Emergency charging system for outpatient service in case of a network failure
Qi Feng · Zhonghua yiyuan guanli zazhi · 2003
HIS constitutes part of the technical support and infrastructure indispensable for the running of a modemized hospital. At present, more than 50% of hospitals at or above prefecture and city levels in China have set up HIS. However, because of the lack of reliability of facilities and man-made factors, HIS is apt to break down, which greatly hinders the normai activities of the hospital. The authors argue that wriat affects outpatient service the most in case of a network failure is the charging subsystem for outpatient service and thus offer an emergency charging plan for outpatient service as well as a method for putting it into effect. The workstation in charge of charging regularly downloads relative data on charging for outpatient service from the netvvork, and in case of a netvvork failure, the stan-dalone computer takes over, and when the network retums to normal, the computer then uploads the data it collected during the failure period to the database server, thus ensuring the integrity of the data.