Dear Saswata,
On 12/22/06, Saswata Banerjee & Associates <scrapo at saswatabanerjee dot com> wrote:
Dinesh Shah wrote: There are already software like care 2x which can take care of most hospital management tasks.
I have gone through the site and demo and it looks interesting. May be tomorrow I will show them the demo site if they have Net access.
However, they do not have things like payroll and accounting. These will need to be added or linked from other software.
The other / existing apps can be integrated within the same interface.
In fact, we are already working on deploying Care 2x for hospitals and nursing homes. Contact me offline if you think we can work together.
This is indeed great. The hospital where I will consulting will be completely non-gratis.
The problem is not so much on the software as is the structure of the hospitals. Most of them will not have the people or resources to use the software.
I think this was the general feeling in my talking to this IT person. Their biggest concern is always the user acceptance.
More than the software, you need consulting firms like us who can take them through a Process Re-engineering so that they can acutally make proper use of the software. Most of the people we spoke to in the industry indicated the same problem. The problem is going to be in getting people to use the software.
This is where the training and processes comes in picture. I will see if they have budget to higher the consultant(s).
On the other hand, most of the hospitals have pathetic information and documentation system. With exception of places like the BARC hostpital, most of them actually depend on the patient bringing the previous prescriptions and reports back to the doctor when they come. This practice has got to change as the courts and insurance companies have started to rap the hospitals and take them to task on absence of documents which are needed to defend themselves against alegation of misconduct / mistreatement.
Most charitable hospitals are managed by volunteers and run by full time employees. They may or may not know about compliance in many cases.
This is therefore the correct time for hospitals to make the changes.
Yes and we must help them move into the FOSS world.
Regards Saswata
Thx for your pointer and feedback. I will bother you again if I need further inputs. With regards,