MediFlow + Inpatient
Coming soon
The inpatient side of the hospital, from admission to discharge.
Adds wards and nursing, the operation theatre, critical care, emergency, blood and transfusion, and the insurance desk. Every admitted patient has one account for the whole stay, and charges post to it as care is given. Everything in the plans before it stays exactly as it is.
Early bird price
₹48,000
a year, before GST
Standard price ₹60,000
₹4,000
a month, before GST
Standard price ₹5,000
50 email logins and Employee ID sign-in. Early bird: Sign up while the early bird offer runs (it ends in 6 months) and keep your early bird price for 2 years from sign-up, paying monthly or yearly. After that the standard price applies.
Setting up
You can set up everything yourself, free of charge. Guided set-up is optional and paid once, done only when you ask: ₹55,000, remote, before GST (proposed, not yet confirmed).
+ Inpatient in one working day.
Step 1
Admit
Directly, from Emergency, or saved while a bed is found.
Step 2
Bed
Every bed by ward on one board, with a wristband printed.
Step 3
Care
One chart per stay, with vitals and the drug chart.
Step 4
Charges
Bed, medicine, lab, scan and theatre charges post to one account.
Step 5
Discharge
Six ways to end a stay, then the discharge summary is signed.
What is in MediFlow + Inpatient
Everything in OPD, Pharmacy and Lab
Admissions, beds and discharge
- See every bed by ward on one board; hold, block or mark a bed clean.
- Find a vacant bed by bed class and the patient's sex.
- Admit directly, from Emergency, or save a request while the patient waits for a bed.
- Print a wristband and bed-head card, then open the stay by scanning the band.
- Transfer a patient between beds and mark a stay due for discharge.
- End a stay six ways, including against advice, referral and death, then sign the discharge summary.
Nursing and the ward
- One admission chart per stay, with doctor's notes, nursing record, scans, consents and billing summary.
- A nursing station for each ward: your patients or the whole ward, with latest vitals.
- Record vitals, and chart each ordered medicine dose on the drug chart.
- Print a ward sheet for the change of shift: diet, handover, intake and output.
- Raise a medicine request for a ward patient; the pharmacist issues it from stock by batch.
- Set up wards, bed classes and beds, or bring a bed list in from a spreadsheet.
One account for the whole stay
- One account per stay; bed, medicine, lab, scan, theatre and ambulance charges post to it.
- Take deposits and payments by cash, card or UPI, with a receipt for each.
- Issue interim, final and supplementary bills; the final bill locks the account.
- Put a stay on a package price, with what is included and what is billed separately.
- Give discounts with a reason; above a person's limit, a second person approves.
- Correct an issued bill with a credit note that a different person approves.
Operation theatre and procedures
- Take surgery requests and book cases onto a schedule board by theatre.
- Record pre-op checks and consent, the surgical safety checklist, anaesthesia and the operation note.
- Record implants and consumables on the case, and print an implant card for the patient.
- Keep the OT register and the implant register, with recall notices, and read OT reports.
- Set up theatres, equipment, procedure templates and which surgeons may do which procedures.
- Run procedure rooms for short sessions, with consent, photos, consumables and a bill.
Critical care
- Run ICU, HDU, NICU, PICU and CCU units, with a board showing every critical care bed.
- Ask for an ICU bed; the intensivist reviews the request and allots a bed.
- Keep the ICU chart, ventilation and lines, bedside procedures and scales for each patient.
- Record family updates, consents and end-of-life decisions in one place.
- Give and accept shift handovers, and read the ICU registers and census.
Emergency and ambulance
- An ER board shows expected arrivals, patients waiting for triage and patients in the department.
- Record triage, bay, vitals and notes; register an unknown patient and identify them later.
- Order lab tests and scans, and ask for an admission or ICU bed, from the visit.
- Add ER charges and take money against a receipt; treatment never waits for payment.
- Open a medico-legal case, record the police intimation and write an injury certificate.
- Request an ambulance, send a vehicle and crew, and keep the fleet, vehicle checks and registers.
Maternity and newborn
- A labour room board shows every labour room and maternity ward bed.
- Keep an antenatal record for each pregnant woman, with visits, expected date and high-risk tick.
- Record labour observations, the delivery and each baby, and where each baby went.
- Track every birth still to be reported to the Registrar, and print the intimation slip.
- Print the three maternity registers.
Blood and transfusion
- Receive bags into blood stock, and ask for blood for an admitted patient with consent recorded.
- Record the sample, group and cross-match, then issue a bag and print the report.
- Record a transfusion from start to finish, with observations and the 7-day sample kept.
- Record any reaction and the medical officer's review.
- Read the blood issue register. Groups and results are kept exactly as your staff record them.
Insurance and government schemes
- Keep your insurers, TPAs and corporates, and your scheme registrations, in one place.
- Record the payer on the admission, and the insurance desk has the case.
- Work each case step by step: pre-authorisation, queries, enhancement, discharge approval, claim and settlement.
- Keep claim details and the claim packet checklist, and print the Part C request.
- Staff submit on the payer's own portal; MediFlow is your record of every step.
Stores, accounts and registers
- Set up the main store and ward and theatre stores, with items, reorder levels and suppliers.
- Raise purchase orders with approval limits, receive goods against them, and return goods to a supplier.
- Wards and theatres raise indents; the main store issues them.
- See who owes the hospital, by payer and by how old the bill is.
- Record what an insurer, scheme or company paid, including the tax deducted.
- Keep the bio-medical waste, mortuary, valuables, notifiable diseases and medico-legal registers.
Who uses it
Doctor
Writes notes in the admission chart.
Ward nurse
Records vitals and charts each dose on the drug chart.
Ward in-charge
Works the nursing station for the ward.
OT nurse
Records pre-op checks and the surgical safety checklist.
Anaesthetist
Records anaesthesia on the case.
Billing executive
Issues interim, final and supplementary bills.
Cashier
Takes deposits and payments, with a receipt for each.
Insurance and TPA desk
Works each case from pre-authorisation to settlement.
Accounts
Sees who owes the hospital, by payer and age of bill.
Store keeper
Receives goods against purchase orders and issues indents.
Ambulance coordinator
Requests an ambulance and sends a vehicle and crew.
Next step: MediFlow Full HMS
Adds the medical records department and the systems that run around it.
See MediFlow Full HMSIllustrations are for visual explanation only. Prices are per hospital, before GST. MediFlow is a product of Fordawn, hosted in India.