Introduction

New realities are placing pressures on the healthcare industry, and how patient care is delivered. Rising hospital management costs, an aging population, a shortage of healthcare workers, challenges in accessing services, timely availability of information, issues of safety and quality, and rising consumerism are some of the facts of today’s healthcare system. The industry has reached a point of chasm, where they need to decide how services could be delivered more effectively to reduce costs, improve quality, and extend reach. The critical questions facing the industry today include: how can we effectively manage hospitals and provide enhanced services without placing additional burden on a system already pushed to its limits; how can we provide care in a cost-efficient manner at a time when healthcare spending is rising; and how do we most efficiently use our resources and support front-line staff in order to reduce medical errors and enhance quality of care.

These are just a few questions facing the industry. It looks bleak, but there’s hope. There are new information technologies available to help. Information technologies that enable immediate, information-rich communications and provide easy-to-use collaborative tools are increasingly becoming a vital part of today’s healthcare.

Quintegra, as a healthcare IT solutions partner, is committed to preparing hospitals to meet future challenges - and to secure their attractiveness to patients, referral sources, and staff by means of long-term concepts. Leveraging upon a dedicated healthcare practice group, Quintegra has developed a next-generation Hospital Management & Information System (HMIS) that is powerful, flexible and easy to use and has been designed & developed to deliver real conceivable benefits to hospitals. The HMIS has been conceived by a blend of seasoned professionals with rich and relevant experience in healthcare industry. The system incorporates the best healthcare practices and is designed to deliver key tangible benefits to clients across the globe.

Offering

Quintegra’s HMIS is a revolutionary solution with end-to-end features for simplifying hospital management – all at a cost which provides the fastest ROI. Access to the right information and the automation of complex tasks & workflow is the key focus of the HMIS, enabling freeing the staff to spend more time on caring for patients and extending the reach of services.

A MIS for a hospital would require being very precise and must result in operational cost reduction, process improvement and efficient management. We have developed a HMIS solution which is very accurate in its approach and suits all environments including large, medium or small hospitals.

The HMIS is designed to cover a wide range of hospital administration and management processes. It is an integrated client server application. It runs on all standard hardware platforms and can be easily customized to suit the requirements and reflect the priorities of a hospital management team.

The HMIS provides the benefits of streamlined operations, enhanced administration and control, improved response to patient care, cost control, and improved profitability. Quintegra believes that every hospital is unique in terms of its requirements and priorities. Hence, flexibility has been built into the HMIS to allow easy customization. The HMIS features unparalleled flexibility & scalability, comprehensive report types, easy customization, intuitive visuals and interactive graphics that simplify complex data, dashboards-supported quality initiatives and comprehensive drill-down capabilities.

With technology expertise garnered for over a decade and specialists drawn from diverse fields of medicine, we help hospitals provide better managed care through the state-of-the-art HMIS solution.

The HMIS solution has been designed as a three-tier application built on the model-view-controller architecture. The interfaces to all external actors on the system are a part of the view tier. This includes the graphical user interfaces to the application, interfaces to equipment, interfaces to external software applications and also APIs. The HMIS addresses both HIPAA & HL7 requirements.

The HMIS modules have been designed according to three categories – core modules, supporting modules and enterprise-enabling modules. These modules can further be customized according to hospital needs.

The HMIS provides an effective solution to hospitals that plan to reduce the costs of administrative and clinical transactions, and at the same time, provide better service to their consumers. The benefits of the HMIS include:

	It aids hospital administrators by significantly improving operational control and streamlining operations.
	It enables improved response to demands of patient care because it automates the process of collecting, collating and retrieving patient information.
	Clinical pathways mapped to the system improve diagnoses and treatments offered.
	It provides doctors and hospital staff with the decision support system that they require for delivering patient care, which is comparable to global standards.

By enabling an automated and intelligent flow of patient information, the HMIS enables hospitals and doctors to better serve their patients. Additionally, the HMIS provides a host of direct benefits such as easier patient record management, reduced paperwork, faster information flow between various departments, enhanced availability of timely and accurate information, reduced length of stay, reduced test requests, greater organizational flexibility, reliable and timely information, easier resource management, minimal inventory levels, reduced wastage, reduced waiting time at the counters for patients and reduced registration time for patients. The indirect benefit would be an improved image of the hospital and increased competitive advantage. The HMIS optimizes the resources to be deployed and helps in prioritizing the developmental activities of the hospital.

Quintegra’s HMIS not only provides an opportunity to the hospital to enhance their patient care but can also increase the profitability of the organization. The Return on Investment (ROI) coupled with an enhanced image of the hospital act as drivers for healthcare providers to invest in the HMIS that will keep their patients satisfied.

Quintegra Laboratory Information Management System (Q-LIMS)

In today’s competitive environment, current processes in laboratory networks have several drawbacks that impede efficiency. Fragmentation, distributed data repository, large degree of manual processes and time delays are common ailments. The driving factor of Q-LIMS is to integrate laboratory networks into a single entity and provide high level of automation by implementation of the system. Value-adding benefits of Q-LIMS include networking all the labs leading to branch automation, 24x7 online availability of lab results, integrating multiple locations into a single point, increased accountability, centralized control, enhanced quality of outputs and better revenue management.

Q-LIMS is a web-enabled, fully customizable solution which provides features such as patient administration, remote lab-orders, bar-coding, scheduling for instruments, automated results capture, integrated billing, reporting and safety data sheets. Q-LIMS can seamlessly integrate with existing instruments, finance / accounting system and human resource management system. It can also seamlessly integrate with Quintegra’s leading solution for hospitals – Hospital Management and Information System (HMIS).

Q-LIMS is an effective and efficient tool for management to automate and simplify key processes. Achieve enterprise-wide integration of all centers into a single point, and high-level of automation after deploying Q-LIMS. It provides online availability of results immediately to the respective centers and labs. It integrates with existing lab instruments and provides automated data capture. Single database server leads to consolidation of information. Perfect inventory control and fully configurable real-time workflow is made possible. Q-LIMS enables easy equipment calibration to increase response times, providing accurate results and minimizing errors. Flexible reporting options, including graphs & trends, provide real-time results on various parameters. Preventive maintenance schedule reminders automated for all instruments addresses quality control specifications.

Q-LIMS provides integration of multiple locations at a single point through networking, giving more control to the management from the point of view of strategizing the business prospects of the organization.

Benefits of Q-LIMS include:

	Savings – Substantial savings in manpower, time and costs through improved productivity
	Effectiveness – Increased administrative & operational effectiveness and improved communications between the peripheral labs with the central lab
	Simplification – Improved and simplified work / process flow through automation
	Quality – Reduced errors and duplication of work
	Simplification – Improved and simplified work / process flow through automation
	Centralization – Consolidation of information into a single point
	Optimization – Empowers better use of existing resources (people, time and money) at the organization
	MIS – Comprehensive reporting on various customizable parameters
	Competitive Advantage – Improved customer satisfaction and market position

Quintegra @ SAP TechEd '06

Quintegra showcased its Hospital Management & Information System (HMIS) Powered by SAP NetWeaver® at SAP TechEd ’06 in Bangalore from November 8th – 10th, 2006.

http://www.sapteched.com/india/exhibitors/exhibitors.htm?range=NWRPartnerPE

SAP XI Certification Test Successful

Quintegra has successfully completed the XI-CNT certification test for our HMIS. Quintegra's company / product details are listed on SAP's online product directory http://www.sap.com/partners/directories/searchpartner.epx

Excerpt from the certification test report is provided below:

Certification Test Report