Open Source in Healthcare: HUSM 10 Years of Innovative Effort
A presentation from Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia about how they build their hospital solutions using open source tools. Presented by Mr Yusdirman Bin Yusoff.
43 clinics • 10 labs supported by ISU • About 1,500 outpatients daily with total of more than 2 Million • About RM 80 millions spent on medicine annually
patient data. • Daily patient encounter about 1,400 - 1,600. • Out Patient encounter recorded up to 3,143,618 tuples. • In Patient encounter recorded up to 311,605 tuples. • Patient appointment list out 2,066,462 tuples. • These numbers are increasing as we speak.
Director, Dato' Dr. Zaidon Kamari • Started with 4 IT personnel initializing the Total Hospital Information System effort at year 2000 lead by en Azuddin Ab Rahman. • Now consist of 7 Analysts and 15 Programmers focusing all effort on application development. • Under restricted and limited resources on both expertise and budget. • Development under Linux environment. Application is multi platform.
medical equipment and new technology • New research and findings • Types of facilities • Variations of policies and standard practice guidelines/operating procedure • Millions of data / terms used • Variations of forms (in data entry) 2. Large Scale • The United States alone spends 16% of its GDP (gross domestic product) 2009. • In comparison, the Malaysian Government’s healthcare spending is RM35 Billion (RM 35,148,955,576.02)(2008) Health Facts 2009, Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia .
for user • Obsolete PC still being used by user • Using normal PC as server • Limited high-end devices / peripherals • Limited number of PC and server acquired each year
use • Computer illiterate • Digitalization requires training and learning • Out from their 'comfort zone' • High-dependent on the old traditional method • Misunderstood by being involved with the development • Uneasy with new changes
staff mostly is fresh graduates • Low exposure to Open Source ◦ geographically isolated from active community ◦ environment • Staff adaptation, motivation and support • Insufficient training ◦ availability and expensive
management POLS Prescription Online System SPIFU Drug Inventory Management System SPIFA Tools Inventory Management System AMS Assets Management System LIS Laboratory Information System SPD Diet Management System e-Clips Document Management System PADU Computer Technical Complaint Management
registration sticker FIRAS Film Information Reject Analisyst used by Radiology department ICD 10 International Classification of Diseases v10 Attendance Staff attendance record and management Transfusion Blood Donation Management for Blood Bank Department Mortuary Mortuary Management HUSM Formulary Drugs Information Database Electronic Medical Archives (EMA) Digital Image Medical Records Management System