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The healthcare industry consists of many strengths and weaknesses during the improvement of patient safety, efficient operations, reduction of medical errors, and ensuring that they provide timely access to all patient information. This will have to still comply with all legal guidelines as they control costs and protect patient privacy. The adoption of advanced information technology is a popular strategy being used in the healthcare industry because it allows their weaknesses to be progressively diminished as they gain and use the opportunities necessary as an analytical tool. This would allow their capabilities to be further developed with the new technologies and processes used as they unify the adoption of IT standards. In order to stay competitive within the healthcare industry, then there must be specific actions and measures that must be taken to ensure a positive outcome. This includes external opportunities to increase the capability of the IT infrastructure in a national environment as the growth of industry standards are met in order to decrease the pressured threats of legal compliance through patient trust and the high cost of IT. The growing recognition of strategic leadership often leads to both improved financial stability and contact accessibility of the system. Some challenges that may occur within the healthcare system may cause issues in a hospital setting because of the centralized society of an organization. This is because of the different visions and

In today’s market you must have a Web presence to compete. Hospitals are no longer immune to changes brought about by the intenet and web based transactions. Patton-Fuller must look internally to see what services could be offered through a Web Portal to extend as much information to their patients as possible. Some information that could be delivered to patients electronically are newsletters, viewing of peoples public information that are currently in the hospital, such as patients’ room numbers, as well as the ability to purchase

The health information system being selected is QuaDramed and the hypothetical health care organization selected is rural hospital. QuaDraMed EHR solution provides the accurate, reliable foundation organizations need to link and manage patient records across disparate Information technology (IT) systems in rural hospital. By leveraging the powerful capabilities of QuaDramed’s EHR technology and PatientSecure, organizations can better patient safety and satisfaction, protect patients from medical identity theft, and minimize the risk of insurance card fraud. Organizations can also reduce duplicate healthcare records and overlays in the EHR leading to immediate cost and time saving (QuadraMed Corporation, 2015).

Today’s healthcare organizations have changed, mirroring or leading the changes seen in their enterprise counterparts. Organizations have become widely distributed, and most don’t have a dedicated IT staff. At the same time, most clinics or distributed sites require connectivity to hospital resources/applications, and reliable, high speed wireless networks to function. The mobile nature of caregivers and the growing use of networked imaging and video in patient care settings make an affordable, easy to manage network mission critical.

The analysis is going to involve a scrutiny of the Natividad Medical Center's Hospital Computer Information Systems (HCIS) network and its hospital-grade systems infrastructure and technology components. The analysis is going to be carried out in line with the requirements of Patient Safety and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) Acts, the Joint Commission (TJC) as well as other national and international regulatory bodies. All elements of information assurance and security are to be ascertained. In this regard, information availability, confidentiality, integrity and security are our primary concerns (Dennis,2005).As indicated earlier, the hospital industry is governed by tough laws and

A legacy system is an important topic to address because of its magnitude within a health care organization. A legacy system can be a health care organization information system, nurse scheduling system, purchasing and inventory control system, admission-discharge-transfer systems, and facility planning system ( ). Any EHR system considered by a health care organization has to take into consideration the compatibility with the legacy systems already used within the facility. One of the most popular EHR platforms is the cloud-hosting services because installation is minimal and the cost is based on the number of embedded applications needed. In the article, " " by talks about how middleware has the opportunity to connect and gather data from different EHR systems once

The acquisition of an information technology (IT) system by a healthcare organization must incorporate several different concerns. Generally, there is a process by which the organization determines what functions and capabilities are essential for the new IT system to provide. Much of that concern is dictated by specific goals of the organization, its mission, and the operational elements of the organization. Most importantly, the organization must consider the varied interests and needs of all of its stakeholders in relation to the new IT system.

With the rapid growth in technology, many healthcare organizations have embraced the use of healthcare information technologies. As such, the information technology department has various staffs that perform fundamental roles in the information technology-related activities. It ranges from activities of customizing a software to implementing and maintaining a network to ensure effective system backups. In addition, these healthcare information technologies bring about other

Health care companies are increasingly relying on networked information systems to share patient data and records. Therefore, choosing the correct internet access technology is key to any company who wants to be competitive in this environment. Fortunately for NHS, there are several internet access options available for this project; these include DSL, cable, T1, cellular, and satellite

Change in any organization depends not only with its internal environment, but is also influenced by the external environment as well. One of the common road blocks that organizations has to cross through is the budget constraints. The following case study focuses on the similar issue that the Basic Health (BH) had to face in order to continue its program in providing health coverage to low-income families. BH is overseen by Health Care Authority (HCA), which is a Washington state agency that oversees seven health care programs.

By expanding the existing infrastructure out of state the IT Director must implement an information technology system that would be beneficial for the healthcare providers. The system must be cost efficient and provide quality care that is accessible from a wide area network. In order to build this type of infrastructure we must make sure the proposed infrastructure has appropriate security, functionality, and easy access. This type of infrastructure would work effortlessly to provide the best patient care. The proposed network infrastructure would acknowledge the risks

Hawaii Health Systems Corporation has twelve facilities across five different islands with 1,275 licensed beds. It consists of five regions: East Hawaii, West Hawaii, Kauai, Maui and Oahu. HHSC is listed as the fourth largest health system in the country and the fourth largest on the islands, outside of Oahu (www.hhsc.org, 2014). In addition, it is the only provider of acute care on Maui and Lanai. In the West Hawaii Region, HHSC operates two facilities, Kona Community Hospital and Kohala Hospital. Kona Community Hospital, opened in 1914, operates a 94 bed acute care facility with a fully operational 24 hour Emergency Room. The East Hawaii region operates three facilities. The largest facility is located in Hilo, with Ka’u being a

The HealthSouth Corporation was started in 1984 by Richard Scrushy with hopes of becoming one of the largest healthcare companies in the country. It was doing quite well by 1996 with a market value of nearly $12 billion and was one of the United States largest healthcare firms. This all fell apart in 2003 when it was discovered that Scrushy and his employees had committed fraud in the estimated range of almost $2.7 billion (Daigle, Louwers and Morris 887). Scrushy, over the years, had brought on many new faces to the company. Many of these employees were friends of Scrushy from previous business ventures and business meetings. These employees and the others involved in the fraud were given the name ‘family’; highly due to the fact that they all knew what was happening and not one wanted to go to the authorities to confess. It was after the fraud had gone on for nearly six years that the former CFO Weston Smith tipped off federal investigators.

I work for a small health system that unfortunately hasn’t yet been able to consolidate into one universal hospital information system (HIS) solution. Given the disparity that exists, while unfortunate and cumbersome to our patient base, the decision was made to employ different patient portals for each of the two main hospital campuses. The two different patient portal products we implemented were RelayHealth (McKesson) and MobileMD (Siemens).

For a medium-sized urban hospital with 160 beds and 1,500 associates to be able to gain the trust and confidence of patients and compete with mega-hospitals in the healthcare industry, the management of the hospital would have to explore new technologies that would enhance the quality of services and patient care rendered to customers. Further, to ensure that all the departments in the hospitals such as ICUs, mother & baby, emergency services, radiology, oncology, surgery, and operating room (OR) would have to function efficiently and improve the patient experience. New EMR application would improve the security of patient’s information and ensure timely retrieval of medical records such that the quality of diagnosis would be enhanced significantly. As the IT director, it is my responsibility to make sure that the hospital system has a robust IT network that would enable efficient information flow within