Archive for July, 2008

Goroka General Hospital management are pleased to announce the launch of the new Hospital’s website.

A first for a PNG Hospital !!!

Goroka General Hospital is committed to embracing Information Technology (IT) as part of its overall strategic direction which is to enhance and improve the delivery of effective Health Services to people of the Eastern Highland’s Province of Papua New Guinea.

In addition to the commissioning of this website the Hospital has already implemented several other IT related projects over the past 18 months which include:

• Establishment up of a Business Resource Center (BRC) that has a state of the art IT Training Facility with 12 PC’s, where regular Computer Training is conducted and offered to Hospital staff.

• Deployment of approximately 50 PC’s and Laptops to various Hospital Departments.

• Availability of Internet Services (eg: WWW and Email) to staff through the Business Resources Center including access to the HINARI Online Subscription.

• Development and Programming of several Hospital Information Systems (HIS) including: Laboratory Results Application, Medical Stores Application, Attendance Register and various statistical reporting tools to assist Departments with their reporting requirements.

We are also very excited to announce that all of the Software and Systems deployed at the Hospital have been done using an Open Source Software (OSS) framework. This approach has saved the Hospital the high costs associated with the licensing of Proprietary Software Systems (eg: MIcrosoft).
This website will continue to evolve and we already have planned to launch the following web services in the near future:

• An online Forum for PNG Doctors to discuss and share relevant clinical information.

• A Member’s section which will give registered users access to additional information.

• Hospital news items.

• Links to useful Health Resources.

• Other features.

So stay tuned and in the meantime if you need to contact the Hospital you may do so by sending an email to: info@ggh.org.pg.