Built for
Labour Room, birth documentation, operation theatre, ward care and billing designed around focused-specialty hospitals.
In short
Maternity and super-specialty hospitals run narrow, high-stakes pathways such as admission, labour, delivery or surgery, recovery and discharge. DevOrbital HMS includes a Labour Room with birth and death documentation in IPD, OT scheduling with consents and a WHO-style safety checklist, and itemised billing that suits package-style care. Modules can be adopted individually.
The challenge
Labour, delivery and surgery move quickly, and notes written afterwards are less reliable. Staff need documentation that fits the pace of the room, not a separate task at the end of a shift.
Birth and death documentation feeds statutory registration and family paperwork. Errors in names, dates or parentage are painful to correct later.
Specialty hospitals perform many procedures, each with consent forms, statutory forms and a safety checklist. Paper versions are easily misplaced or filled inconsistently.
Delivery, surgery and procedure packages, plus insurance pre-authorisation, make the final bill hard to reconcile if charges are tracked separately.
Recommended systems
Outcomes
Labour, delivery and surgical events are recorded in the same system as the rest of the admission rather than in a separate register.
Consents, statutory forms and checklist steps are part of the OT workflow, so missing paperwork is visible before it becomes a problem.
Documentation is captured once, held in the patient record and covered by the audit trail.
Charges, packages and insurance documents line up, which shortens the conversation with families at discharge.
Rollout
Capture antenatal and specialty clinic visits first so the unified record exists before admission.
Move admissions, ward notes, labour documentation, birth documentation and discharge onto the system.
Digitise consent, statutory forms and the safety checklist, then schedule lists from the OT module.
Connect charges, medicine issues and insurance claims to each admission.
Consider WhatsApp or SMS alerts, the patient portal and health checkup packages when the core workflow is stable.
In practice
Illustrative scenario · not a customer story
From antenatal visit to discharge on one record
Obstetrician and hospital administrator
A patient visits the antenatal clinic through OPD, where her case sheet and prescriptions are recorded. When she is admitted in labour, the ward team uses the same record. After delivery, birth documentation is completed in the system and a caesarean-related consent is already attached to her OT entry. On discharge day, the bill lists room, procedure and pharmacy charges together, and the insurance documents are ready. The administrator later reviews the case from the audit trail. This is an illustrative composite, not a real hospital.
Maternity care follows a pathway: antenatal visits, admission, labour, delivery or surgery, postnatal care and discharge. Software should follow the same pathway. In DevOrbital HMS, antenatal clinics use the OPD management system, and the admission uses IPD management, which includes a Labour Room and birth and death documentation, plus bed and ward occupancy, doctor and nursing notes, medication administration, transfers and discharge.
A good system also helps you keep documentation consistent. Because notes, orders and charges attach to the same admission, the paperwork that follows a delivery, from discharge summary to family documents, draws on one record rather than three registers. Details of the IPD workflow are in our IPD management system guide.
Super-specialty hospitals such as cardiac, orthopaedic or oncology centres run on procedures. The operation theatre management system covers OT scheduling, full consent and statutory form coverage, and a WHO-style safety checklist so that pre-operative steps are recorded and visible.
Diagnostics matter just as much. The laboratory and imaging workflows share one order-to-report path, which suits specialties that rely on frequent investigations, and orders raised from the ward or OT appear in the same queue as outpatient walk-ins. Where intensive care is involved, patient monitoring integration can bring device data into nursing and OT records, scoped per device.
Specialty care is often priced as packages, and many patients are covered by insurance or government schemes. That makes the bill a negotiation between hospital, payer and family. Having every charge, discount approval and claim document in one place reduces surprises.
Hospital billing software records charges against the admission with discounts routed through an approval workflow. Insurance & TPA management keeps contracts, rate cards and claims for TPAs, corporates and government schemes together. For a goal-focused look at stopping revenue from slipping away, see reduce billing leakage.
FAQ
Yes. IPD includes a Labour Room along with birth and death documentation. Specific forms and templates are configured per hospital during onboarding.
Yes. The OT module covers consent and statutory forms, a WHO-style safety checklist and OT scheduling.
Billing supports itemised charges, discounts with approval and a bill archive. How packages are structured and priced for your hospital is configured per engagement.
IPD supports bed and ward management, nursing notes and medication administration. Monitoring devices such as multi-parameter monitors and ventilators can be integrated, assessed per device.
WhatsApp and SMS alerts are available as an add-on, along with a patient portal and app. Message content is configured per hospital.
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