Components of a Modern Hospital Information System (HIS) 
HIS : Hospital Information System OCS: Order Communication System PACS: Picture Archiving and Communication System EMR: Electronic Medical Record | PoC: Point of Care CDSS: Clinical decision Support System SEM: Strategic Enterprise Management DW: Data Warehouse FDSS: Financial decision Support System | ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning ASP: Application Service Provider EDI: Electronic Data Interchange EDMS: Electronic Document Management System |
Goals  | Efficient use of the resources available for patient care |  | Improved work-flow within the healthcare facility and of interchange communications with other facilities and parties |  | Improved quality of the service to the patient |  | Increase reimbursements |  | Comply with up-to-date regulations and guidance |  | Utilization of modern technologies to improve and support health care services |  | Support of teaching and knowledge exchange |
Considerations  | Patient-centered system |  | Easy-to-use applications |  | Flexibility |  | Compliance with regulations |  | Security |  | Privacy |  | Legacy & in-house systems integration |  | Standardized exchange format |
Features  | Configurable |  | Customizable |  | Expandable |  | Supporting broad integration |  | HIPPA compliant |
Ward Management: Clinical Management  | Ward Organization |  | Staff Scheduling |  | Ward Patient List |  | M.A.R. |  | Services |  | Doctors & Nurses |  | Nursing Station |
|  | Ward Management: Patient Administration  | Appointments |  | Reservations |  | Registrations |  | Admissions |  | ADT |  | MPI |
|  | Ward Management: General Coding  | Wards, Departments, Rooms |  | Physicians, MD specialties |  | Nurses, Nurse specialties, Nurse positions |  | SOAP |  | Therapies |  | ICD-9 |  | ICD-10 |  | CPT4 |  | Drugs |  | Laboratory tests |
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Integration | Legacies | Models | - HL7 and custom development support
- HL7 and no custom development support
- no HL7, but custom development support
- no HL7 and custom development support
| - Point-to-Point
- ULTIMA*HUB portal
| | Integration Approaches | Integration Levels | - Web services
- ETL
- Communication message protocols
- Screen scraping
- Program calls
- Direct data access
- File transfer
- Human involvement
| - Presentation
- Business process
- Data
- Communication
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ULTIMA*HUB Integration Solution Architecture 
Typical ULTIMA*HUB Network Configuration 
ULTIMA*HUB Technology Architecture 
ULTIMA*HUB - based Products Diagram  Customer System Implementation  | Feasibility stage (Requirements, Use Cases and etc.) |  | Customizations |  | New Developments |  | Legacy and External Provider Systems Integration |  | Implementation |  | Documentation |  | Support |
Customer Benefits  | Improved Efficiency |  | Fortified Security |  | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance |  | Increased revenue |  | Prior investments saving on integration support |
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