{"id":818,"date":"2025-07-15T05:35:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T05:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/?p=818"},"modified":"2025-07-15T05:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T05:35:51","slug":"field-visit-to-dhulikhel-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"FIELD VISIT TO DHULIKHEL HOSPITAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The third batch of the Master&#8217;s in Health Informatics program visited Dhulikhel Hospital, a partner institution of Kathmandu University, Nepal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This academic field visit aimed to provide students with firsthand exposure to the practical implementation of hospital information systems in a real-world healthcare setting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the visit, the hospital&#8217;s IT and Health Informatics teams provided an in-depth orientation on the design, development, and deployment of Dhulikhel Hospital\u2019s Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system. The students learned about how patient data is managed electronically across different departments, including registration, outpatient and inpatient services, laboratory, pharmacy, and billing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team also shared insights into the hospital&#8217;s journey in building a robust and scalable EMR system, highlighting key features such as user-friendly interfaces, role-based access controls, clinical decision support, and reporting functionalities. Discussions included the challenges faced in system integration, data security, capacity building, and sustainability in the context of a resource-limited setting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-816 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dhulikhel_hospital_visit-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dhulikhel_hospital_visit-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dhulikhel_hospital_visit-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dhulikhel_hospital_visit-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dhulikhel_hospital_visit-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dhulikhel_hospital_visit-440x330.jpeg 440w, https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dhulikhel_hospital_visit-920x690.jpeg 920w, https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dhulikhel_hospital_visit.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Associate Prof Dr Rabindra Bista with personnels from Dhulikhel Hospital and 3rd batch Masters in Health informatics students.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third batch of the Master&#8217;s in Health Informatics program visited Dhulikhel Hospital, a partner institution of Kathmandu University, Nepal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/?p=818\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FIELD VISIT TO DHULIKHEL HOSPITAL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neem.ku.edu.np\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}