Major Factors Affecting a Successful Implementation of Hospital Management System

The implementation of a versatile Hospital Management System depends upon many advantages for the healthcare industry, enhancing the effectiveness of the offered solutions and assuring quality patient care. However, administrator's contentment is not the only reason in the successful implementation of these hospital management systems and failed IT projects are reported regardless the permission of the authorities. Thus, this article aims to determine the major factors affecting the successful implementation of a hospital management system.

Goal of this article is to explore the kinds of Management Information Systems, the level of integration and the issues recognizes during the implementation process in a hospital.

In many cases it was found that the HMS implementation issues are majorly related with the insufficient funding, insufficient use of standards, and shortage of skilled IT specialists, untrained personnel and users. All the above mentioned issues can be solved with a helpful hospital administration to the successful Hospital Management System implementation.

It is now proved that an effectual management help and skilled hospital IT staff are required to successful implementation of an integrated hospital management system. There are various human factors such as computer skills, its usefulness and convenience of a system use are more emphatic on the acquisition of a successful HMS implementation; than the technological issues play a vital role.

Therefore, the capability to design a hospital management system to ensure the safety of the data are crucial for acquiring and execution of a successful system by the users, since the multiple needs of the hospitals, is generating a difficult environment in the hospitals. On the contrary, the hospital management information system must should be able to adjust with these changes, and with the development of the system could fulfil the user's requirements and increase their motivations and inclination to utilize the system.

Many studies have shown that administrative and organizational reasons have less impact than other factors for a successful execution and implementation of the Hospital Management System. On the other hand, training of project management, how to use the system and maintaining the safety of the data in a HMS are most effective in the implementation phase than the other factors. One of the major problems in adopting an integrated Hospital Information Management System is the cost of the system software, hardware and training.

Generally, for a successful Hospital Management System implementation, the human factors such as how to use a HIS; computer knowledge etc., then the technological factors such as reliability of the system, information confidentiality and then the organizational and managerial factors have been playing a significance role.

The author is a professional writer and has been writing on various topics related to IT industry, software, healthcare, etc. for last many years.