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February, 2013 News
VRA Deploys Health Information Management System (HIMS)
The Health Services Department of the VRA will, from March this year, deploy a new electronic data collection system across its various medical facilities in Akosombo, Akuse, Accra and Aboadze to facilitate efficiency in its health care delivery.
The new technology innovation known as the Health Information Management System (HIMS), is being implemented by the Health Services Department with support from the Management Information System (MIS) and Queauji Consult.
It will convert manual business processes in the VRA health facilities into an electronic platform and deepen efficiency and also assist the Department in cost recovery and become sustainable as a strategic business unit.
Dr. Mrs. Rebecca Acquaah-Arhin, acting Director of the Health Services Department, throwing more light on the new system to Supervisors and Unit Heads in the Health Services Department at a sensitization programme said, it will increase patient satisfaction, efficiency, improve patients care and lower the total cost of operation.
She said some medical facilities in the country such as the SSNIT and 37-military Hospitals and the Cocoa Clinic had successfully implemented the new technology and moved away from the manual system. "So far we have finished with the scanning of patients documents for the past 10 years; and we have trained staff at Aboadze and Akosombo and it is being completed in the Accra Clinic as well", she summed up in an interview.
According to her, the project, which should have been operational a decade ago, began as a pilot process at the Aboadze Records Unit to correct and embrace the possible challenges associated with the new system before hooking it to the rest of the facilities at Akosombo, Akuse and Accra.
She said various units at the hospital such as the records, nursing, planning, laboratory, eye, and dental, theatre, reproductive health, X-ray and mortuary were still operating under the manual programme and was confident that these units will operate efficiently with HIMS.
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