Software and hardware systems are the main source of how companies are ran today. To remain influential in today’s markets, businesses must remain flexible, and technology integrated. The implications of not acquiring up-to-date technology may be the demise of a company as a whole. While remaining technology up-to-date can cut cost, and implement the highest productivity of a company helping insure satisfied customers. Business requirements thus, drive businesses to change the way production, and customer satisfaction is met. During the integrations of a computerized tissue tracking system needed for irreplaceable patient pathology specimens, a greater need was understood in the implications of tracking. Handwritten cassettes were …show more content…
The change in quality delivered, and the legality of improper diagnosis was highly considered when creating a complete tissue tracking system, consequently creating a computerized beginning to end electronically embedded tissue tracking system. “Smart” software was installed into the Lab assistant existing PC’s within the department, programmed to interface with an electronic cassette patient information embedding machine. As patient information was retrieved singularly from the implemented program, the specimen count, type, source, and patients name is verified by the lab assistant, and then accepted or denied. If accepted, the cassette embedding machine would then electronically embed the cassette with a barcode, and a number specific to that patient, and their tissue type. The patients name, birth date, case number, and tissue type would be printed onto a label to be placed on the patient’s requisition. While another set of labels would be printed for each specimen and part type then placed on the patient’s specimen container. After this process was completed the tissue and cassettes would then be given to the gross technician for dissection, and description. The gross technician upon receipt would scan the label on the requisition, pulling up the patient’s information, scan the cassette in which the gross technician would like to place the tissue into, and lastly scanning the specimen container
“a paperless, digital and computerized system of maintaining patient data, designed to increase the efficiency and reduce documentation errors by streamlining the process.”(Santiago, n.d., para. 1)
Along with the new technologies applying in healthcare, the documentation processes and storages also change from paper charts to computer-based electronic health records (EHR). Many healthcare organizations currently maintain patients’ health records in both formats of paper and electronic. The combination is known as hybrid health record system, which is used to assist in different methods that patients’ information is collected. Hybrid health records (HHR) contain specific patients’ health information. HHRs are stored manually and electronically in multiple places. Current patients’ health records usually contain both digital documents and handwritten notes. Patients’ data are electronically stored, such as laboratory, radiology tests,
(TCO 9) Technology can provide significant increases in productivity and efficiency. However, less than stable technology-based systems can significantly impact businesses at
Changing technology may affect the demand for a firm’s products and services but on the other hand due to technology businesses can have systems that provides faster services like the retail businesses have systems that does stock control, cash and customer service.
Hospital organizations function from various financial resources. Smaller facilities may not be able to afford the barcode specimen processing system. In that instance, there must be an alternate plan to prevent specimen errors and maintain patient safety. Instead of implementing a system wide barcoding system, focus would have to be on the manual processing of specimens. Management can start with a specimen policy, competency, and training prior to implementation. Education and training is
The information technology always require changes and updation time to time, because new technologies and techniques are coming in the market, that’s why, it is essential for the business organizations and companies to change and upgrade their information technology systems. Similarly, the requirements of the people and customers are also being changed with the passage of time and to fulfil the requirements of the customers companies are looking to change and upgrade their information technology system and environment.
In the healthcare field, there is a lot of innovative technology that helps professionals do their job more efficiently. There is vein visualization technology that allows for easier placement of IV’s. Electronic Healthcare Records is a very beneficial technology for both professionals and patients. This allows for easier auditing of charts and holds
The articles by Branstetter, Bartholmai and Channin (2004) and Kohli, Dreyer and Geis (2015) make an important contribution to the knowledge base of radiology informatics. The overall delivery of health care has benefited greatly from the technology explosion that has affected almost every industry. This benefit has been highly visible in the practice of radiology. The introductions of radiology information systems, voice recognition dictation systems, and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) led to significant advancements in workflow efficiencies. To this end, both articles examine informatics innovations of the past several decades that have immensely enhanced
With the use of technology at its glance, the use of Informatics in health care systems is improving and benefiting patients, family and the community. Informatics improve research, communication, documentation, diagnosis, education, and preventing of errors in the health care system. The use of paper charting increase errors, loss of documents, which could interrupt patient treatment and safety. Informatics is also useful in keeping patient medical records, track patient treatment, and progress.
The equipment was then cleaned again, the liver was placed a bin and the bench was cleaned with spray.
Also, by electronically entering medical information such as “admission narratives, laboratory tests, radiology studies, and nurse and physician notes”, one can increase patient safety (J. Crane & F.G. Crane, 2006). Additionally, “compared to paper-based systems, EMRs reduced medical errors by 55%”(J. Crane & F.G. Crane, 2006). Furthermore, there are other benefits like improving the communication between the healthcare providers and patients, providing easier access to medical knowledge, helping in technique monitoring such as remote monitoring (J. Crane & F.G. Crane,
Patient demographics (full name, date of birth, emergency contact information, next of kin, employer information etc...)
Given that the development of new systems can be fraught with problems and delays, there are many factors that drive organisations to develop new systems. The most important drives come directly from the companies needs and are often not related to technology, but however to technological solutions, these include:
Today, the global business sphere is growing swiftly in terms of organizations and management in general. New market trends and strategies are being implemented from old fashion to modern ways, in order to best manage and take control of the organization, along with boosting the employees ' confidence. Ever since the dawn of trade and services, the customer has been the main priority in the promise of a fruitful business. In order to efficiently serve the valuable customer, organizations have opted to allocate more and more cash towards Research & Development in millions of dollars, along with efficiently knowing when to change management in correspondence with the organization 's progress. This has all helped with an advancement in corporate technology and asset growth in the desire of pursuing a healthy growth of profits in the long term.
There are times where specialists require some assistance in discovering the particular issues and states of their patients. At the point when specialists need to be certain about what their patients' conditions are, they take body liquid or tissue tests from them and forward these examples to the pathology advisors.