Integrated Hospital Information System  Medico//s

The computerization of health organizations requires the interconnection of heterogeneous departments for optimization of services and safe management of medical data. This need is satisfied by medico//s , which is the best comprehensive solution to computer science and hospital work productively in our country. Medico//s is a product that incorporates the lengthy experience of the manufacturing company Siemens Medical Solutions, a global leader in implementing clinical information systems with hundreds of installations worldwide. Datamed, closely monitoring the developments in the field of Medical Informatics, is the exclusive distributor of products of Siemens Medical Solutions in Greece and Cyprus, offering a completely customised at Greek needs, at all levels, solution.

Medico//s is fully attuned to the needs and peculiarities of the Greek hospital with irrefutable proof that what has been implemented and productively operates in Greece, at public universities, private and military hospitals, pension funds and specialized hospitals (Onassis Heart Center) fully satisfies higher managerial and medical requirements.

International Cooperation - Strategic investment

Medico / / s has all the characteristics necessary for the proper and efficient operation of a Hospital Information System. These characteristics are directly related to the specific requirements of health organizations regarding the availability of information systems, security of sensitive medical data and interface with third party systems.

Secure - Reliable

The security system of medico//s is in full compliance with the strict laws of European countries and the U.S., which has been implemented, but the stringent EU directives on ensuring medical confidentiality, whereas, it supports productively, pricing of medical procedures by DRG.

The safety regulations specify, in detail, the responsibilities of each user and his access to data. In addition, safeguards guaranteeing the quality of critical medical data listed therein and prevent any malicious use, while minimizing the possibility of human error in warning or ban messages. The safety standards of medico / / s identify to the workflow needs of hospitals and integrated functions such as simple order entry, results or appointments and subsequent approval - released by the responsible user. After their release, there can be no change, just the reading of the content.

The security system is characterized by great flexibility and is easily adaptable to specific needs. Its ability to accurately authorize any user is due to its functional and technically advanced structure. More specifically, each user is assigned a unique ID and password. Each user is introduced to a group of users, which has similar functions (e.g. nursing personnel, outpatient secretary). Then each team is assigned specific functions, rights for which are encoded in the basic system files.

The structure, nomenclature and content of files encoded Rights (entry points), is the result of accumulated experience and expertise from all the facilities of medico//s in the world.

In addition, specific procedures ensure full recording timestamp (user ID, date and time, action) for all entries and changes to a special control file (audit trail), in order to complete traceability of critical operations.
 

Furthermore, medico//s insures, through the use of technology, very high availability (> 99.9%) and minimum response time to user commands.

Pioneering - Contemporary

The system supports advanced technology, follows international encodings (ICD-9/10, ATC, ICPM, ICPC-2, etc.) and has an open architecture, so that it materialises viable links  with the use of modern protocols of communication (HL7, DICOM, Custom Protocols etc).

The coded files of medico//s support innately the internationally recognized systems of coding, while they have the possibility of adaptation to new coding, maintaining intact the previous. More specifically, it abides to multiple coding systems, giving each user a choice of the system that serves him to record the data.

To achieve sustainable and efficient connections, it is imperative that protocols and procedures which have been tested and established by international practice. medico//s  has a full declaration of conformity (Conformance Statement) of the manufacturing company with Protocol HL7. It is known, at least to those who follow developments in the field of medical informatics that the Protocol HL7 is the internationally accepted standard of medical information interconnection systems.

Datamed, based on the experience and expertise of its executives, has materialised interconnections with various Laboratory (LIS) and Management (ERP) sub systems, in all of its installations.  Among these subsystems are Datamed products, TDLab / / plus (LIS), and ATLANTIS Health (ERP).

In the case of remote users, medico//s is capable of operating in a Web environment, with the flexibility and ergonomics, of a Web Browser.

Patient

A key feature of medico//s is that it is a patient information system so that each patient is treated as a long-term partner in the process of providing health services. The entity of the patient is the central entity and using a master password you gain access to all the other components, depending on the rights of each user. The system supports multiple compliance patient codes (national identification number, social security number, etc other than the main one. Furthermore, one of the key concepts of the system is the concept of the incident (episode) for the EMR. Through this concept, for each patient visit or contact with the hospital, there is a unique incident number which refers to the registry of the patient. The significance of the incident permits observation, in a cohesive way of all patient information, medical and financial, whether internal (hospital) or outpatient (visiting external or evening clinics).

Key Subsystems

The functions of medico//s is strictly divided into applications that are operating around the interconnected subsystems "Patient Management" and "Medical Subsystem. The main applications are allocated as follows:

Patient Management

• • Admittance Office

• • Outpatients Appointments

• • Patient Accounting

• • Pharmacy

• • Dietetic Department

Medical Sub System

• • Diagnoses

• • Orders - Order Entry

• • Medical Protocols

• • Medical Findings

• • Emergency

Modular Structure

The modular structure of medico//s results in multiple technical and functional benefits. An important feature is the feasibility of certain official subsystems, depending on the operational needs of each installation. Furthermore, it is absolutely possible for partial implementation of individual applications where operational requirements demand it.

Additional Modules

The Hospital Information System medico//s, aside from the basic subsystems has a range of additional modules which, because of its modular structure, can easily be integrated into the core of the system. More specifically, these subsystems are:

• • Management Subsystem for surgery and anaesthesiology departments

• • Subsystem for monitoring vital statistics of patients (ICU, PMR, etc.)

• • Radiology department management subsystem (RIS)

• • Subsystem archiving documents and images

• • Subsystem organizing nursing and medical staff

• • Medical Record Management System

• • Subsystem documentation nursing services

• • Subsystem management decision support (data warehousing)