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1. Digital Hospital
(Lab, Imaging, and EMR)
Dr DK Sharma
Medical Superintendent
AIIMS, New Delhi

2. Digital Hospital: An Introduction
 Right Information at the right time to the point of care
is the lifeblood of a hospital. Digital Hospital enables
deployment of eHealth systems that provide online
information, online disease management, and
remote monitoring

3. Laboratory Information System
 A Laboratory Information System (LIS) is a
software program that provides the IT
functionality needed for a clinical laboratory
 LIS components include patient check in, order
entry, specimen processing, results entry, and
reporting ability
 LIS tracks and stores above detail and keep the
information in its database for future reference

4. Laboratory Information System in use at
AIIMS

5. Imaging
 An imaging sub system is based around PACS
that provide and captures digital information

6. Imaging/PACS in use all over AIIMS

7. Electronic Medical Record
 An EMR is a digital record of a person’s medical
history that can be shared electronically between
health care providers within a medical practice or
hospital
 Important medical information such as laboratory,
imaging test results, and recommended
treatments are part of medical record
 Exchange of information from one entity to
another requires oversight to ensure the best
practices and policies are in place and being
followed

8. EMR in use at AIIMS

9. Challenges
 ICT infrastructure must be robust
 Complexity must be managed
 Cost
 Privacy and Confidentiality

10. Meeting the Challenges
 The benefits of fully digital hospitals are clear, yet
the path to hospital modernization is not without
obstacles, both technical and cultural
 Opportunity for today is to harnessing the
technology to deliver a digital transformation
 Digital Hospitals will remain a hybrid of electronic
and paper for the foreseeable future

11. Thank you!