Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hospital information system


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Sounds like this needs much cleanup, but clear consensus to keep as a valid topic. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:28, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Hospital information system

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Essay. Full of unreferenced and untrue assertions. There is a slightly better article,Patient administration system on the same topic. They should be merged. Rathfelder (talk) 20:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment If you think Patient administration system and Hospital information system should be merged, then why didn't you nominate the two articles for a merger instead? 344917661X (talk) 22:45, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep, meets WP:GNG, numerous books, university courses on HISs, i won't bother listing examples like i usually do, instead heres Worlcat, and heres a gsearch for others to confirm. Coolabahapple (talk) 06:04, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I am not suggesting that the topic is not notable, but the articleis almost devoid of useful content. I think that Patient administration system is probably on the same topic, but the article is so poor I am not sure about that.  I think Hospital information system] is a British name for much the same thing.Rathfelder (talk) 06:30, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree that the article needs to be improved. Hospital Information System is an important topic in Medical Informatics. There is a better article in German, but it contains German specifics. Maybe as a first step it should be reduced to a somewhat definition.Udo Altmann (talk) 07:34, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Isuspect that these systems are different in different countries - and probably change over time. A good article needs to reflect this. Maybe someone could help by pulling in content from the German article. And if we are going to merge the articles we need to decide what the improved article should be called. Rathfelder (talk) 20:10, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Health and fitness-related deletion discussions. Dom from Paris (talk) 22:38, 21 August 2018 (UTC) Rathfelder (talk) 09:29, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Dom from Paris (talk) 22:38, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep - subject is notable, with significant coverage in reliable sources, including multiple books on the subject. Nom appears to agree on notability, now. This article may need to be stubbed and reworked, or merged, but that is outside the scope of afd discussion, and should be addressed on article talk page.Dialectric (talk) 03:35, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Lack of notability is not the only reason for deleting an article.Rathfelder (talk) 09:30, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, w umbolo   ^^^  10:55, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. The topic is real and notable. Do a search for "hospital information system" on Google Scholar, get lots of results. The current article is poor, but the solution is not to delete it, the solution is to add some more better quality references (try Google Scholar and Google Books for starters). Also, with the suggestion of merging with a patient administration system–be aware that a HIS and a PAS are not the same thing, a PAS is just one component/module/part of a HIS. (A PAS stores patient contact details and bookings, but not other medical data such as lab results, doctor's notes, medical imaging, billing and insurance claims, staff rostering, etc – HIS implementations will include some or all of those other aspects in addition to just PAS functionality.) SJK (talk) 15:58, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep 40k Google Scholar results for "Hospital information system", including  . power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 20:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Nobody is suggestion that the topic is not notable. The problem is that the article is not encyclopaedic. Rathfelder (talk) 18:56, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I've made a quick pass to remove material I believe to be un-sourceable. The sourcing is still extremely bad. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 19:05, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * WP:DINC. If the subject is notable, then poor sourcing is no reason to delete or merge the article. SJK (talk) 11:20, 1 September 2018 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.