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What is a Management Information System?

December 12, 2020
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Indian Railway launches Hospital Management Information System (HMIS)to provide better health care facilities to its workforce with the help of information technology

About the HMIS of Indian Railways

  • The HMIS of Indian  Railways has been developed by Indian Railways in coordination with RailTel Corporation Limited. 
  • The objective of the HMIS is to provide a single-window of clearance of hospital administration activity such as clinical, diagnostics, pharmacy, examinations, industrial health, etc.
  • The primary objectives of the envisaged solution are:
  • Effectively manage all the health facilities & their resources
  • Monitor performance of hospitals across the administrative channel
  • Impart quality health care services to its beneficiaries
  • Improve the patient turn-around time
  • Generate and maintain EMR (electronic medical records) of all patients

What is a Management Information System?

  • It is an information system used for decision-making, and for the coordination, control, analysis, and visualization of information in an organization.
  • MIS is a people-oriented field with an emphasis on service through technology
  • The study of the management information systems involves people, processes and technology in an organizational context
  • In a corporate setting, the ultimate goal of the use of a management information system is to increase the value and profits of the business
  • This is done by providing managers with timely and appropriate information allowing them to make effective decisions within a shorter period of time. 

Five eras of MIS

  • First Era – Mainframe and minicomputer computing
  • Second Era – Personal computers
  • Third Era – Client/server networks
  • Fourth Era – Enterprise computing
  • Fifth Era – Cloud computing
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