Implementation of Hospital Information System in Psychiatry

Sadia Arshad; Muhammad Rizwan; Hafsa Aijaz; Muhammad Fahad Shamim; Muhammad Wasim Munir

doi:10.55447/jaet.07.01.100

Authors

Sadia Arshad Department of Biomedical Engineering, Salim Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan
Muhammad Rizwan Department of Biomedical Engineering, Salim Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan
Hafsa Aijaz Department of Biomedical Engineering, Salim Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan
Muhammad Fahad Shamim Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, Pakistan
Muhammad Wasim Munir Department of Biomedical Engineering, Salim Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55447/jaet.07.01.100

Keywords:

Hospital Information System, Psychiatry, Therapeutic centres, Pakistan, Hospital Management, Cloud Computing

Abstract

Considering the growing awareness and acceptance towards mental health, the COVID-19 pandemic opened new windows to incorporate technology into psychiatry. With reduced hospital visits and social distancing being the new normal implementation of the Hospital Information System (HIS) for secure and easy data storage or transfer, the record of multiple hospital areas has become necessary. Mental health is still taboo in developing countries like Pakistan; therefore, developing a HIS system for psychiatry must be taken forward with high data security. This article proposes a HIS system built for psychiatric clinics or therapy centres on a cloud-based platform to make it cost-effective for low-medium income countries like Pakistan. A survey was conducted to determine the feasibility of this proposal in which 70 people participated through an online platform. Results were analysed using SPSS 26.0, which concluded that 81.4% of the respondents agreed on implementing HIS into psychiatric clinics, while 12.9% of respondents were unsure.