2014 Volume 22 Issue 4 Pages 265-271
Most Japanese hospitals have been confronting against the country’s rapid aging and the decrease of expenses by medical insurance. In order to keep up with the proper profit of the hospitals, every hospital has to reduce its administrative cost and to improve operational efficiency. One of the large hospitals with nearly 1,000 patient beds is also aiming at such an improvement using IT system. Although it has a large medical record system for treatment for patients, the system only focused to direct treatments by medical doctors and it does not necessarily include the surrounding administrative operations and information. Hospitalization process had been executed by only human efforts with paper sheets for bed/patient schedule and for and request for entering hospital, requiring several different staff’s arrangement and adjustment. The introduced solution is to computerize the information used for this process by linking the new system with the medical record system. As a result every person related the process has become able to assign patients to the available beds in a faster way and correctly.
