Final bill estimation of patient being discharged from the hospital
• Accounting for free treatment and charity
• Automatic discount calculation
• Maintaining company accounts
• Provision to maintain doctor accounting
• Interface with TALLY or other accounting packages
• Maintenance of registers & generation of day-end and periodic report 
• Various statistical analysis report can be generated

Out Patient Department (OPD)

• Maintains queue of patients waiting outside a particular OPD/ consultation room
• Provision to capture the vital signs of patients
• Provision for capturing patient history
• Maintain problem oriented medical record
• Provision to capture clinical data specific to each specialty (e.g. ANC, ENT, Ophthalmology, Cardiology and Physiotherapy)
• Entry and monitoring the treatment plan
• Raising diagnostic orders and viewing the results
• Prescription of drug
• Printing of prescription
• Schedule future appointment

Diagnostics

• Covers all diagnostic units, both sample based and image based 
• Diagnostic orders processing 
• Bar coded sample number generation
• Sample management (collection & labeling)
• Interface with auto analyzers
• Single point entry and authorization for results
• Printing or viewing of results by any authorized user
• Lab reagents & kits inventory management
• Tracking film jackets
• Laboratory register maintenance
• Generation of data for future planning and management.

Pharmacy

• Automatic notification to pharmacy of drugs prescribed by doctors from OPD/IPD and paid by the client
• Keeps track of the patients waiting for the medicines and enables pharmacist to be ready with them before patient arrives at the counter
• Issue of medicines to out patients & in patients
• Provision for counter sales of medicines
• Maintenance of receipts & issue registers
• Keeps track of expiry dates of drugs 
• Daily consumption report showing fast & slow moving items
• Track prescription patterns by doctors
• Notification of stock level of medicine at billing time

Patient Appointment

• Web Based appointment for consultant, diagnostics and package
• Facility to book multiple appointment slots for a patient
• Facility to reschedule or cancel appointment
• Display automatically ‘Next Available Slot’ for appointment
• Print appointment schedule (for specified period) for the consultant
• Print appointment Slip for patients
• Maintenance of doctors schedule (day & time for a period)
• Displays time slots based on the duration defined for providing consultation to new and follow-up patient.

Blood Bank

• Donor registration at hospital premises
• Donor registration at camps
• Physical examination
• Bag number and donor number generation
• Cell/serum grouping and validation
• Serology test entry and test validation
• Component separation and requisition
• Cross match
• Supply of blood to the IP
• Acceptance of unconsumed bags
• Stock maintenance
• Maintains expiry of blood and blood components

In – Patient

• Admitted patients list as per the ward / nursing stations
• Clinical orders entry and checking the status of each order
• Drugs prescription and medicine request entry
• Unused medicines return entry
• Patient progress recording and monitoring
• Drugs administration
• Intake and output recording
• Bed transfer intimations
• Patient discharge intimations
• Discharge summary preparation
• Nursing sub-store maintenance

Operation Theater

• Maintenance of surgeon’s O.T. schedule
• Finalizing the confirmed surgery schedules based on the availability of OT, surgeon, anesthetist and special equipment required 
• Printing of surgery schedule for a surgeon and for an operation theatre
• Clinical orders entry, surgical consumables / disposables and medicine request entry
• Recording of pre & post surgery details
• O.T. and anesthesia registers 
• Preparation of OT list

CSSD & Equipment Maintenance

• CSSD

• Provision to make pack for the sterilization items
• Provision for raising requisition for the sterilization items
• Dispensing of the sterilization items
• Provision to maintain the history of the distribution of the sterilized items
• Reports on the CSSR package available
  
   
• Equipment Maintenance 

• Provision to lodge complaints
• Provision to record the maintenance details
• Provision to raise indents
• Generation of the maintenance register

Inventory Management

• Complete scientific material management and inventory control right from demand estimation to issue for both medical and non-medical stores.
• Purchase management
• Stock management
• GRN processing
• Issue of item requested by department/ sub departments
• Consumption analysis & dynamic reorder level
• Disposal of expired drugs
• Generation of various statistical reports

Medical Records

• Monthly census report
• ICD based report
• Period wise Abstract report
   
  • Admission
  • Operations done
  • Discharges
  • Death
  • Death within 48 Hours
• Period wise patient registration details
   
  • Age wise
  • Department wise
• Issue of birth and death certificates
• Hospital status
• Casualty report
• Statistical reports like bed occupancy ratio (BOR), bed turnover rate etc.
• Preparation of discharge summary
• Maintenance of death record

System Administration

• This module enables control of the system administrator on the functioning of the application
• It helps the administrator to decide upon
   
  • The access rights of the users,
  • There operational arena within the application
  • The basic setup needed to make the S/W work according to hospital policies.
• It also deals with the maintenance of system parameters

Patient Information System

• Patient enquiry
• Appointment enquiry - consultation, investigation and package 
• OPD roster enquiry
• Inpatient enquiry
• Bed status enquiry
• Investigation enquiry
• Investigation report enquiry
• Tariff enquiry

Management Information System

Generates reports and analysis of the following:

• Trends in hospital OPD and IPD attendances
• Disease wise statistics
• Information about stores management
• Admission and discharge statistics
• Hospital statistics including bed occupancy ratio (BOR) etc
• Operation statistics
• Investigation statistics
• Death case and causes
• Personnel related information
• Financial information including costing, statistics, patient-wise, test-wise, bed-wise etc.