Faisal Masud - Hospital Automation and EMR

Hospital Automation and EMR

His enthusiasm to embrace IT as tool for effective management and for gleaning authentic data for resource allocation was greeted with muted skepticism, considering the previous attempts at other institutions were absolute failure. Within three years he not only prepared the EMR and hospital management software but also got it implemented. When asked he once said,"Changing the hardened attitudes in a public sector establishment is the biggest challenge".

Although his administrative abilities were doubted, he proved his critics wrong when he established Services Institute of Medical Sciences, in the face of stiff opposition. Services Institute of Medical Sciences is now a premier destination for the students seeking quality medical education. He achieved phenomenal success in creating acceptability of the institution which was recognized by Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, University of Health Sciences and College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan. Results declared by independent examining body, UHS, show extraordinary achievements of SIMS. He believed in the need for meticulous planning for the future while drawing up development plans. His development plans often faced bureaucratic obstacles for being too ambitious. He was relegated to political back waters because he was often bracketed with the outgoing government of PML-Q of 2008; but in spite of the fiscal constraints he managed to up grade the infra-structure including OPD tower, radiology block in addition to the three story air-conditioned waiting hall, Accidents and Emergency Department with 16 slice CT Scanner thereby almost doubling the covered area of the hospital. His interest in the endocrine disorders was, perhaps, the reason behind the establishment of assisted conception Unit at SHL. Although a physician by training, his faculty members often call him a surgeon by temperament. Not surprisingly he invested disproportionately in surgical sector upgrading ENT, Urology, General surgery, Ophthalmology Department and operation theaters.