BUMRUNGRAD’S HOSPITAL 2000 INFORMATION
SYSTEM
By:SUNIL KUMAR SINGH(10BSP0210)SAURAV SENGUPTA (10BSP0194)SUMIT KUHAR (10BSP0208)SUMEET DAS (10BSP0956)
Clients/ patients information. Record keeping. Billings. Inventory management. Suppliers details and accounts. Doctors’ details. Medical transcription. Shift allocation of staffs. Give patients better flexibility and ease Etc.,
WHY DO HOSPITALS NEED IS?
Established in Sep 1980, jointly by Bangkok bank and Sophonpanich family.
In 1989, went public to raise funds. From 1991 to 2000, it became the best
privately managed hospital in Thailand. Jan 1997, changed location to the center of
the city with increased capacity and improved facilities.
Jul 1997, faced tough situation due to southeast Asian currency crisis.
ABOUT BUMRUNGRAD:
Mar 1997, certified with ISO 9002 quality
certification.
1999, ISO certified it as a “Comprehensive
Tertiary Acute Medical Centre” first of its
kind.
1997, launched its website
www.bumrungrad.com.
ABOUT BUMRUNGRAD contd.:
Enhance service quality. Existing systems posed problems followed by
high maintenance cost. To deliver information and directing
business. Retaining the best doctors was anotherr
major challenge. Enable them to make right decisions at the
right time. Better connectivity with customers.
Why did they need a change:
From a brick n mortar company to brick n click company. Choosing GCS.
Adopting Hospital 2000 IS. Training 1200 staffs and 200 doctors on the
system was not an easy take. Data conversion:
1. extraction of data from old systems filtering them and feeding it to newly implemented one.
2. conversion of data from Thai language to English.
Tough times doesn’t last but tough people do:
3. Major challenge was with the DMS of FileNet corporation. 4. Risk of failure of the new systems when the old systems were made to switch off. But eventually became successful.
Training.
Contd.
Personal computers with standardized configuration.
Power Vault 650F Fiber channel storage system.
Storage system ran on MS SQL platform. Formed database for Hospital 2000 IS.
Uniform configuration. Unique operating system. Systems connected to the Internet through
leased lines through satellite connection.
Hardware and Software Expansion:
Three tier system architecture.
Data warehousing and online analytical
Processing.
Network architecture:
Enabled uniform flow of information.
Servers and clients used TCP/IP protocol.
Facilitated increasing no. of clients.
Reduced expenditure.
Hardware and Software Expansion contd.:
In 2007 New operating system: A unique combination of Microsoft 2005 server and SQL server 2005.
Implementation of Amalga PACS (Picture Archive Communication System). Digital image storage and real time processing. Records and reports were available online for real
time accessing. Elimination of cost of storage and maintenance. Multilingual capabilities system. Significant revenue margin with respect to
competitors.
Renaissance in system design:
Patient Info Illustration
Increased efficiency of operations. Centralized data storage and retrieval. Type of prescription was not a hurdle
anymore. Any doctor could attend any patient, due to
easy availability of records. Far ahead of competitors.
BENEFITS:
QUERIES
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