PAS Upgrade

The clinic will use the most advanced computer, software and server systems, as well as an internet connection to optimize the EMR system. Other software and network systems will be used for quick verification, transference of patient information from other locations, and reduced administrative costs.

In week’s three individual dissection of Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Department, I will discuss three topics that will help with a better understanding of the Hospital’s Networking Department. During the first topic, a complete analysis will be completed on the network systems in use. While covering the second topic, discussion on what standards may be missing from the Hospital’s current network. During last topic, I will identify the Hospital’s wireless technology in currently in use and how it may enhance the hospitals network.

Patton Fuller is a community hospital that has been proudly serving the community since 1975. Patience care is number one, and they thrive to ensure each of their patients experience is as pleasant as possible. Hospitals are under enormous pressure to treat patients in the most effective and efficient way. By leveraging the best IT systems, health organizations provide the type of patient care with the speed and efficiency required by the market. By analyzing Patton Fuller’s IT infrastructure, a determination can be made about the network and the devices supported on it as well. The outcome of the analysis will be used to recommend new

Each branch maintains slightly different network systems. Plans to implement compatibility among each office and the devices in the office

Right now, the hospital has to choose between the risk of a bungled audit (which will require overtime from an exhausted, unmotivated staff, double the audit’s 15,000$ price tag and hurt their financial reputation) or hire Dovetail, who will potentially be able implement the system before the audit deadline, but at a heavy cost. The hospital administration needs to accept the fact that the bulk of the costs associated with bringing this computer system into production are labour costs rather than hardware and software. All the attempts to circumvent these costs have resulted in the need for greater expenditures.

The rapid growth of the Internet (World Wide Web) has been a major force facilitating and allowing hospitals in the U.S. to send images (i.e., X-rays, Ct scans, MRI scans, and ultrasound) over the internet to doctors/skilled workers overseas who specialize in reading/interpreting diagnostic medical images. This reduces the workload on medical specialists in the U.S., cuts costs, and is effectively faster. Some of these countries are on the opposite side of the globe, thus the images could be interpreted while it is nighttime in the U.S. and be ready for the attending physician when he/she arrives for work the following day. In addition to developments in communication technology, a major innovation in transportation

Introduction: Technology is a constantly changing and evolving field. Those changes can be used to make the lives of people easier in every single way. With the creation of computers and the internet we have been applying technological changes in the health care world for years now. Patients can access their records with a few swipes at their keyboard and share records with other providers. In addition, providers can share reports with each other just as easily.

Another barrier that is common is the internet doesn’t work. It appears that many of these barriers are barriers that can easily be overcome. Most of the nurses just need some training on the proper way to overcome these barriers. By not competing charting on time will create medical errors, ineffective triage of issues/problems by on-call staff, and possible medication errors. The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) needs to be up to date and completed by the end of each shift.

That includes all MRI, CT, MG, Ultrasound, X-Ray, Nuclear Medicine etc. This requires the ability to work with all staff users within the Hospital. The PACS system works with the county EHR, uses many other applications to integrate images using 3D tools along with making sure they have access to images and patient reports. This also includes excluding access and privileges to staff that doesn't need to see reports or

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.

At the same time, the future of radiology represents unprecedented opportunities and challenges for radiologists. The articles clarify some of the potential aspects for future growth with regard to the utilization of IT in radiology. For example, many image producers believe that the report is the significant work product. To these individuals, the images are solely for the use of the diagnostic interpreter. From this perspective, distribution of images is unnecessary. Although radiologists, for the most part, have embraced the sharing of images, other image producers, such as cardiologists and pathologists, have not. Overcoming this perceptual hurdle is necessary to implement a comprehensive enterprise imaging strategy. The technological revolution enabling PACS has also created platforms for teleradiology. Because radiologists no longer require proximity to clinical colleagues or patients, teleradiology makes care possible in remote locations where radiologists may not be physically

The organization I inspected for this undertaking is Texas Health Care Mobile Imaging. Texas Health Care Mobile Imaging has been serving the group since 2008. The target of Texas Health Care Mobile Imaging is to give the most astounding quality medical administrations to the patients and suppliers they serve. Texas Health Care Mobile Imaging serves more than 500 suppliers and offices all through out Weslaco and Texas. The organization has two primary divisions, imaging administrations and expert nursing administrations. The imaging administrations division offers coordinate advanced radiology, ultrasonically, vascular, and electrocardiogram administrations. The portable administrations incorporate the recommended examination, understanding by an authorized board-affirmed Radiologist or Cardiologist, charging, and conveyance of demonstrative pictures and last medical reports. The administrations are given in patient's home, workplaces,

Dr. Kalender-Rich, thank you for your perspective in how to best implement HER for Bright Road, within your arguments, your strengths are focus on the practicality as a requirement for conversion into a new system; this point is reinforced with your example of radiologist being able to look up current and updated notes about the patient they are about to scan, while the patient is being transported. As well as your view that this system would allow patients to move quickly through different areas of the hospital. I would agree that this type of technological advantage, would improve patient care, and facilitate the accuracy and continuity of patient documentation, without delaying patient care; as stated by …. “The introduction of mobile

You work for a small, local telecommunications company. In five years, the company plans to undertake a major upgrade to its servers and other IT infrastructure.

The first advantage, images that have been saved into PACS cannot be lost or misfiled and health care worker will not waste time looking for the missing data or film. The second advantage, PACS replaced the film image with the digital image. The third advantage, the digital image allows zooming on the image for better viewing. Lastly, images and information in PACS are available for access at any time in different locations inside or outside the hospital. Film image could only be available in one place at one time and will result in delayed patient diagnosis if it not directly available to the radiologist. Although the PACS is a useful technique it has some disadvantages, for example, the PACS cost is very high, also if the PACS is failed to work it is not possible to view image and it require a specialized person for maintenance and in order to read PACS reports a high-resolution monitor are required and they are too expensive. Security and patient information must be protected since PACS is a technology that archive data and transfer it with different department in the hospital. A secure system should be applied in PACS to be able to decrease the risk of accidents and destruction of data, and should prevent non-authorized people from accessing.