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SA-HIS enabled for Android tablets and smartphones

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Android, the latest addition to mobile devices, from Google is all set to change the way we work.  Desktops, laptops, notebooks are soon going to be obsolete and replaced by these sleek hand held devices.  Biggest advantage of these hand held devices is that information can be accessed on the go. It’s not surprising that Android devices have already overtaken iPhones in volume sales.

To ensure that our customers are not left behind, Software Associates (SA-H.I.S), the market leaders in South India, and amongst the top 10 packaged healthcare ERP solution providers in the country is proud to announce a path breaking technology and product innovation for Android tablets and smartphone devices. 

H.I.S-InfoStack is a ready to use enterprise class plug-in module app stack which would enable Hospital owners and doctors access enterprise data using their Android smartphones and tablet computing devices.  (HTC / T-Mobile, Samsung, Archos etc)

Some of the benefits for the Doctors include, one touch access to

Inpatient list
OP appointments for the day
New medicines report
Lab results
Holidays lists
Scheduled events lists
Important phone numbers

The hospital owner / management team can have access to information like

End of the day cash collection
Alerts on high value payments
Purchase summary for the day
In patient / Outpatient statistics
Bed occupancy

Some of the salient features of the product include:

Under 30 minutes installation time
Works under static and dynamic ip address
Works with standard broadband connection
No web server required
Helps you build your own information chart
Global access for doctors and management
Protect access through handset ID

Call at + 91 9447 065 186 to fix a online demo of the working product.

The product is also available for SA-FMS  ERP customers – our next generation software solution for Logistics solution providers.

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iPads for medical students

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Medicine students starting at Stanford University School of Medicine will this year be given an iPad as part of a trial programme in integrate the mobile device into medical education.

Stanford will distribute iPads to its incoming class of 91 first-year medical school and master’s of medicine students during orientation later in August.

The prestigious medical school aims to use the iPads to give its students flexible access to the content they need, this will range whether it is a virtual cadaver in dissection lab, annotated lecture slides and videos in the classroom, or journal articles for evidence-based practice in clinic. Read full article here

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Service tax for hospitals

Monday, July 26th, 2010

New Service Tax Notification No. 24/2010-Service Tax dated 22.06.2010 

The Central Government has introduced service tax on cashless services in Hospitals & Nursing Homes for Health checkups & treatments w.e.f 01.07.2010 as per Notification No. 24/2010-service Tax dated 22.06.2010.

Keeping in mind the above, hospitals will henceforth be required to add service Tax @ 10.3 % to the hospital bill on all bills for cashless treatment generated on or after 1st July, 2010.

Since service Tax liability will be borne by the Insurance Company, the amount towards service tam will be authorized by the insurance provider as a part of the Authorization Letter amount.

Our updated release for Insurance management is fully compliant with the new regulations.

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Nintendo Wii, Digi pens for hospitals

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

NHS East Berkshire is to trial technology to allow patients to carry out rehabilitation exercises at home without needing to see a physiotherapist, as part of the launch of O2 Health.

The technology will allow patients to return home and carry out pre-determined rehabilitation programmes shown on a TV screen and have their progress monitored remotely via movement sensors.

Data will be captured and communicated back to a physiotherapist for ongoing evaluation to make sure the patient is carrying out the correct movements..

Read full article here

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust is set to roll-out digital pens to more than 130 staff across its community midwifery department.

The trust believes it was the first in the country to pilot the digital pens, which have been developed by digital pen providers Anoto and PaperIQ together with BlackBerry.

It will now roll-out the system over the next two weeks. Midwives will be able to visit mums-to-be in the community and digitally record information. The data will then be sent back to the trust using a BlackBerry device.

Read full article here

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iPad, Android, EMR and the Doctor

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Recently we were invited by a long standing  client of ours to speak  about the challenges in implementing EMR in their group of hospitals across the state.  The audience, consisting of young doctors and supporting staff listened patiently to the 30 minute presentation followed by a demo of the application, which runs successfully at a 400 bedded hospital within the same city.  The verdict -  medical community is  not ready yet.  Interim solution is to adopt  a document management system.

We have been doing experiments with touch screen devices such as iPhone and Android tablets to build our next generation applications for hospitals and nursing homes.  One of the areas where we foresee significant impact would be be Electronic Medical Records.  Apple has reported to be having workshops around  iPad as a potential device which could bring down the digital divide among the medical community.

A few vendors are now offering online electronic medical records as a service.  Data privacy and ownership questions remain unanswered.

Some interesting read here.

Most doctors hate their EMRs because it wasn’t designed for them – it was designed for a note taker, a record keeper, a financial analyst, or an administrator. We know doctors hate EMRs because even after more three decades of availability the dismal statistics of the opening paragraph persist. Physicians have voted with their lack of EMR system adoptions. It’s not about the money – billions of government money being thrown at physicians won’t solve bad design. Physicians aren’t averse to technology; they are averse to technology that misuse their time and reduces patient interaction.  Full story

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The Doctor Will See You Now. Please Log On.

