BUMRUNGRAD’S HOSPITAL

2000 INFORMATION SYSTEM

By:
SUNIL KUMAR SINGH(10BSP0210)
SAURAV SENGUPTA (10BSP0194)
SUMIT KUHAR (10BSP0208)
SUMEET DAS (10BSP0956)
WHY DO HOSPITALS NEED IS?

 Clients/ patients information.

 Record keeping.
 Billings.
 Inventory management.
 Suppliers details and accounts.
 Doctors’ details.
 Medical transcription.
 Shift allocation of staffs.
 Give patients better flexibility and ease Etc.,
 ABOUT BUMRUNGRAD:

 Established in Sep 1980, jointly by Bangkok bank and

Sophonpanich family.
 In 1989, went public to raise funds.
 From 1991 to 2000, it became the best privately
managed hospital in Thailand.
 Jan 1997, changed location to the center of the city
with increased capacity and improved facilities.
 Jul 1997, faced tough situation due to southeast Asian
currency crisis.
ABOUT BUMRUNGRAD contd.:

 Mar 1997, certified with ISO 9002 quality certification.

 1999, ISO certified it as a “Comprehensive Tertiary
Acute Medical Centre” first of its kind.
 1997, launched its website www.bumrungrad.com.
 Why did they need a change:

 Enhance service quality.

 Existing systems posed problems followed by high
maintenance cost.
 To deliver information and directing business.
 Retaining the best doctors was anotherr major
challenge.
 Enable them to make right decisions at the right time.
 Better connectivity with customers.
Tough times doesn’t last but tough
people do:

 From a brick n mortar company to brick n click

company. Choosing GCS.
 Adopting Hospital 2000 IS.
 Training 1200 staffs and 200 doctors on the system
was not an easy take.
 Data conversion:
1. extraction of data from old systems filtering
them and feeding it to newly implemented one.
2. conversion of data from Thai language to
English.
 Contd.

3. Major challenge was with the DMS of FileNet

corporation.
4. Risk of failure of the new systems when the
old systems were made to switch off. But eventually
became successful.

 Training.
Hardware and Software Expansion:

 Personal computers with standardized configuration.

 Power Vault 650F Fiber channel storage system.
 Storage system ran on MS SQL platform. Formed
database for Hospital 2000 IS.
 Uniform configuration.
 Unique operating system.
 Systems connected to the Internet through leased
lines through satellite connection.
Hardware and Software Expansion
contd.:

 Three tier system architecture.

 Data warehousing and online analytical Processing.

 Network architecture:
 Enabled uniform flow of information.
 Servers and clients used TCP/IP protocol.

 Facilitated increasing no. of clients.

 Reduced expenditure.
Renaissance in system design:

 In 2007 New operating system: A unique combination of

Microsoft 2005 server and SQL server 2005.
 Implementation of Amalga PACS (Picture Archive
Communication System).
 Digital image storage and real time processing.
 Records and reports were available online for real time
accessing.
 Elimination of cost of storage and maintenance.
 Multilingual capabilities system.
 Significant revenue margin with respect to competitors.
Patient Info Illustration
 BENEFITS:

 Increased efficiency of operations.

 Centralized data storage and retrieval.
 Type of prescription was not a hurdle anymore.
 Any doctor could attend any patient, due to easy
availability of records.
 Far ahead of competitors.
QUERIES
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