Case Analysis: Multispecialty Group Practice EMR The United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham (UCPGB) has recently moved to a new LINCPoint facility and identified the relocation as an opportune time to develop an electronic medical record keeping system. The UCPGB is a not-for-profit organization that provides various clinical health services to patients that have been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy within the population of Birmingham, Alabama and reaches to the ten surrounding counties. The UCPGB is funded by a mixture of private and public funding, with most of its funding coming from the community through a parent organization, The United Way of Central Alabama. It is committed to providing a wide variety of services on site that …show more content…
This means that each piece of data is stored on the hard drive twice, or once on each disk. If a single hard drive where to fail, the data would still be accessible on the second disk/drive. RAID is very inexpensive and is incredibly reliable. Another concern is protecting their server, and thereby the EMR, from damages from the elements. Having recently witnessed New Orleans' experience with Hurricane Katrina, this is of concern to UCPGB. In order to protect their server from damage such as overheating, humidity, water, etc, UCPGB should consider co-locating their server. Co-location is a service that provides off-site server housing in environments designed to provide optimal functioning conditions. Services include redundant power, internet connectivity, cooling, security, and protection against environmental factors such as flooding and fires. UCPGB also lacks the personnel resources and technical expertise needed to implement an EMR. In order to overcome this obstacle the organization has hired a consulting firm, Physician Innovations, LLC. Physician Innovations is a consulting firm that specializes in the installation and implementation of EMR systems. The consulting team uses eight key steps to design and implement an EMR. These steps are as follows: 1. Understand the users' needs and system requirements 2. Document and improve the current work process 3. Select and configure “best” products 4. Introduce and test prototypes 5.
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Get AccessIn this paper, the role of a social worker will be addressed. A Human Service professional has, in its hands, the responsibilities in the life of the clients and families they meet. The tremendous and arduous responsibilities they take on include, but are not limited to, the well-being and care of people and their communities. Such roles can be helping others manage the care of a family member, assisting individuals experiencing problems with family relations and conflicts, dealing with changes that come with growing old, aiding those suffering mental illness and or those individuals struggling with addictions. Briefly
SHC mission was to care, to educate, and to discover for the benefit of patients and larger community. Multiple problems and opportunities were present within the organization’s IT infrastructure that needed to be resolved before implementing an EMR system. The case stated, “In the early 2000s, SHC was in no shape to support an EMR system comparable to other healthcare groups” (Denend & Zenios, 2010). They needed to fix their existing IT infrastructure in order to resolve network, security, and regulatory compliance (HIPPA) issues. After addressing these concerns, they could focus on a solution for an EMR system. The strategic motivation behind implementing an EMR system was to reduce cost, meet competitive (internal and external) pressures, improve
Partners Healthcare is considering the introduction of real assets into the organization’s portfolio. The analysis will demonstrate the effects of having one risky asset and one risk-free asset in a portfolio. Our analysis will also show that the introduction of real assets can decrease the risk of the hospital’s portfolio. Each hospital in the healthcare system can determine the appropriate portfolio mix based on their desired expected level of return and risk they are willing to accept.
I would do my homework, and research the most popular EHR systems for the type of practice I was looking to implement it in. By asking other professionals what they liked and disliked most about the EHR software they were using, I could narrow the field down considerably. Once I had settled on the vendors whose products I was most interested in looking into purchasing, I would send each one an RFP (Request For Proposal) outlining my practice type, in addition to our available budget for the product and our practice needs and priorities. It is recommended that these only be sent to vendors that are seriously being considered to supply their product because RFP’s require a good deal of effort to respond to. They do allow the EHR customer to contrast and compare product features as they relate to their specific practice needs.
