Clinical laboratories for in vitro diagnostics are facing pressure to preserve cost control while providing better services through new initiatives. Laboratory automation is a partial answer to this problem, having come a long way from the early days of clinical laboratory testing. The journey and implementation of automation in the Singapore General Hospital's Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory has allowed for sustained performance in the light of increasing workload and service commitments amid an evolving healthcare environment. Key to realising predicted outcomes is the optimisation of workflow processes, reduction of errors, and spatial placement of specimen reception and analytical areas. This paper gives an overview of our experience with automation in the clinical laboratory and its subsequent impact on service standards.
Aged ; Automation, Laboratory ; Clinical Laboratory Information Systems ; organization & administration ; Clinical Laboratory Techniques ; Efficiency, Organizational ; statistics & numerical data ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Laboratories, Hospital ; organization & administration ; Middle Aged ; Quality of Health Care ; Singapore ; Tertiary Healthcare ; organization & administration ; User-Computer Interface ; Workload

Hospital equipment maintenance information system plays an important role in improving medical treatment quality and efficiency. By requirement analysis of hospital equipment maintenance, the system function diagram is drawed. According to analysis of input and output data, tables and reports in connection with equipment maintenance process, relationships between entity and attribute is found out, and E-R diagram is drawed and relational database table is established. Software development should meet actual process requirement of maintenance and have a friendly user interface and flexible operation. The software can analyze failure cause by statistical analysis.
Equipment and Supplies, Hospital ; Hospital Information Systems ; organization & administration ; Materials Management, Hospital ; Software

This paper introduces the background, the content, the information management system of material supply chain integration management and the consumables management process. The system helps to expand the selection of hospital supplies varieties, to reduce consumables management costs, to improve the efficiency of supplies, to ensure supplies safety, reliability and traceability.
Disposable Equipment ; supply & distribution ; Management Information Systems ; Materials Management, Hospital ; organization & administration

It's a effective way to promote the quality of the laboratory in hospital by passing the ISO15189.This paper introduces the changes made in rebuilding the LIS according to the certified documents of the ISO15189.
Accreditation ; Hospital Information Systems ; organization & administration ; Laboratories, Hospital ; organization & administration ; Quality Control

In this paper, by describing and comparing different implementations of electronic film combined with the actual application of the electronic film in the imaging department and the clinical departments. We elaborate electronic film for optimizing the imaging department workflow to improve service quality and patient satisfaction and other aspects of value.
Diagnostic Imaging ; instrumentation ; Hospital Information Systems ; organization & administration ; Quality Assurance, Health Care ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; X-Ray Film

OBJECTIVEThis paper adopts advanced information technology to manage medical supplies, in order to improve the medical supplies management level and reduce material cost.

METHODSIt develops a Medical Supplies Management System with B/S and C/S mixed structure, optimizing material management process, building large equipment performance evaluation model, providing interface solution with HIS, and realizing real-time information briefing of high value material's consumption.

CONCLUSIONThe medical materials are managed during its full life-cycle. The material consumption of the clinical departments is monitored real-timely. Through the closed-loop management with pre-event budget, mid-event control and after-event analysis, it realizes the final purpose of management yielding benefit.

OBJECTIVETo develop a maintenance management system for medical equipment based on HIS. The system contains some special functions( including preventive maintenance, automatic job dispatch, performance assessment, etc.) which are very useful for confirming the medical equipment in proper conditions and promoting the working efficiency of the staff. The system provides technical support for the improvement of the maintenance management level.

METHODSThe system, completed the software design using C/S, B/S combination mode.

RESULTSThe system realized clients of various sections of zero maintenance, and make the data manipulation, statistical features of equipment management department more convenient.

CONCLUSIONthe system connects the subsystems closer and interacts information from time to time, forming a tight network structure. This provides a basis for future hospital-wide information integration.

OBJECTIVETo meet the needs of clinical practice of rescuing critical illness and develop the information management system of the emergency medicine.

METHODSMicrosoft Visual FoxPro, which is one of Microsoft's visual programming tool, is used to develop computer-aided system included the information management system of the emergency medicine.

RESULTSThe system mainly consists of the module of statistic analysis, the module of quality control of emergency rescue, the module of flow path of emergency rescue, the module of nursing care in emergency rescue, and the module of rescue training. It can realize the system management of emergency medicine and,process and analyze the emergency statistical data.

CONCLUSIONSThis system is practical. It can optimize emergency clinical pathway, and meet the needs of clinical rescue.

According to hospital medical equipment, information equipment and water, electricity and other equipment maintenance procedures, this paper planned and developed a comprehensive maintenance management system for hospitals. The system implements equipment maintenance, maintenance applications, maintenance registration, preventive maintenance, data quantitative analysis and other functions.
Equipment and Supplies, Hospital ; Hospital Design and Construction ; Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital ; organization & administration ; Management Information Systems

In order to improve of the flow control and flow supervision in the use of medical consumables, from administrative organizing to network management software designing, a scientific and rational approach to equipment use and management was explored which established the management mode of virtual secondary library for the medical equipment to achieve the combination of macro-control and provision practice.
Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems ; Materials Management, Hospital ; organization & administration ; Software Design