HEALTH-CENTRE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (HMIS)

The Health Centre of IISc, Bangalore provides health care to the institute community comprising of staff and students. A large number of the staff members and their families and dependents who are residents in the campus. Though small in relative terms, It is well equipped to undertake a number of Clinical Investigations and offers outpatient care as well as in-patient treatment. It is located on the south-west end of the campus, close to the J N Center building, and opposite to the students' hostel.

The Health Centre offers round the clock Out Patient, In-patient treatment and the Emergency Care.  Special care is also available in the areas of Medicine and Gynecology, Dermatology, Eye and Psychiatry.  Specialised Consultants are attending the cases referred by Medical Officers and Area Medical Officers on appointment basis at the time slot allotted to them.

TIMINGS:  OPD: Workingdays 08:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m, Saturdays : 08:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Sundays and Holidays : 08:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Lab: Timings 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 pm.
FACILITIES
Reception

Reception facilitates providing information about of availability of doctors, and help patients for fixing appointments with doctors.Computerised appointment system enable the reception to identity the doctors availability and determine the timings and allot the patients the available slots. On-line appointments is likely to be enabled soon. Reception Timings   08:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Treatement

In the Outpatient Department, doctors examine the patients, record their findings, prescribe medicine or suggest clinical laboratory tests,X-rays, scanning, etc. or refer the patients for expert opinion and treatement to outside Hospitals. The system provides for viewing History of a patient. The system provides templates for the doctors to records all details of examination, diseases and medicines.

Medical Store and Pharmacy

Main Medical Store is involved in assessing the requirement of medicines for day to day issues to patients, Procurement and issuing to Pharmacy and Wards and other units on receipt of indent.Stock, receipt and issue details are computerised and system maintains the Stock information and make it available to doctors while prescribing the medicines.  There are facilities to know the expiry details and also stock availability of important medicines to take advance action for their procurement . When the patient after prescription of medicine by doctors can collect the medicines from Pharmacy. Pharmacy system maintains the issues details of medicines and instant updation of issues to stock so that the availibility of medicines for the doctors will also instantly get updated. The list of medicines prescribed by the doctors will be poped up to the parmacy module and on physical issues the pharmacist can on one click update all the medicines at a time.

Radiology

Health Centre installed a Digital X-ray having the latest technology and it is proposed to container the digital images taken through this equipment to the HMIS so that the doctor prescribeing the X-Ray can view the image siting in his OP Desk only.

Physiotheraphy

Physiotheraphy unit of Health Center is equipped with latest  equipments and well qualified and trained Personnel.

Opthalmology

Eye doctor visit the Health Center and attend the patients as referred to by the HC Medical Officers

Scanning

Scanning is done by a qualified doctor visiting Health Center once in a week on Saturday morning