Keeping health records on paper is not an option anymore. Not only it is a huge time waster for all the medical staff involved, it also has limited use is improving the healthcare services being provided.

Health records should be kept on an IT System that allows for distribution of the information to research and decision making centres in a reliable and efficient manner. Health Records should be the basis of decision making within the Health Care establishment. Whether to decide which medicine works best or to come up with better procedures, the data that is collected over time can be put to good use if it exists on a digital platform.

The future of Health Care, or rather if we want health care to make huge progress, we have to start sharing health records between hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, research centres etc; not the personal information of course but the anonymous records that can provide the basis for research and decision making across continents.

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A particular interpretation of Parkinson’s Law states that: Demand rises to meet supply. This is true in many scenarios and one such scenario is the world of IT and information systems.

Many times information system providers are presented with a set of functional requirements that the client or his consultant determine as “all that the client requires”. Many times this is close to the truth except for the element of time. What is enough for today, may not be enough for tomorrow. A system defined with today’s requirements in mind is not future proof. Any consultant/analyst worth his salt would try to anticipate the functional requirements of a couple of years ahead. However the future is very hard to anticipate.

As a rule of thumb, parkinson’s law should be considered when defining the requirements of an Information System especially when the investment is going to be sizeable and for the longer term. Demand for features will rise to meet the supply of features. It’s better and more cost effective to err on the “I’ll take that” rather than on the “I’ll skip that”. If the feature is good and you can afford it, take it. Today or tomorrow the organisation will surely scale up to use the additional features if they are there. While if you don’t take it right from the start, and then a couple of years down the line, you end up needing it; it’s probable that either you won’t get it or if you get it the cost of implementing it disjointly would be higher that if you had ordered it right from the start.

But then it all depends on the software! When choosing an Information System provider always balance the functional requirements you’re getting today together with the ability to request additional features, at affordable prices, tomorrow.

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Data Entry and Data Management costs.

Data Entry

Integrated systems lower the data entry costs and increase the realtimeliness of data. When data is entered into one application, it can be immidiately available to another application through integration. A typical example from is when a new customer shows up at the bank: if the bank’s systems are integrated, the customer’s details can be entered and verified once and then they can be re-utilised on every contract or loan that the same customer needs, rather then having to enter, verify and sign the same details over and over again, lengthening the process ten-fold.

Real Time Data

Realtimeliness is also a considerable benefit that is derived from a properly integrated system. As soon as data is entered or checked in one department, it is available to all other departments, which in many cases results in streamlined business processes, lower costs and happier customers.

“One Touch”

Redundant data is a disadvantage of seperate systems. Let’s consider an invoicing system that is seperate from an accounting system. One would have to keep a copy of the customer information in each of the systems, editing and updating both on every change. Properly integrated systems will keep a single repository of customer information to supply all software functions; point of sale, accounts, customer care, billing, and so on. “One touch” is a footy term that can be easily applied to data management. Data should be managed with “one touch” mentality. Each time data is updated that update should be verified at source and then used throughout for maximum efficiency and lowest cost.

Business Processes and related costs.

Tuning Business Processes

Business processes normaly involve additional cost to every sale. Improving the efficiency of the business processes means lowering costs and delivering better value. Most businesses are currently tied to the functionality provided to them by the various software packages that they own with regards to business processes. Proper integration of software applications empower such businesses with the ability to orchestrate the various software and business process together.

Adaptability

Integration also lowers the cost of changing the software tools to adapt to new business processes as required from time to time in order to improve the efficiency of the various sections of the business.

This list is by no means an exhaustive list of cost management that can be obtained through properly integrated software, but it is enough to indicate such potential. At Lornit we design software with integration in mind. Our software platform delivers a number of software applications or sets of functionality that are fully integrated by design. Our platform enables us to deliver updates and changes rapidly to meet our client’s requirements in terms of business process re-engineering to ensure our clients enjoy competitive advantage.

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