ZAGAZIG University Hospitals are one of most important hospitals in Egypt , and As a result of oriented teamwork of qualified and trained staff which had earned reputation and fame in a short span; an ever-increasing flow of patients from various far off places from Egypt . If you want to know more, it is so easy, enter the internet and put these words in any search engine “ ZAGAZIG University Hospitals ” and you will find the result. Also you can feel hospital's achievement in curing Egyptians for free by visiting its buildings.
Being a great hospital, so it must have its Hospital Information System (HIS), which means a computer system that is designed to manage all the hospital's medical and administrative information in order to enable health professional perform their jobs effectively and efficiently, and which focus on the integration of all clinical, financial and administrative applications and thus could also be called an integrated hospital information processing systems (IHIPS). Though, ZAGAZIG Hospital 's staff tried to build their Hospital Information System (HIS) by all available resources. Which consist of two or more of the following: Clinical Information System (CIS) , Financial Information System (FIS) , Laboratory Information System (LIS) , Nursing Information Systems (NIS) , Pharmacy Information System (PIS) , Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS) , Radiology Information System (RIS) . One of these trials is to purchase an application from a company. But it had a lot of problems that make most of hospitals' staff turn their computer off all day. These problems like; bad interface, network problems, bugs in application …etc.
Our application will talk about one of the Hospital Information System (HIS) subsystem and it is the Pharmacy Information System (PIS) or warehouse management information system, here we see ZAGAZIG university hospital's pharmacies and inventories have two main problems, software problem and connection problem (as main inventories are varies up 500 meter fare from pharmacies ). Software problems like: Poor interface, Most of its work was done by inventory's pharmacists (unjustly between inventories and pharmacies), Most of processing operations done manually by pharmacists (average, forecast…), some reports were made manually, Hardware problems were found (wrong in network planning), some operating system problems (OS) were found and it Need continual maintain.