Hospital OS

Hospital OS is a research and development project for a hospital management software to support small hospitals. It is financially supported by the Thailand Research Fund and released under the GNU GPL.

With the effort to facilitate the hospitals in the remote areas where technology seems to face difficulties to reach, we have designed and developed the hospital information system called "Hospital OS". This software is an open source program aimed to provide efficient medical service and hospital management. Despite the lack of budget and technological advance in rural communities, the developers endeavor to create the effective information system together with proficient people and aim to build a sustainable development to every community in Thailand.

Hospital OS is implemented in 95 small rural hospitals and 402 health centres serving at least 5 million patients

Hospital Operating System™: Reliability Through Logistics

We partner with hospitals to establish a logistical control system that dramatically improves care and throughput

Care Logistics partners with hospitals to provide the only logistical control system for patient throughput and care delivery. It combines breakthrough approaches to care coordination and  throughput efficiency with innovative hospital logistics software. The result: Reliable and predictable operations that dramatically improve patient throughput, care quality and experience.

How does it work? The Care Logistics Logistical Control System orchestrates every activity and milestone of patient care with the greatest efficiently. Consider the logistics that delivery companies use to ensure that your package arrives on time, or that manufacturers use to deliver the right number of quality products exactly when they're needed. The same principles apply and succeed robustly in hospital care coordination. It's a new concept for many hospitals, but when they see the results in action, they embrace it.

Patients are where they're expected to be for timely treatments and services. People and resources are available exactly when needed to advance the patient's care plan. Beds and rooms are ready when they're supposed to be. Transport is on time. Everyone can see the statuses of patients and orders at all times. Both caregivers and patients have a clear and reliable agenda for care. Departments work in harmony, not in isolation and conflict. And hospital executives have accurate, updated information they can act on quickly to make sure everyone has what they need to provide prompt, quality care.

Waiting to Wait Some More

"Why the pursuit of No Wait States" is Essential

Patients wait to be admitted.  Doctors wait for test results.  Patients wait for treatment.  Rooms wait to be cleaned.  Nurses wait for doctors.  Doctors wait for equipment.  Patients wait for transport.  Families wait for news. Patients wait to be discharged.  Everyone waits for someone or something.

Waiting is pervasive in 

healthcare

 today.  A bird’s eye view of care delivery in most hospitals might resemble the start-stop quality of our nation’s busiest expressways:  discrete instances of productive movement (a patient is triaged, a bed is filled, labs arrive, a nurse gives medication instructions, surgery begins) separated by lengthy “wait states” in which value-add activities come to halt as the operational systems grind, trying to keep pace with demand.

Waiting is symptomatic of not only the complexity of care delivery, but also the complex processes and disparate systems used to coordinate that care.  Too often, wait states have become the status quo to the frustration of patients, physicians, nurses, and administrators.