Every hospital should have its own website giving all information about the hospital activities. A database of doctors, surgeons and other skilled human resource available in the hospital should be displayed, facilities should be highlighted and patient care provisions and general health care instructions can be included on the website . Special web pages with contact mail facility and interactive message board for each doctor and specialist connected with hospital will enhance utility of website for interaction with patients and other doctors.Information about case studies in typical complex situations with photo gallery can help in building confidence in patients about health service provided by hospital.
Full-fledged development of such site would enhance the image of hospital and serve the patients along with generating significant financial resources through supply of information to doctors, education to students and advice to patients.
The site can get financial support by non committal advertisements from medical firms and instrument suppliers and would not pose a burden of financial liability on hospital.
Dear Kaka, This is surely an excellent suggestion.This way "prevention better than cure"can be implemented,Society will be better educated/more confident;But while we try to make such enhancements in our healthcare system,doesn't it come with additional cost?
ReplyDeleteDon't take me wrong.I truely believe such enhancements bring huge benefits to offer better healthcare.I have seen/realized their benefits but aren't these coming with inherent cost like developing websites & maintaining it,creating new softwares & their maintenance? Now every hospital is not a charity firm. So obviously cost of these things would be imposed, sorry, would be distributed among customers of that hospital.Now when we get in such a model of operating a hospital I guess costs will keep rising.Down the line we may need to follow different routes like offshoring software maintenance.So in all I feel while bringing such excellent features (which you suggested in your blog) we make our economy,society or overall system, more and more "developed" from "developing".While doing this can we follow any different model, different approach/path so that problems faced by existing economies are not faced again by us.Currently in many developed nations they have excellent softwares to maintain the database of patients,run reports,do surveys,develop new techniques based on those surveys; but take a simple incidence-if you ask for a doctor's appointment,in most cases you don't get appointment before 1 month.There are several reasons behind this.One I believe is less availability of docs.Behind this a reason I believe is less availability of educational institutes/high cost of medical education.So I feel when we approach more mature model of healthcare system, down the line after 25 years when we have better softwares in IND,we should not see similar problems which are currently experienced by developed economies/nations.
I mean to say - So I feel while we are trying to approach more mature model of healthcare system(down the line after 25 years), we should take conscious/strategic efforts to avoid problems which are currently experienced by developed economies/nations.
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