Medical office can't work effectively without software
Today any medical office or hospital cannot adequately work if proper software solution is not implemented in the daily hospital task workflow. Jobs at patient treatment necessitate medical personnel to do their best via special hospital management solutions. Doctors and their assistants have no chance for a mistake as they deal with patients' lives. Accuracy, timeliness and efficiency are critical factors in determining if a doctor's task and schedule will keep up with a proper patient's medication and treatment.
That software provides the following key features:
- Keeping patient database. It allows to create a database where doctors can register new patients and assign appropriate tasks to the medical assistants. The database is shared, and each user can access the patient list.
- Health recording and medical history sheet keeping. Electronic health records and medical history sheet maintenance is provided by hospital management software . Such functionality allows to keep electronic records of patient medication lists and assigned therapy and conduct analysis of patient medical treatment.
- Hospital schedule . By using specialized software , doctors and medical staff can create schedules for outpatient visits, arrange consultations with patients and meeting with medical assistants, set reminders to prioritized tasks, etc.
- Medical staff workflow management. That software provides workflow management tool allowing to manage tasks and activities of the medical staff members.
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An example of hospital management software based on task management
A perfect example that demonstrates how task management approach can be used to manage hospitals and medial offices is VIP Task Manager. It is an integrated client-server software system working around a common database. The application can be used across medical offices and institutions through the computing technologies, including LAN and Internet. The program has an intuitive, user-friendly interface, and the medical staff can quickly and easily learn how to create a task and draw up a schedule .
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VIP Task Manager is a multipurpose hospital management application as it can be used both for personal hospital task management and collaborative hospital task management. A brief description is shown below: |
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Personal todo management program . Doctors can use the software to schedule consultations and appointments with patients, add patient registration numbers, set task reminders, attach recipes, medical history sheet and medication list to each task related to a patient, etc. VIP Task Manager can be used as a personal to-do list management application with possibility to create individual tasks and draw up schedules .
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Read Collaborative management system . As VIP Task Manager is a client/server hospital management system , the medical office can use it for collaboration. In this collaborative program the common database file will be stored on a remote server (or a regular PC, as there are no special hardware requirements), and each medical staff member (a doctor, a medical assistant, a nurse, etc.) can connect it to get a list of tasks. For example, a doctor who has several assistants in his service can assign tasks to the assistants and track the tasks statuses per minute/hour/day. In the job management system medical staff members can communicate each other, do their tasks and notify doctors about completed tasks and schedules.
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