Hospital information system

reviewed, the most interesting one was the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Website to compare the hospitals in your home area. It shows how each hospital does on treating several different diseases and shows what the national average is in our country. I found this extremely helpful because it helped confirm some of my beliefs in the Oakwood system, but also showed the misconceptions of the Oakwood system. I had always known that they had an issue with giving patients infections, but I did not…

The second problem is that the staff members do not have much experience using the system which will require trainings and more procedures. What are the possible causes and contributing factors of each problem? The first problem is the fact that the Electronic Health Records system is very expensive. One of the causes is that the systems might require expertise for its installation making the cost higher. In addition, there might be other resources that require…

range of acute and psychiatric services, inpatient, and outpatient services and is also a teaching hospital. The medical center has three off site primary care clinics, which are the extensions of the outpatient services. The hospital houses multitude of services, which consist of: acute care hospital, outpatient (ambulatory) services, behavioral health and diagnostic and treatment services. The hospital utilizes 366 inpatient beds, which are situated in private rooms. The behavioral health uses…

three prominent eastern Massachusetts hospitals. This merger was driven by the competitive environment in the medical community as two of the largest hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts merged and became the holding-company Partners in 1994. In order to compete, CareGroup was formed to have more contracting power against health maintenance organizations. By 2002, many of the CareGroup hospitals had either been spun off or reorganized, however these hospitals still used CareGroup for their IT…

Sockolow, et al., 2014 conducted three evaluation studies in community and hospital settings to examine point-of-care documentation system adoption among interdisciplinary care team clinicians. The point-of-care documentation systems were used while at the bedside while providing care. This study was to evaluate some of the barriers involved. During this study, the authors collected their information through various methods: observation, surveys, follow-up interviews, scenario testing, patient…

1. a) Nursing informatics is used to inform about what nurses do and how nurses use information to make decisions for patients. Nurses use EHRs to manage patient information (Pritchard, 2015). Nursing informatics allows nurses to remain interconnected with health care professionals from other disciplines, so that information is seamlessly exchanged between nurses and the rest of the health care team (Pritchard, 2015). Nursing informatics is also used to personalize patient care and to inform…

HITECH The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical health (HITECH) Act of 2009 was designed to decrease healthcare costs, improve health outcomes, coordinate care, and protect personal health information in an electronic format. Three of the core programs associated with HITECH include: establishing guidelines to address personal health information security breach notifications and develop guidelines to be utilized in an electronic environment, Medicare incentives for meaningful…

Week three was about information technology in the healthcare industry. This week highlighted the struggles that healthcare organizations face trying, to keep up with this ever changing field. Many healthcare organizations are faced with shrinking budgets that are getting smaller because, of the affordable care act. One of my former employers was a hospital and you could see the struggles first hand. Many hospitals are nonprofits so many of them can save a little, but most of the money they…

1. The message I would have received as a hospital administrator from this video would have been: The importance of keeping my organization's information secure from anyone else not permitted to have my knowledge, and more specifically the knowledge of my patient's care as well as their demographic information. It is my responsibility as a hospital administrator to keep my data secure, and whether that means hiring a IT security company or maintaining a high security software is my…

project of Hospital Fatimah. Activity Descriptions Duration (Weeks) A Select administrative and medical staff. 12 B Select site and do survey. 9 C Select equipment. 10 D Prepare final construction plans and layout. 10 E Bring utilities to the site. 24 F Interview applicants and fill in positions. 10 G Purchase and take delivery of equipment. 35 H Construct the hospital. 40 I Develop an information system. 15 J Install the equipment. 4 Figure 2: Gantt chart for construction project of Hospital…