Hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialised staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays. In terms of size hospitals can be compared to enterprises having various departments working cohesively to provide healthcare benefits to the patients. Hospitals have various departments based on the treating speacialities that the hospital provides. However apart from the treating speciality there are departments within the hospital which are pretty much common to all hospitals. Let us take a look at these departments within a hospital.

We can divide the departments within the hospitals in two major categories

• Administrative
• Clinical

Administrative

• Enterprise Management
• Resource Accounts
• Resource Manager
• Schedular

Patient Management

• Registration Manager
• OPD Admissions
• IPD Admissions
• Billing
• Managerial Accounting

Material Management

• Inventory
• Procurement
• Supplier Management

Care Management

• Diagnostics
• Therapy
• Clinical Notes
• Nursing
• Operation Theatre
• DICOM - PACS

Support Services

• Pharmacy
• Blood Bank
• HR Management
• Health Promotion
• Kitchen & Laundry

Communication

• Internal Communication
• Payer Communication
• Supplier Communication

ReportIT

• Standard Reports
• Custom Reports
• Report Designer

Accounting and Costing

• Financial Accounting
• Advance Accounting
• Costing Analysis

Data Analytics

• Business Intelligence.

Clinical

• Laboratory.
• Radiology.
• PACS.
• Telemedicine.
• Critical Care.
• Paediatric Care.
• CSSD Management
• Clinical Support and Personal Health Record
• Dental Care
• Perioperative Care
• Nursing Care