Abstract
Questionnaire surveys were sent to hospital managers, designed to shape the policy
for future hospital information systems in Japan. The answers show that many hospitals
use dedicated management systems, especially for patient registration and accounting,
and personnel, food control, pharmacy and financial departments. In many hospitals,
order-entry systems for laboratory tests and prescriptions are well developed. Half
of the hospitals have patient databases used for inquiries of basic patient information,
history of outpatient care and hospital care. The most obvious benefit is the reduction
of office work, due to effective hospital information system. Many hospital managers
want to use the following sub systems in the future for automatic payment, waiting
time display, patient records search, automatic prescription verification, drug side-effect
monitoring, and graphical display of patient record data.
Keywords
Hospital Information System - Questionnaire Survey - Evaluation