"EMR vendors are being stretched to the limits by requirements to support multiple standards across the country". One of the functions of EMR is to make possible to transfer data into information and to support the knowledge; other indicator of quality is its interoperability (De.ryerson.ca, 2013 CHIT 100), in order to meet these requirements EMR system has to support multiple standards. This is required not only to be able to be used across the facilities and/or networks, but also to make it highly functional and interoperable with EHR. Vendors are required to make EMR system maximum functional
With the partial electronic medical record system, budgeting for full EMR integration is a key priority that will allow Creekside to capture
I attended the Centennial Christian School to visit one of the student, Ashley, who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. It was interesting to see Ashley’s care plan that was written by Chris Robberts that outlines care of her stoma, flushing of water every hour at school via feeding tube, administering mediation via feeding, and what to do when the student has a ‘blank stare’ or grand mal seizure.
The case study chosen is about Sean which comes from chapter 7 in the Crisis Intervention Case Book. Sean is a 19 year old sophomore who is currently on disciplinary probation for getting in a fight during freshman year and breaking the other students jaw. Sean admits to drinking and also smoking marijuana since high school and occasionally on campus. Currently Sean was brought to the emergency room by a friend after passing out on the lawn at a beer party. His friend had seen that Sean vomited all over himself and would not wake up. His friend then called 911 and an ambulance came. At the emergency room Sean’s stomach was pumped and a blood
Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance to live to be one hundred years old or more, and the quality of their lives will be affected by the research and empirical data that is being generated by organizations dedicated to helping developmentally disabled adults live more meaningful lives. These programs also serve as a benchmark in the battle against cerebral palsy in general and provide valuable best practice examples, thereby influencing the American health care system as a whole. While the search for a cure continues, cerebral palsy represents a debilitating disease that can adversely affect the ability of sufferers to provide for the basic needs of living, but with appropriate treatment and care, many are able to accomplish far more than most observers might believe in terms of their independence, productivity and integration with larger American society, goals that are also legally mandated. To determine how these positive clinical outcomes are possible, this paper provides a review of the relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature concerning the role of United Cerebral Palsy in delivering high quality care pursuant to the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 as overseen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to determine the effect of this oversight on a representative
The activities that can be identified are physician engagement, clinical staff engagement, electronic monitoring systems and improvement infrastructure. The obstacles I see we will face are motivating the staff to comply with new policies and technology. Also, we need to ensure we are bringing a good EMR system into the organization prior switching. I believe we can overcome these obstacles by bringing trained consultant on the software to help educate the staff/physicians to help them feel more comfortable with the
What I understand of case management is that it helps Social Workers in helping their clients, meaning social workers take actions to manage the various aspects of cases they are working on. Case management is also a shared process of assessment, planning, facilitation and advocacy for decisions and services to meet an individual’s need through communication and available resources. Case management examines the person’s physical, emotional, environmental state, and promotes quality and cost-effective outcomes. In addition, in Case management the worker helps to empower the clients to become self-sufficient. Moreover, Case management is structure into six principles
Drew Madden is a Healthcare IT entrepreneur who is passionate about Electronic Medical Records and also building high caliber teams that are unique and attractive to corporate culture, and trusted partnerships with clients. Drew has spent over a decade collaborating with the talented stakeholders in the industry to implement, optimize, managing, troubleshoot, and advise on complex challenges accompanying an EMR project. His unique ability to infuse technical EMR background, his experience in project management and consulting operations, enable healthcare IT leaders to build successful implementation teams. He holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering majoring in Medical Systems from the University
1. Prepare a brief situational analysis of LMF for Dr. Townsend, identifying at least 3 internal issues and 3 external issue/competitive issues that are affecting LMF.
Partners Healthcare had established several financial resources pools, such as the short-term pool (STP) and the LTP, so that they can satisfy different needs of the several hospitals in the network. In more detail, the STP was invested with very high-quality, short-term fixed-income financial instruments. The average maturity of these instruments is about one to two years. STP is always treated as the risk-free part of the hospitals’ holdings. On the other hand, the LTP is thought as the risky part of holdings. It consists of different forms of equity and a smaller fixed-income part.