PERSON MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• Person Management System (PMS)

  Management of an individual within a hospital management and information system
• The person can be

  • Patient
  • Healthcare Providers
  • Administrator
  • Students
• Functions of PMS


  1. Registration

  2. Admission (Inpatient)

  3. Transfer

  4. Queue Management (Outpatient)

  5. Scheduling

  6. Discharge
• Registration


  • Patient Master Index (information and identifiers about a patient)
  • Demographic data (sex, age, address, contact, next of kin, occupation, ID, marital status)

  
• Admission (Inpatient)


  • Assigning bed or room to patient
  • Similar to hotel function
  • Depends on eligibility and availability of beds
• Transfer


  • Move from one bed to another
• Queue Management (Outpatient)


  • Schedule patient to clinic/department
  • FIFO (first in first out)
  • Running numbers
• Scheduling


  • Appointment slots to patient
  • Interactive
  • Policy
• Discharge


  • Discharge from ward
  • Close the event/encounter for patient
  • Automatic discharge from outpatient clinic