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Inpatient

The Inpatient module manages a patient's hospital stay from the moment they are admitted to the moment they are discharged. It connects ward nursing staff, doctors doing rounds, the bed management office, and the billing department into one view of every admitted patient.

Admission​

When a patient is admitted, a staff member selects an available bed from the ward map and records the admitting diagnosis and attending doctor. The bed is immediately marked as occupied, removing it from the available list for other patients.

Ward map and bed management​

The bed management screen shows every ward and every bed in the facility, occupied, available, or reserved. Administrators can create and modify wards and beds through the system without needing technical assistance.

Daily ward rounds​

Doctors documenting ward rounds record their findings against the admitted patient's record. This includes:

  • Current status and clinical findings
  • Changes to medication orders
  • New investigation requests
  • Plan and anticipated discharge date

Ward round records are time-stamped and attributed to the doctor. Nursing staff can see current orders and round notes at any time from their workstation.

Patient orders​

During a ward round, doctors raise inpatient medication orders and investigation requests. These flow directly to the pharmacy and laboratory queues, the same workflow as OPD, but linked to the inpatient stay rather than a single outpatient visit.

Ward transfers​

When a patient needs to move to a different ward, from general medicine to ICU, for example, a transfer is recorded in the system. The patient's full clinical history travels with them. The original bed is released and the new bed is occupied simultaneously.

Discharge​

Discharge is recorded with:

  • Date and time of discharge
  • Discharge condition (improved, referred, self-discharge, died)
  • Discharge destination
  • Discharge summary (clinical narrative)

On discharge, the bed is automatically released back to the available pool. Billing is generated from the full inpatient stay, admission date, ward days, procedures, and medications.

Scheduled admissions​

For elective procedures, admissions can be scheduled in advance. The system links the scheduled admission to the patient's record, reserves a bed from a specified date, and alerts the admissions team when the patient arrives.