Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB)’s project Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) has successfully registered over 15 Million patients till date and more than 82 million medicines have been dispensed. This was informed in a progress review meeting chaired by Azfar Manzoor Chairman PITB here today. According to the latest statistics received by this year, the total number of patient’s visits in OPD has jumped up to 15.61 million, whereas Total patient’s visits in the Emergency Room (ER) is 6.11 million and Total patient’s admitted in IPD are 73,240. The medicines dispensed in OPD have reached the number of 82.22 million and in ER it is 6.49 million, while Medicine Expensed in IPD is about 405,000. It is first of its kind, unbiased system developed and deployed by PITB in local government hospitals, which has reorganized the hospital information and management in a systemic structure and facilitates the smooth flow of patients. Through this organized system, more patients are catered every day compared to the previous system which was inefficient and less effective.
