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- Client's organisation profile and structure
- Services provided by the client and the health facilities from which these services are provided
- Types of service (out-patient, in-patient, surgery, lab, community care etc.)
- Number and types of providers, patients (per day/week)
- Nature of the facility (always open, few days a week, on need basis)
- Current information systems in place
- Technical details of the system
- Departments in which it is used
- Issues with current system
- Ability to Export data in .CSV or .XLS format
- Infrastructure
- LAN
- Power backup for servers
- Internet connectivity
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- Primary objective of the system
- Drivers (e.g. data entry, point of care use, reporting, patient care outcome improvements)
- As is process understanding
Department (Service/Location) based breakup of requirements
- Functions that need to be supported
- Type of users and workload details
- Internet connectivity at these locations (if it is outside the hospital)
- Any paper forms and files used in as-is process
- List of current reports (Electronic and Paper based). Reports needed by each department. Reports sent to the government.
- Printouts required in each department
- Organisational requirements
Reports sent to government
- Typical requirements that may get missed
- How a patient is identified
- PACS integration
- Detailed understanding of the processes that would be supported by "modules not implemented anywhere in Bahmni"
- Do they perform any surveys? Is it expected that Bahmni would be a solution for that too?
- Is money taken only at billing? Or it is at multiple places?
- Data migration requirements (import existing data)
- Would the required reference data and meta-data be provided by the client, or is available in the old system, or would have to be created from scratch?
- High level milestones or releases in which new system could be rolled out
- Artefacts to get
- image of paper forms
- sample of database extract
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- Software (modules in Bahmni)
- Implementation of Bahmni
- Individual items that would be configured from this checklist.
- Integration with other systems
- Bahmni deployment
- Data migration from existing systems
- Training to people
- System administrator
- End user
- Local implementation team
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