🏥Hospital — IPD, ICU, OT & Emergency

Running a full-service hospital means keeping dozens of moving parts in sync — beds, nurses, operating theatres, critical-care monitors, blood stocks, and billing — all at once, without ever losing a patient's record. Think of BioMedixAI as the central nervous system of your hospital: every department has its own workspace, but they all share one patient truth. This guide walks you from creating your hospital to running its wards, ICUs, and operating theatres — step by step, in plain language.

🏥 What a Hospital Facility Is

Imagine your hospital as a single building with many rooms. In BioMedixAI, that building is a Facility with its kind set to Hospital 🏥. Every ward, ICU bed, and OT lives inside it, and every department reads from the same patient chart — so a nurse's vitals, a surgeon's operative note, and the billing desk's invoice all describe one person, one admission.

You don't have to switch on everything at once. Modules activate per need — start with IPD and nursing, add OT or blood bank when you're ready. Nothing is ever wasted, and nothing you don't use clutters the screen.

💡 Tip: Prefer a leaner setup for day-care surgery? Choose the Surgical Centre kind instead — it gives you the full OT lifecycle and same-day admission without full IPD wards.

🚀 Create Your Hospital

Setting up takes minutes.

1. Go to the homepage and open the Create menu — create at home.
2. Choose Facility, then set the kind to Hospital 🏥 (or Surgical Centre for day-care surgery).
3. Fill in your hospital's name, location, and contact details.
4. Open business overview — this is your command centre for running the whole hospital.
5. Activate the modules you need: IPD, ICU/NICU/CCU, Nursing, ER, OT, Blood Bank, CSSD, Inpatient Pharmacy.

💡 Tip: Curious what a live hospital looks like to patients? Browse Find hospitals to see public hospital pages in action.

🛏️ IPD — Wards, Beds & Admissions

In-Patient Department (IPD) is your hospital's floor plan brought to life. Picture a whiteboard of every bed — who's in it, which are free, and who's due for discharge.

How admissions work

1. Set up your wards and beds from the IPD module.
2. Admit a patient to an available bed — the bed is now occupied and tied to that admission.
3. As the stay continues, auto bed-day billing runs on a scheduled cron, adding each day's bed charge automatically — no manual tallying.
4. At the end, discharge the patient and generate a discharge PDF summarising the stay.

💡 Tip: Records are never hard-deleted. Discharged and archived data is retained for legal compliance — you can always retrieve it.

🫀 Critical Care — ICU, NICU & CCU

Critical care is where minutes matter, so its workspace is built for precision. Whether it's an adult ICU, a cardiac CCU, or a newborn NICU, the tools are the same shape:

• Vitals — continuous recording of the patient's key measurements.
• Ventilator — capture ventilator settings and support for patients who need breathing help.
• Sedation scales — track depth of sedation with structured scoring.

The result is a clear, time-stamped picture of a critical patient's condition that every clinician on the unit can trust.

🩺 Nursing Station

The nursing station is the heartbeat of every ward — the desk where care actually happens. BioMedixAI gives nurses a focused workspace so nothing slips through.

1. Vitals — record temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and more at each round.
2. eMAR (electronic Medication Administration Record) — see what's due, administer, and confirm each dose so the medication trail is complete.
3. Intake / Output (I/O) — log fluids in and out to monitor balance.
4. Nursing notes — document observations and care given.

💡 Tip: Each role gets a focused workspace. A nurse signs in to nursing tools; a doctor sees clinical tools — no clutter, less risk of error.

🚑 Emergency & Triage

When a patient arrives at the ER, speed and order decide outcomes. The ER module pairs intake with triage so the sickest patients are seen first, not just the earliest to arrive. Staff can register an arrival, assign a triage priority, and move the patient into the right pathway — admission, treatment, or referral — without paperwork slowing them down.

🔪 Operating Theatre (OT) & Surgery

Surgery is a choreography of people, checklists, and timing. The OT module covers the whole journey so nothing is skipped:

The surgical lifecycle

1. PAC (pre-anaesthesia check) — assess the patient's fitness for anaesthesia before the day of surgery.
2. Consents — capture the patient's informed consent.
3. WHO Surgical Safety Checklist — the globally recognised sign-in / time-out / sign-out safety steps, built right in.
4. Anaesthesia chart — record anaesthesia through the procedure.
5. Operative notes — document what was done.
6. OT board & analytics — see the theatre schedule at a glance and review OT performance over time.

💡 Tip: The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is one of the most effective ways to reduce surgical complications — having it embedded means it's followed, not forgotten.

🩸 Support Services — Blood Bank, CSSD & Pharmacy

A hospital is only as strong as its support services. BioMedixAI includes the essentials:

The blood bank enforces safety at every step — compatibility and transmissible-infection screening are part of the workflow, not an afterthought.

📝 Clinical Records & Coordination

Great care depends on great records and smooth hand-offs between teams.

• SOAP / progress notes — structured clinical documentation that follows the patient through their stay.
• Internal consult — request a formal opinion from another department (department-to-department referral) and track the response.
• Mother-baby tracking — link a newborn's record to the mother for maternity care.
• Death certificate PDF — generate the official document when needed, with dignity and accuracy.
• Hospital analytics — step back and see how your hospital is performing across departments.

💡 Tip: Use internal consult instead of informal phone calls — it creates a written, trackable referral so the requesting team always knows where things stand.

🌐 Your Public Hospital Page

Every hospital gets a public page so patients can find and trust you. It can showcase your departments, doctors, emergency services, bed availability, accepted insurance, location, and contact details — turning your listing on Find hospitals into a real front door for patients.

Keep it current: an up-to-date page builds confidence before a patient ever walks in.

🆘 Need Help?

We're here to help you get your hospital running smoothly.

• 📧 Email us at support@biomedixai.com
• 📖 Explore more in the Tutorial
• 🧭 Manage everything from your business overview

Ready to see it live? Book a Demo and we'll walk your team through IPD, critical care, and OT hands-on.