Design And Implementation Of The Medical Instruments Information Management System

With the rapid development of advanced technologies, hospitals are becoming more and more rely on the medical instruments to create precision diagnostic tools for human illness. In the meantime, medical instruments management is playing important role in the hospital management. With higher and higher expectation for medical instruments management, the process for medical instrument purchase, maintenance, and discarding needs to be under the strict scientific management. In order to get the best benefit from the advanced medical instruments, it is necessary for hospitals to implement information management system to improve their management by its advanced scientific method.Currently, most of information management systems for medical instruments are designed and developed based on different business requirements from different hospitals. Additionally, utilizing different software platforms, database servers, and operating systems causes the very poor compatibility between the systems. Our medical engineering department of QianfoShan hospital has implemented the information management only for the portion of asset of medical instrument, hygiene materials but not for the whole process for medical instrument yet.In the project, I designed easy-to-use and practical information management system of medical instruments for QianfoShan hospital. The system displays the two dynamic process statuses on material and value, which can help users, administrators and managers to view the dynamic process on the instruments based on their roles. It covers all the aspects of medical instrument management so that we can manage all the instruments dynamically and improve our workload and performance. It also provides the evidence for the decision makers.The proposed information management system integrated with QianfoShan hospital's Hospital Information System (HIS). Its system architecture is based on Client/Server (C/S) model and the back-end database is Microsoft SQL 2000 server. Client side application is designed and developed by Visual Basic 6.0 and its library. This thesis firstly introduced the practical significance and the main points as well as the situation of medical instrument information management system. It went on to point out drawbacks existed in our own information system. Then the goal and practical significance of this project was highlighted. Finally, this thesis described the theoretical basis and method of this system, followed by system analysis, database design, and its interface implementation.The system provides the following functionalities and features: instrument applying management, instrument planning management, instrument contracting management, instrument verifying management, instrument asset management, instrument usage management, instrument measurement management, instrument maintenance management, and system configuration. It provides the different functionalities for information management and retrieval based on the different privileges. From the project pilot result, it is concluded that the project is very successful on its design and the implement of the whole process management. In the meantime, it establishes the work routine and improves users' workload and performance. Additionally, it will provide the evidence for management people to make decision on medical instrument management process.