Hospital information system

During my research on interviewing someone in the Health Information Management Department, I was able to speak with a supervisor at Health Information Management Department at Memorial Hospital here in Gulfport, Ms. Mrs. Beverly Green is an supervisor in the Health Information Management Department at Memorial Hospital and has been with the company for 16 years, and have seen the changes that has come to they Department. She remember when they made the change from transition paper to the…

Stephen Kim BUSS376 Nov. 18, 2015 Summary: Deaconess-Glover Hospital 1. What has Carter been doing and why at Deaconess-Glover Hospital? John Carter has been observing various workflows and processes in Deaconess-Glover Hospital to apply the Toyota Production System to a health-care setting. First, Carter tried to identify a site that would be suitable for a model line. He examined various areas in the hospital, including the gastrointestinal unit, pharmacy, and the “South-Two”…

like customers. Many hospitals acquire billions of dollars in bad debts alone annually because there is an issue of patients that are truly uninsured and they can only collect a small percentage of the balance after the patients have been treated. There are many reasons as to why this happens and some of the reasons are from not gathering information from patients due to the lack of training of staff members or poor accounting practices. Here it will be discussed how a hospital in California…

One example of a quality issue is falls and fall prevention in hospitals. Primarily, because “hospital falls are among the most commonly reported adverse events in hospitals” (Murphy, 2013, p.365). The cause of falls are numerous but, the result of falls is the same, “increased length of hospitalization and increased utilization of resources” (p. 365). Therefore, to reduce cost and to improve patient recovery which in essence improves quality of care it is crucial that falls, of any type, are…

access to hospital ratings through their consumer report. The hospital consumer report addresses problem area such as: patient outcomes, hospital safety scores, adverse events in surgical patients, patient experiences and hospital practices (Consumer Reports, 2017). Technology has advanced as far as providing information on individual physicians to meet public demand about their health care provider. Each state provides information about physicians’ license to practice in that state. Information…

the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), that rewards acute care hospitals with incentive payments for the quality of care provided. Hospitals are rewarded based on three district measures; the first is the quality of care provided to Medicare patients, the second is how closely clinical best practices are followed and the third is how well patient care experiences were during their hospitalization. Hospitals are no longer paid based on quantity but because of the incentive payments…

at risk of readmission or death after hospital discharge within 30 days was significantly better than other models. Parkland Health & Hospital System, TX which is one of the analyzed hospitals in the study cut their Medicaid readmission by 30% by using EMR based readmission prediction model (Amarasingham, 2015). 1. Follow up care improvement Follow up care improvement programs are the second important approach reducing acute care readmissions. Hospitals have already initiated many kinds…

time for everyone that works in the hospital/clinic, but also allows more time to be spent on the patients care rather than having to search for the patients file through many others with the same name or last name. Likewise, this device is really useful, as Hagstrom states, because it provides the physicians and nurses with important information regarding the patient, such as “allergies, medication regimens, vital signs, and lab results” (Hagstrom). Many hospitals and medical facilities in…

Practice, is limited and include disability services which I have education and experience in, and other services such as aged care and mental health. They are organisations which work with people; within varying degrees of quality, regardless each system in which they operate has their achievements and flaws partially the difference between small and large scale organisations. The newspaper article I have chosen for reflection on human services organisations is ‘People visibly sleeping rough…

Intelligent hospital is going to revolutionize patient care. Modern medicine has been able to eliminate disease and prevent human errors, but intelligence designs can help diagnose disease, and take care of repetitive tasks that may clog of the system. These measures mean more efficiency and reduced costs. Intelligent hospitals provide with beneficial resource such as a switchable privacy glass. An eGlass is a laminate which can be switched from clear to opaque white to provide privacy in the…