How does a Healthcare Management Information System Benefit Maternity Service?

Every mother and child deserve the best quality of care throughout; from antenatal through to post-natal care. Maternal Services are aimed at maintaining and promoting proper preventative care for mothers and their children. Today’s latest digital innovations allow for smarter, faster and more efficient delivery of comprehensive maternal care. Digital solutions, specifically HMIS for maternity service, help in providing budget-friendly and paperless solutions to hospitals but more importantly in reducing the mortality and morbidity associated with the risks of maternal and child healthcare. As a result, maternal services have become more cost-effective because of Healthcare Management Information Systems that have been proven to significantly assist maternity processes by decreasing time consumption and increase efficiency.

Healthcare Management Information Systems (HMIS) have proven to be especially helpful in online appointment management of out-patients. The World Health Organisation in 2007 identified Hospital Management Information Systems as a key building block for improvements in healthcare. Regarding clinical and administrative processes, HMIS also provides applications that are widely used to assist in overcoming problems with scheduling appointments. HMIS for maternity service provides a paperless and digital platform that enables expecting others or mothers to schedule appointments easily allowing for quicker access to care. Online Booking systems have replaced the older processes for appointment booking which when manually done resulted in issues such as overbooking or instances of forgotten cancellation of appointment or other human errors. Given the fragility of the lives at stake, expected mothers can appreciate online appointments management system at their fingertips. Automatic alerts and reminders as well as follow up notifications can be generated through SMS and email assisting expecting mothers with weekly check-up appointment alerts and the opportunity to communicate with their clinician.

HMIS for maternal care can help in tracking the pregnancy with the help of a pregnancy tracker which comes with the Expected date of delivery (EDD) calculator. This calculator helps to estimate the expecting mother’s date of delivery (“due date”) based on the timing of her last menstrual period. Gestational age in weeks estimates how far along the expecting mother is in her pregnancy to plan her care during pregnancy. Customised weekly Assessments are designed to provide weekly updates and information about the health of both the mother and the baby that helps in optimizing maternal care. Along with this, a variety of screenings, tests and imaging techniques like genetic screening, first screening, first trimester, second trimester, ultrasound, foetal monitoring etc can be easily managed by the HMIS.

One such excellent example of a Healthcare Management Information System is Cellma which is RioMed’s flagship healthcare software that has been designed to provide full clinical and managerial functionality in all aspects of mother and child-care services. Read more about how Cellma specialises in providing services to maternal health here: Maternal and Child Health Services