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This software uses wifi to program the IV pumps to infuse at the doctors’ prescribed rates, records accurate intakes, rate changes, and when the medication is stopped. It helps facilitate charting accurate intake, but, is a daunting task to set up initially. The process has us walking back and forth to scan the patient, scan the medication, scan the pump, verify the pump is correct, and repeat for all medications and can be time consuming. I am in a surgical intensive care unit (SICU), and the patients often have multiple drips, antibiotics, and fluids. For the drips needing to be titrated, the pumps send the time and rate changed to the system and then records them in the patient’s permanent record by the nurse. Once the pumps have been programmed, the software shows how much volume is left to be infused, as well as trends in the vitals. I find the program helpful for accurate intake, which is extremely important in the SICU setting, yet frustrating and time consuming to set up initially. The implementation of informatics in healthcare is important to the future of medicine, although the implementation can be frustrating the continued evolution will ultimately make patient care

When it comes to healthcare, any change of services within the systems like new products have to go through the process of procurement to make sure that the Health Authority is getting the product that fits their requirements at an appropriate value (Avail, Department for Education, 2015). When procuring a system, there are three main steps to follow to make sure you are getting the most out of the system and ensuring that everyone goes as planned without any hiccups. For the purpose of this paper, it will walk-though a perfect world on how to procure a remote diabetes system, which allows patients to upload their data directly to their nurse educator’s computer so the nurse can always have the most up to date data for the patient

The first objective to purchase and build the three environments needed to support the application was completed successfully with a slight delay in the delivery of the equipment however the rest of this objective went smoothly. The environments that were created are for production, reporting and testing. The recommended specifications were reviewed from Planet Healthcare, the developers of the Pluto application. Based on the recommendations from Planet Healthcare new servers were purchased for each of the environments taking into consideration performance and the number of users who would be accessing the systems. The servers remained at the PMG facility for the duration of the testing and the implementation.

Technology is essential for improving the efficiency of today’s healthcare world, and to continue the advancement of the processes involving patients’ care. In fact, according to Dr. John Haughom, senior advisor of Health Catalyst states, “Over the past several decades, thanks to improved diagnostic and therapeutic options, healthcare has experienced an explosion of innovations designed to improve life expectancy and quality of life.” In other words, technology is rapidly changing the healthcare world, whether the change is causing a good or bad effect on the methods of healthcare, as technology progresses the healthcare world must follow. Although, technology can cause small dilemmas in the healthcare world, for example, malfunctions, unreliability, and security breaks; it is capable of improving the healthcare world by providing electronic patient records (EPR), patient’s satisfaction, and increase accuracy within a hospital. Technology has proven to be an important player in furthering a hospital into the challenging game of becoming successful, and innovated.

This EHR model is recommendable because it also features mobile applications to enable patients access the system remotely via a mobile phone. Adopting this HER software model is a procedure that involves substantial investment, technical intricacy, workflow changes, and many other tasks. This model has various stages of HER implementation processes such as planning, vendor choice, workflow & software design, user support and training, and finally modification & optimization (Lehmann, H. P. (2006).

Patient Entry Order system aims at reduction of errors caused in the absence of computerized patient information and prescription entry system. At Mount Auburn Hospital, a system for computerized patient information already existed in the form of Meditech but it was believed that with integration of POE with Meditech, it was become easier for physicians and other hospital staff to reduce errors caused by variety of manually conducted administrative work.

Hospital facilities must be ready to support the community. The reality is that communities need to update their healthcare systems, in order to have a continued flow of information available for patient care. Excellent communication is necessary for transparency in an emergency, because it sets the pace for a fast and accurate decision, thus making the process more manageable for hospital database systems. This raises the community’s trust, and keeps the flow of data reliable and truthful; and may even avoid a disaster. Another way to use technology is through electronic communication devices that allow organizations to update their system easier and check randomly for quality patient care. Healthcare facilities are using new types of technologies such as, phone and e-mail to locate and inform patient and staff in an emergency (NotiFind, 2007).

This essay will demonstrate the different stages and methods required to construct a software system for a health care analytics system. This system must be able to take an input of patient’s data and be able to give an accurate output for the method of treatment, this will support an expert’s final decision. “These real-time systems are active knowledge systems, which use two or more items of patient data to generate case-specific advice.” The development of software is formulated in several stages this includes: Requirements, software design, implementation, testing and integration and the operation and maintenance.

The term e-health is defined as “the combined use of electronic communication and information technology in the health sector” [1]. Hospital e-health is sometimes confused with telemedicine, which is not the same. In telemedicine, a long distance between health workers and patients is implicit. Where such a circumstance does not apply the generic term of e-health, or other more specific ones [2] should be used. Perhaps the reason why hospital e-health is sometimes referred to as telemedicine is because the later is a wider term and because all communication systems, hardware and other elements used in a hospital e-health deployment are based on previous telemedicine systems. Along this paper, terms and resources of telemedicine are frequently used to justify the possibility of a hospital e-health deployment in medium/short times using telemedicine technology. Examples of full deployment of e-health systems in a hospital environment do not abound. Often the first systems used for applying electronic communications and information technology in a hospital are based on previous telemedicine deployments or their combinations.

The present investigation regards the selection of a software package by a medium-size regional hospital for use in the Home Health segment of their organization. The hospital (to be referred to in this monograph by a fictitious name, General Hospital) is located in the central portion of a southern state in the USA, within 30 minutes of the state capital. Its constituents reside in the largest SMSA (standard metropolitan statistical area) in the state and consist of both rural, suburban, and city residents. The 149-bed facility is a state-of-the-art institution, as 91% of their 23 quality measures are better than the national average (“Where to Find Care”, 2010). Services offered include Emergency Department, Hospice,

The organization expansion level in today business le is greater than before. And with the global movement for most of the organizations, we can see that most of the business today evolves many aspects in term of employees, vendors, and strategies, department’s, and also in many cases different strategy and service that one global business are offering. With all these aspects we can see that for such expansion, it is must for any organization to have any organized methodology to be able to handle all these business matters. And with the large volume of data flow between the organization departments, we can find that it is must to have a stable infrastructure for the enterprise to handle its daily operation, also with continues faced and improvement challenge, organization find its important for them to adopt new policies, and this adoption might make a huge change in the company policy, and effect its strategic plan for the present term, which will include in many ways the effect of budget. However it will be also considered an important aspect to be able to have a general view of how that new change in business line will affect the ROI down the road.). As a result, according to the article; 'huge percentage of access all computing resources through thin devices, provided by TTB as well as bring your own device '.software are listed by the writer for the purpose:

To test the basic functionalities of the basic software with customer specified network settings, before delivery to the customer

The purpose of this feasibility study was to examine the risks associated with the network and information system and compared it to upgrading the current infrastructure. The information produced from this research helped XYZ hospital convey the strengths, weaknesses, and impacts on choosing a new networking and information system infrastructure. This is important because it will give the hospital the information it needs to help prioritize projects that will allow the-the hospital to continue to have a competitive edge in providing quality patient care and treatment through the use of technology.

4. Holding meetings in the hospital: There will be scheduled meetings with the executives of different hospitals for the usage of the software. The demonstration will be made considering the advantages of the software (no need for the manual record, time-saving, accuracy, no crashes during operation, reliability, and reduces stress etc.) and encourage them to purchase. Moreover, benefits will be shown as per different prospect needs.

This is to certify that Hospital Management System embodies the original work done by Mansi Chitkara, Namita Khandelwal, and Avinash Chaporkar during this project submission as a partial fulfillment of the requirement for the System Design Project of Masters of Computer Application IV Semester, of the Rajasthan Technical University, Kota.