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A hospital information system (HIS), variously also called clinical information system (CIS) is a comprehensive, integrated information system designed to manage the administrative, financial and clinical aspects of a hospital. This encompasses paper-based information processing as well as data processing machines. The term information system has the following meanings: 1. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ...

As an area of medical informatics the aim of an HIS is to achieve the best possible support of patient care and administration by electronic data processing. Electronic patient chart of a HIS Medical Informatics is the name given to the discipline that exists at the intersection of information technology and medicine. ... Patient care is part of a nurses role in implementing a care plan. ... Electronic data processing(also: Information Technology or IT) can refer to the use of automated methods to process commercial data. ...

It can be composed of one or few software components with specialty specific extensions as well as of a large variety of sub-systems in medical specialties (e.g. Laboratory Information System, Radiology Information System). Software component representations: above the representation used in UML, below the representation commonly used by Microsofts COM objects. ... A laboratory information system (LIS), is a class of software which handles receiving, processing and storing information generated by laboratory processes. ... RIS can refer to: Radiology Information System (RIS), device used to manipulate and distribute patient radiological data imagery. ...

CISs are sometimes separated from HISs in that the former concentrate on patient- and clinical state- related data (electronic patient record) whereas the latter keeps track of administrative issues. The distinction is not always clear and there is contradictory evidence against a consistent use of both terms. An electronic medical record (commonly abbreviated EMR) is a generic term used to describe computer-based patient medical records. ...

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See also

electronic health record, laboratory information system, radiology information system, PACS (medical imaging) Electronic health record (EHR) with image and document links. ... A laboratory information system (LIS), is a class of software which handles receiving, processing and storing information generated by laboratory processes. ... RIS can refer to: Radiology Information System (RIS), device used to manipulate and distribute patient radiological data imagery. ... In medical imaging, picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) are computers or networks dedicated to the storage, retrieval, distribution and presentation of images. ...

External links

• openHIS an open source HIS.
• worldvista an open source HIS.
• care2x an open source HIS.
• hosxp an open source HIS.
• Health management information systems in developing countries - a key issues guide