IMS - Hospital Information Support System (HISS)

1.A Loughborough lecturer caught a cold in the IM&S course. On returning to the UK, he went to his doctor, who arranged for him to be admitted to hospital for checks against Deep Vein Thrombosis. In the UK, the hospital information support system (HISS) then comes into operation. In the light of the case study presented in the course materials, discuss how an hypothetical hospital information system could support the requirements of …

…Field trials are being carried out in Tan Tock seng hospital (TTSH) to use LANs to let doctors access vital medical data & X-rays right by the bedside of the patient In the near future, ECGs, medication histories & past diagnoses should be available to doctors on a notebook connected wirelessly to a hospital's network - Nurses carry wireless devices to order medication & doctors use PDAs to access patients' medical records