Implementation of single source based hospital information system for the catholic medical center affiliated hospitals

Abstract

Objectives: The objective of this research is to introduce the unique approach of the Catholic Medical Center (CMC) inte-grate network hospitals with organizational and technical methodologies adopted for seamless implementation. Methods: The Catholic Medical Center has developed a new hospital information system to connect network hospitals and adopted new information technology architecture which uses single source for multiple distributed hospital systems. Results: The hospital information system of the CMC was developed to integrate network hospitals adopting new system development principles; one source, one route and one management. This information architecture has reduced the cost for system devel-opment and operation, and has enhanced the efficiency of the management process. Conclusions: Integrating network hos-pital through information system was not simple; it was much more complicated than single organization implementation. We are still looking for more efficient communication channel and decision making process, and also believe that our new system architecture will be able to improve CMC health care system and provide much better quality of health care service to patients and customers. © 2010 The Korean Society of Medical Informatics.