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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.

Buying a hospital software

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Cost of ownership is an important factor to be considered while buying a software for a hospital.

Is it a cost saving tool or something that adds to your overheads in terms of manpower, management resources, space, electricity, software applications, operating system and relational database.

Business and Trust

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

At a recent management conference a delightful presenter had to a nice anecdote to share. with a hard reality to bite..

A businessman,wanting induct his 5 year old son into the bignezz world, asked him to take a plunge into the deepest part of the swimming pool located at the backyard. The ever obedient son obliged to the wishes of his father, not realising the fact that he could not swim. At the stage where the son was on the verge of drowning, the father jumped in the pool to save his son. Once recovered, the moral of the story was conveyed to him – In business do not even trust your father !!

Last week, I had the opportunity to have a heart to heart talk with an old client of ours – a doctor owner. It seems there were two pharmacies running in the hospital. The first of course was run by the hospital and the second by the pharmacist. A pharmacy within a pharmacy !!

We get to hear more and more of these shocking stories from our customers, especially of employees who have been in the organisation for long, trusted and taken for granted. Startling discoveries that shatter the very essence of the word trust. These experiences have made us to think beyond writing conventional software and most of the products written now a days have security as the top concern.

Each of the machines running at our organisation are silently audited by smart tools that can record from anything from keystrokes to passwords. Helps us a lot to find out what they have been doing in our absence. We have learn't our lessons the hard way couple of years ago.

Now on to product information

Release 2 is due for early Jan 2005. We have spent over 500 hours to add ICD 10, insurance and other modules, besides enhance security and an upgraded database engine (5 times faster). The all Linux version (server and thin client) are undergoing trial at two hospitals.

SMSbenefit – The mobile messenger is going great guns. Customers have enjoyed using it, so much so that Dr. Manivannan has written an article “SMS enabling the health care industry”.

Archiveiteasy – Document archival solutions – Again being implemented by many hospitals. Learn how Rajendra nursing home saved over 500 Sq,ft of valuable real estate space by digitizing their documents.

Asset manager – Yet another useful tool to keep track of your equipments, their warranties, breakdown history, insurance, supplier etc etc.

Congratulations to Kaveri Medical Centre for having bagged the best IT user award for Trichy district. We are proud to be associated with you.

Our support manager – Mr. Shinod strives hard at all times to keep our service levels above industry averages. More and more of our customers are preferring modem support for instant solving of problems. Please let us know in case you have repeated problems.

Team – Hospitalinformationsystem.com

Happy Onam

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Happy Onam

Dear valued customer

Happy to inform you that we are fully functional from our own office located in heart of Calicut. Apart from an eco friendly work environment, the infrastructure provides dual DSL connections, secured servers and the space for future expansion.

We now have a dedicated Quality Assurance team which is looking into how we can improve the testing processes using automated tools – which can lead to shorter product release cycles and reduced onsite patches. We eventually plan to use these methodologies for some of our onsite development teams too.

The first batch of EDP training for this financial year is to be held on the 25th of August and we are sure that customers would greatly benefit from this. In case you would need onsite training for a group of 10 or above, we could provide this for your staff – old and new.

Our secure broadband support is now being extended to customers in smaller towns and this would help us provide instant support to minor problems and subsequently cut travel time and deploy valuable experience in enhancing customer experience.

The latest stable release of H.I.S has many performance updates, which are relevant to customers using 10+ workstations and I am sure that the support team would have updated you by now. We are now working on the next major release which would have modules for DICOM support, fixed asset management, blood bank and a new concept called dashboard, for real-time management information.

We participated in Medicall 07 – A Medical technology exhibition held at Chennai, which invoked excellent response from hospital owners and we were delighted to see some of our customers visiting stalls to learn about new products and solutions. The participation allowed us to benchmark our products against those provided by IT majors

Wishing you all a happy Onam and look forward to your continued support.

Team HIS

http://www.hospitalinformationsystem.com

Security concerns and emission standards

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

When in the business of developing software products that run 24 x 7 organisations like hospitals, one of our prime area of concern is to build solutions that protect valuable information for which we have introduced a fool proof hardware lock.

With many modern technologies such as the Internet, pocket drives and pen drives, it does not take too long for anyone to take away valuable information which could end up with competitors or break an organisation otherwise. In an increasingly materialistic world, it is often difficult to go by traditional methods of "trust" as time and again we have found from customers that most damages are often done by those trusted by the heads of the organisations.

Electronic equipments fail no matter which brand you buy. Some fail due to wear and tear while others due to manufacturing defects and power fluctuations. A hard disk failure on the server would mean losing years of valuable data, that are impossible to re-create.

Here are some basic rules which can be followed as a precautionary measure.

Does the operator had access to all parts of the software application ? Do an audit for each user.
Are disk drives and usb ports enabled for all the machines. Disable unwanted drives and ports.
Keep a backup of important documents and excel sheets in yahoo briefcase or google mail.
Use paper shredder for unwanted printed reports
Internet access to be given only to back office staff that too with firewall.
Install free to download AVG antivirus suite
Moving from Windows 98 to Windows XP
Storing CD backups at different locations
Multiple hard drives on the server with mirroring

There is much investment coming into the healthcare sector in India. The Hinduja Group is making a $1 billion-foray into India's commercial healthcare industry with specialty hospitals in several cities and a modern research centre.

Sobha developers have setup a state-of-the-art hermitage and medical centre at Vadakancherry, Trichur District. This 50 bedded centre would run our H.I.S suite, selected after many rounds of evaluation.

Tourism and related service industries being on the roll, it would be interesting to see some of our hospitals slowly transforming itself into medical resorts and heritage homes with low calorie high fiber menus. Sooner these units would be engaged in carbon credits for increasing revenues. Carbon credits are measured in units of certified emission reductions (CERs). Each CER is equivalent to one ton of carbon dioxide reduction. Developed countries that
have exceeded the levels can either cut down emissions, or borrow or buy carbon credits from developing countries.

TEAM @ http://www.hospitalinformationsystem.com