Hospital Communication Systems



Hospital Communication Systems

Introduction

In the history, communication between physicians and other members involved in the treatment of a patient was only restricted to consultation letter, hand written notes provided n the patient's medical chart and face to face interactions. The increase in transfer of patients from one hospital to another required that the patient's data should be available on systems which can be accessed even if the patient moves to another hospital. The transformations in the field of medicine and the emergence of different chronic diseases have stimulated the requirement of a sophisticated and centralized communication system rather than ...