The Foianini Clinic, located in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia, has worked for almost eight years on a hospital information management system for its patients
After years of work one of the main innovations they implemented was The Unified Electronic Clinical History (HCEU), which links different processes to information in patient care, such as medical consultations, emergencies, hospitalization and diagnostic studies on a single platform. This platform is consulted by health personnel with the aim of providing a comprehensive service in health care, when considering the complete history of patients
This service began operations since September 1 of this year, and was the result of the development of a system that was according to the specific needs of the clinic. For them, data were taken from patients who received care ten years ago, and thus a larger information base was formed with the intention of providing better services.
“We have an important team in the area of computer science, who together with doctors who have an orientation towards technology gave life to this new Bolivian system that must be constantly updated,” explained director Rodolfo Quirós, CEO of Clínica Foianini.
One of the main advantages of this system is easy accessibility to the patient's clinical data, reducing the use of physical records that are archived. In addition, the digitization of clinical archives facilitates the interpretation of data to other health professionals.
Quirós, detailed that HCEU, is part of the Hospital Information System that in turn integrates the Imaging Information System, the Pharmacy Information System and the Laboratory Information System, this on the part of medical and diagnostic care for patients and on the administrative side it joins to the Accounting system.
Innovation within this clinic responded to their own needs, so they chose to develop their own system rather than acquire a system from a foreign company.