Monday, May 31st, 2010

ONE day last summer, Charlie Martin felt a sharp pain in his lower back. But he couldn’t jump into his car and rush to the doctor’s office or the emergency room: Mr. Martin, a crane operator, was working on an oil rig in the South China Sea off Malaysia.

From thousands of miles away, Dr. Oscar Boultinghouse checks the eye of a patient. He could, though, get in touch with a doctor thousands of miles away, via two-way video. Using an electronic stethoscope that a paramedic on the rig held in place, Dr. Oscar W. Boultinghouse, an emergency medicine physician in Houston, listened to Mr. Martin’s heart. “The extreme pain strongly suggested a kidney stone,” Dr. Boultinghouse said later. A urinalysis on the rig confirmed the diagnosis, and Mr. Martin flew to his home in Mississippi for treatment.

Mr. Martin, 32, is now back at work on the same rig, the Courageous, leased by Shell Oil. He says he is grateful he could discuss his pain by video with the doctor. “It’s a lot better than trying to describe it on a phone,” Mr. Martin says.. Read full article here

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Importance of Dashboard in H.I.S

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Hospitals are complex organizations which have huge data  generated from several sources. All these  can range form simple to critical but having a crucial impact on the performance of hospitals. There is always a need of collection, storage, segregation of the segment specific data in several levels and analyze them. The process does not complete here, for effective management practices we need to put the analysis in to a format which is easy to decipher and quicker to represent for management decision.

Dashboard is the tool which serves the purpose. Dashboards can be as simple as an editable white screen with prominent numbers with specific/particular headings or could be as complex as a multi bar diagram to a line graph , part whole relationship or a pie chart. The charts and graphs provide visual inputs for quicker grasping and interpretation. How is it important ?

There are many areas in the hospital operational front which need to be constantly monitored and the indicators of the performance of those areas are called key performance indicators (KPI), A key performance indicator may be related to a clinical  or operational performance.  Lets take an example, if your hospital has set a performance area and want to put it under surveillance e.g. the indicator of average length of stay (ALOS) then a dash board can be an excellent to continually monitor the same.  Its needless to mention that ALOS monitoring is an important aspect of hospital administration because it gives an indication of operational excellence. A normal average set and a deviation from that, for that indicator would certainly help the management to take quicker analysis and quicker action saving many man hours and resources in all possible ways.

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Challenges in implementing EMR in Indian hospitals

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

We get calls from hospitals all over the state asking for Electronic Medical Records (EMR software) , as part of the ERP solution for hospitals. EMR certainly improves quality of healthcare and keeps patient records up to date.

Recent advances in technology could bring about changes in the way EMR is looked at.? Tablet PC powered by Android would help portability, affordability and build interfaces that require no keyboard input.

Truth about EMR in India  - management commitment,  complexity, resistance to change, digital divide among medical community,  fear of the unknown, regulatory compliance, installation cost and transparency.  Here are some articles of interest.

EMR is a tough nut to crack

Integrating the deliverables in organisation goals would be another way of effectively implementing EMR in hospitals Workflow adoption is citied as another reason for EMR implementations to fail.

What doctors want to know about the web

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Hospital implementation – March 2010

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Software Associates completed 8 SA-H.I.S installations within stipulated time across South Kerala during March 2010. Providing comprehensive end user training, hands on business consulting for hospital owners, ERP Implementation and legacy data conversion for a textbook style go live on 1st April. This was orchestrate through meticulous project execution, co-ordination with teams based at Kochi, Trivandrum and Kozhikode using modern communication and collaborative tools to meet hospital expectations – backed by over 2 decades of domain expertise for small and medium size hospitals. The new clients appreciated the insights into measurable return on investment, reduction in operational costs, improvements in patient discharge processes and enhancing patient overall experience for better management control and peace of mind.

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2010 update

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

At Software Associates, we crossed two significant milestones this month.

11th March 2010, SA completed 19th year of excellence in the ERP space for small and medium sized businesses – Healthcare, Logistics and Hospitality.

With the acquisition of yet another mid sized (100 bedded) hospital in Quilon district of Kerala, we crossed 160 installation mark.

We continue to work closely with some of our key customers to know how healthcare industry works ; always on the lookout for opportunities which would derive higher operational benefits to our clients and the consulting arm has been doing a few assignments for hospital re-structuring and introducing management best practices.

Our support helpdesk services have been further enhanced with additional hands and an enhanced support ticketing system is in place to enable priority support.

The senior team of engineers made on-site preventing maintenance calls to advice hospital owners  on adoption of standard operating procedures and efficient infrastructure management.

The next release of SA-H.I.S version 4.23 is due later this week after deliberate QA checks. We have incorporated deeper automated tests this time to ensure that defects are kept to the minimum before the release of the product for client site deployment. A continuos improvement process to ensure superior products for the emerging markets.


Work on the beta release of SA-EMR is under full swing, guided by some of the leading IT savvy doctors in this region.

New financial year is when customers change ERP software and we have a busy year ending schedule with 6 concurrent client site implementations

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