Hospital information system

Quality and Transparency of Hospital Care To provide the best health care the United States, health care system is continuously undergoing through many changes in the system in order to increase the quality and transparency of the health care system. For this assignment, we needed to visit Leap Frog Group website to choose a city and a hospital in order to understand the quality rating of that hospitals. I chose the city college station because it is my hometown and the hospital that I chose…

health. As nurses, we were responsible for finding out the correct information and making sure it was communicated correctly with everyone. This should not be done in order to change the plan of care, but to ensure that everyone has the necessary information to make sure the best decision is made for the patient. This is an experience that I will never forget, and it reminds me as I grow as a nurse to always gather all of the information and communicate it effectively, and most importantly to…

of physician quality review and those include Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE), Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) processes and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS). All three of these systems work together to provide patients as well as the medical staff with valuable information when it comes to choosing a physician for their quality of care. First, it is important to understand…

from the NSW Institute of Trauma and Injury Management (ITIM) data from 2002-2007. This organization has responsibilities to oversee, made coordination, and supported the NSW Trauma System. As part of the trauma monitoring system, each trauma center was mandated to contribute a minimum data set (MDS) by providing information on all severely injured patients (Injury Severity Score (ISS) >15 on a quarterly basis), including those who were dead on arrival. The data were obtained from the NSW…

channels. Hospitals can take an initiative by controlling the pricing of the products set forth by pharmaceutical companies. Other issues that rises up the lack of predictability for the demand for medicine. Some clinician’s preferences can create more uncertainties. In my experience most if supply chain managers are not educated. These positions to my knowledge are filled by former healthcare employees without a background in a business. These managers are…

that uses this electronic system. Electronic health system play a major role in patient health. “Providers in some areas can use EHR systems to quickly find and notify patients who may be at risk for problems related to unsafe drugs or medical devices” (Health IT). Therefore, making sure the system is capable of holding the information in the database is very imperative. Since Obama came into the office he made some big changes within the healthcare system one…

Keeping track of patients after they leave the hospital can be a tough and costly job. In the video assigned, a pregnant woman was to be hooked up to several devices and monitored for a number of days, before going home and wishing for the best. Todd Coleman, the speaker in the video, proposed a way to prevent this worry of the seemingly unknown once a patient leaves the hospital. Jane is the main example of the talk. She is an African American woman with a high-risk pregnancy, who is being…

On October 1, 2008, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a new regulation, which deny payment for selected 10 conditions occurring during the hospital stay and are not present on admission. Out of these 10 hospital-acquired conditions, three of them were healthcare-associated infections, which are a common, expensive, and often preventable. According to an article published in Med Care on 2010, this policy was the first significant step to move output-based inpatient…

communicator attached to your uniform. Forty years ago this technology was futuristic. In today’s hospitals, this technology is now a reality. Communication between hospital personnel is a key component to providing quality care to patients. Throughout the course of a hospital shift, health care workers communicate with each other in order to meet patient needs and convey critical information.…

Moreover, the Care Select Health System a smaller hospital is frequently the targets of acquisition do not have access to the same level of group purchasing organization (GPO)-provided discounts when operating independently, with relatively small purchase volumes. In addition to the greater price discounts that can be achieved through larger purchases, central warehousing and distribution of supplies for hospitals in a common system (particularly those within a reasonably proximate geography)…