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Kisii level 5 hospital goes fully digital and paperless

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Published on Friday, 19 August 2011 02:25

Kisii Level 5 hospital has become the first public hospital to go fully digital and paperless, medical superintendent Dr Geoffrey Otomu said yesterday. Dr Otomu said the hospital’s management has designed a comprehensive digitalised system to optimise the available human resources and improve efficiency and quality of services. “The Hospital went paperless six months ago and this has made provision of services more efficient as compared to manual,” Dr Otomu said.

He said the ICT system enables clinical and administrative workflow and improved communication processes between clinicians and consultants. The superintendent said that since they embraced ICT they have been able to view online diagnostic results and track and trace patient transactions easily. “Through ICT we are able to review patient history online, patient booking, Medical Officer of Health data retrieval and 24 hour pharmacy online dispensing,” he said.

Dr Otomu said the facility will complete the IT infrastructure that will provide a fully integrated set of applications and services that improve staff productivity, hospital operations, process quality, patient safety, the overall clinician and patient experience, and research material based on clinically coded diagnoses.

He said the hospital laboratory will be ISO certified in the next 18 months. A good laboratory is an asset in patient clinical care and will make it easy for doctors to quickly diagnose and treat their patients with minimal empirical treatments, he said. “The quick processing of results has made it possible for clinicians to make timely diagnose and treat their patients which has seen the average length of stay (AVLS) decrease from 6 to 5 days,” Dr Otomu said.