Table 1 (abstract A50). Operationalization and maintenance of Hospital Management System (HMS) in Government Hospitals of Thiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu, 2015

Doctors using HMS in the district

61

61

100

HMS counters with functional CPU and Monitor

166

148

89

HMS counters with functioning printers

76

55

78

HMS counters with functioning Internet

166

138

83

HMS counters in the hospitals utilized to capture patient details on the day of the survey

166

107

65

HMS Counters in the 'OP Department' utilized to capture patient details on the day of the survey

113

82

73

HMS Counters in the hospital other than 'OP Department' utilized for HMS on the day of the survey

53

25

42

Outpatients registered in the HMS for 6-month period

753769

634674

84

Outpatients who received HMS based prescriptions

753769

522918

69

Outpatients for whom the pharmacists issued drugs through HMS

753769

445851

59

Outpatients for whom the Lab investigations results were entered in the HMS

334525

314675

94

Days for which the IT coordinator was available in the field (GH) in past six months

135 days

40 days

29.6%

Occasions by which a HMS counter in the hospital is ‘down’ due to hardware problem in six month period

166

203

1.22 occasion / counter

‘HMS Downtime’ hours in the hospital due to ‘Primary connectivity failure’ during OP hours (slowness) in six-month period

9412 hrs

3128 hrs

33%

‘HMS Downtime’ hours in the hospital due to both ‘Primary and Secondary connectivity failure’ during OP hours

9412 hrs

744 hrs

8%

‘HMS Downtime’ hours in the hospital due to ‘Power failure’ during OP hours

9412 hrs

0

0

Mean days required to rectify a breakdown in a hospital HMS counter due to a hardware problem

93 occasions

408 days

4.4 days