A NEW DIMENSION IN MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

VISUAL MEDSYS, the only complete information and operating system developed in the Philippines, is the answer to the computerization question. It was designed and developed with the following principals in focus:

1. VISUAL MEDSYS is planned for ease of use and operation. By employing menus and automatic functions, it is simpler to train a new employee to follow the computer procedure than the traditional manual approach.

2. Fast efficient computerization should not be expensive. Rather, it must pay for itself through efficiencies and better patient service. Programs function on the new generation of powerful but low cost microcomputer local area networks. 3. A system should be designed by experts who know hospital operations. They have the knowledge that will provide the efficient and integrated system that health managers require. 4. The system should be open so that it allows for future improvements and growth in the hospital and its computer facilities.

In the financial area VISUAL MEDSYS provides for rapid and accurate patient charging. Bills are computed and ready for printing in less the 3 seconds. Even Medicare/Insurance allowances are automatically prepared if requested. It is a true multi-user routine that allows processing for billing or discharge simultaneously on a large number of terminals. This helps solve the standard backlog problem that plagues most billing offices.

Staffing problems, cost constraints, increasing patient loads and demands for service, and a more technological medical environment are all exigencies confronting today's hospitals and outpatient clinics. A fully integrated computerized system provides an appropriate response by the management in meeting the problems of this increasingly complex situation.

VISUAL MEDSYS is the most powerful hospital information system available in the Philippines today. The program, used in conjunction with the new generation of microcomputers, will give hospital directors and administrators the same potent capabilities of the bigger computers but at a small fraction of the cost. The built in features will yield improved hospital efficiency, and will pay for itself through better inventory control, accounts receivable processing and reduced bad debts.