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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) was established in 1961 as the Hospital Management Systems Society (HMSS) by Edward J. Gerner and Harold E. Smalley. The first national convention was held in Baltimore in 1962, and the organization moved its headquarters to Chicago in 1964.
A hospital information system (HIS) is an element of health informatics that focuses mainly on the administrational needs of hospitals.In many implementations, a HIS is a comprehensive, integrated information system designed to manage all the aspects of a hospital's operation, such as medical, administrative, financial, and legal issues and the corresponding processing of services.
Health information management's standards history is dated back to the introduction of the American Health Information Management Association, founded in 1928 "when the American College of Surgeons established the Association of Record Librarians of North America (ARLNA) to 'elevate the standards of clinical records in hospitals and other medical institutions.'" [3]
HRHIS is a human resource for health information system for management of human resources for health developed by University of Dar es Salaam college of information and communication technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, for Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Tanzania) and funded by the Japan International Cooperation ...
[1] [2] Cashless societies have existed from the time when human society came into existence, based on barter and other methods of exchange, and cashless transactions have also become possible in modern times using credit cards, debit cards, mobile payments, and digital currencies such as bitcoin.
The generic model used in the United States is the chronic care model, which holds that health care does not only involve change in the patient and that high-quality disease care counts the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems as important elements in ...
Hospital OS is a research and development project for a hospital management software to support small hospitals. It is supported by the Thailand Research Fund and is free software released under the GNU GPL. Hospital OS is implemented in 95 small rural hospitals and 402 health centres serving at least 5 million patients. [1]
Computer-aided facility management (CAFM) is the support of facility management by information technology. [1] The supply of information about the facilities is the center of attention. The tools of the CAFM are called CAFM software, CAFM applications or CAFM systems.