Blueprint for a Low Cost Automated Spreadsheet Hospital Management Information System

Subtitle: A highly participatory approach to the design & implementation- using Excel Visual Basic - of a Low Cost, but highly Effective/Efficient Integrated HMIS that makes medical care delivery easier/more rewarding for providers. In August 2007, an old client engaged me to write a research based paper on development of a low cost networkable Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) for a South Western state in Nigeria. We later traveled down from Lagos, to the state, so I could present the paper, but were unable to meet with top decision makers. CONTENTS: WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT TAYO’S EXCEL-VB SOLUTIONS, INTRODUCTION, HMIS IN DEVELOPED SOCIETIES, THE DEVELOPING SOCIETIES CONTEXT, THE HMIS BLUEPRINT, KEY IMPERATIVES FOR A GOOD HMIS DESIGN, STANDARDISING HEALTH DATA TO BE RECORDED, HMIS DESIGN – SOURCE DOCUMENTS, THE HMIS VISION, SPEEDING UP CARE DELIVERY: THE “EMERGENCY SCREEN” CONCEPT, THREATS TO HMIS IMPLEMENTATION, & ADOPTION/USE , CONCLUSION