Benefits of Computer Use in Health Care Systems
Zeeshan Mir Baz has collected the information from the website: http://www.unc.edu/~kmonsalv/comp101/project1/ in this article said that: Improved Quality of Care Automated hospital information systems can help improve quality of care because of their far-reaching capabilities. An example is the HELP system, which is a complete knowledge based hospital information system. It supports not only the routine applications of an HIS including ADT, Order Entry/Charge Capture, Pharmacy, Radiology, Nursing documentation, ICU Monitoring, but also supports a robust decision support function. Use of the HELP integrated system showed that the risk of wound infection decreased significantly when antibiotics were given in the 2 hours before surgery at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. Also, the HELP system detected 60 times as many adverse drug ...