CHRIS Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital has launched a new digital system to improve patients’ care experience.
The system looks to make a positive impact by reducing waiting time in the hospital and reducing challenges of missing files and information.
Patients can be referred easily to another health facility with a referral letter and they can ensure the patient’s information won’t be missing, and that there are no duplicates of procedures and information.
The Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) is currently in the process of rolling out a single integrated Health Information System (HIS) across all hospitals and community health centres in Gauteng.
Nkosiyethu Mazibuko, the hospital’s spokesman, said the HIS implementation team is currently on site and will remain on site for the next three weeks supporting the facility until the system stabilises.
“This is a system that will be replacing Medicom and PAAB (Patient Administration and Billing System). The HIS seeks to do the following: Facilitate the attainment of the integrated healthcare requirements, provide GDoH with an enterprise health information system platform that integrates our core business requirements and ensure the adoption of common standards, processes and flexibility across the GDoH landscape,” said Mazibuko.
Mazibuko said the HIS will integrate to most of their existing systems.
“HIS implementation follows a phased approach to minimise the impact on service delivery, with Patient Administration and Patient Finance & Billing being in the first phase of the implementation and the clinical module being in the second phase. HIS has gone live with Patient Administration and Patient Finance & Billing at 13 hospitals and 20 community health centres,” he said.
Mazibuko said that the hospital is kindly asking for patients to be patient and supportive during this exciting time of change at the hospital.
