Catering to your hospital’s needs can be quite challenging. Managing clinical and non-clinical operations comes with different unending issues if you are not using an all-in-one HMIS for healthcare providers in Nigeria yet.

I mean, it could be the size of your hospital, not enough inflow of patients coming in— or maybe the Health Management Information System (HMIS) software you recently purchased is handling only your clinical and completely ignoring your non-clinical (accounting, inventory management, asset management, procurement, HR, etc.). 

It’s possible that your hospital revenue isn’t matching your hospital accounts, or, even worse, that you’re not reconciling your accounts with HMOs. 

Every hospital, firm, business, or organization is vulnerable to the simple but very crucial word, “team” Meaning, as long as you are employed in any job position, be it front desk officer or Chief Medical Director, the hospital’s concerns are also your concerns, so you might as well do your part to guarantee hospital procedures run smoothly and successfully with little to no hitches. 

Why Use All-in-One HMIS for Your Healthcare Facility?

In this blog, we’ll be talking about the need for healthcare providers to adopt a more careful process for HMIS selection and ultimately improve the quality of healthcare provided in their hospitals. 

Real-Time Integration of Clinical & Non-Clinical Data

Due to the complexity of healthcare facilities, there are several departments that are dependent on the various services these facilities offer. 

It could be broad practices like general consultation or specialist practices like IVF, cardiology, ophthalmology, dermatology, etc. With hundreds of personnel carrying out various jobs and functions. See how managing all this can be complicated and exhausting? 

As a result, several hospitals have adopted a digital method that is expected to make things easier and faster as a solution for their healthcare facilities. But here’s the thing, this so-called solution has now created a new problem! 

A relatable example is, say you have a hospital and know fully well the rigours of managing a facility as well as delivering quality healthcare, it can be difficult bridging the gap between saving lives and sustaining a business in Nigeria, not just any business, but a medical facility.

Hence, you adopt Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software however, it turns out that this software only caters for your clinical data management, therefore, when generating management reports at the end of the month, you are caught in a dilemma, and this can cause you to not be able to account for the administrative (non-clinical) aspect of the facility unless you have taken particular note to adopt an all in one HMIS software that can operate seamlessly in real-time.

Reconciliation of accounts with HMOs

This again brings us to the elephant in the room. Early in the year 2022, private hospitals were on the brink of boycotting HMOs due to massive backlogs and unfavourable tariffs which almost led to several disputes and protests between HMOs and the Guild of Medical Doctors. 

Poor remunerations, late accumulation of claims, and many more persist even despite the use of accounting software. But, what if it’s not just accounting software that’s needed? What if integration between EMR software and accounting software still doesn’t cut it? 

In short, the lack of real-time simultaneous operations would still lead to a semi-manual process. Hence, medical facilities are unable to generate claims forms and make a proper claim to their actual funds. 

These medical facilities are left at the mercy of the HMOs to do as they please. Thus, with the seamless integration of an all-in-one real-time HMIS solution, your claims are generated on the go as there are no manual or semi-manual bottlenecks involved in the process.

Ease of Extracting Accurate Reports for Decision Making

One of the major challenges facing all hospitals and even all businesses as a whole is the inability to extract and analyze accurate data effectively from a system. This is particularly true in the medical field, as pointed out by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that Africa’s Healthcare data is highly inaccurate and therefore unreliable for decisions on grants, aid, and support. 

Thus, how much more difficult is it to run a medical facility as a facility owner/manager and effectively make decisions based on limited access to the information? This is where a holistic HMIS report comes in, whereby you can cross-reference data from the micro to the macro level and still make something important out of it. 

How much have we spent on drugs? How many patients did we see last month? What is our total revenue growth thus far? How many patients came into the paediatrics wing? with an all-in-one HMIS solution, you already have these questions answered in a single umbrella waiting for you.

Improved In-house Accountability

Have you ever stopped and wondered to yourself what the administrative staff are doing while you are in the theatre working on that operation? Or do you find yourself asking, “I hope the other doctors are following due practice in my hospital?” 

Well, these are natural questions to be asked by every medical facility owner/executive manager, so you might want to do away with systems that do not give you a real holistic audit of your facility while you are at work, at home, or on a trip during the holidays. 

Conclusion 

It’s a new age, and most people are gradually accepting technology into the healthcare business. From our extensive surveys and research, it has been discovered that a lot of people who purchase standalone EMR systems that do not cater for their clinical and non-clinical needs simultaneously, often lose more (and in some cases spend more) money in the long run and are unable to get the satisfaction of having accurate medical data as highlighted above. 

Hence, we do recommend that you save yourself the stress and invest in an all-in-one Health Management Information System (HMIS) solution suite to cater for your clinical and non-clinical data in real-time.

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