4. Problem Statement 1: A hospital management information system addresses the entire major functional areas of modern multi-speciality hospitals. The package enables improved patient care, patient safety, efficiency, and reduced costs. It provides easy access to critical information, thereby enabling management to make better decisions on time. It captures patient data at different points, enables queries at different workstations and generates reports at the required frequency. It also provides a comprehensive Search Engine for Patient Search and Analysis. It enables the retrieval of the patients investigation and procedure record from different locations i.e., IPD, OPD, and Casualty. The Theatre Booking module facilitates the booking of a theatre for surgery on OPD/IPD patients. The system enables theatre scheduling, ascertaining the consultant's OPD schedule and the availability of equipment necessary for surgery. The system maintains a list of surgical/general equipment used in the hospital. It will take care of overall accounting for spare parts, utilization, and maintenance. It deals in detail with blood transfusion centres as well as component laboratories and works as an interactive online system. The Security and Administration module deals with controlling access to information available in the application. You can apply the five-steps approach in problem analysis using the abovementioned problem statement. 1. Gain agreement on the problem definition. 2. Understand the root causesthe problem behind the problem. 3. Identify the stakeholders and the users. 4. Define the solution system boundary. 5. Identify the constraints to be imposed on the solution.