PI Team Case Study

To improve the performance, there need to be upgrades with the systems that the hospital uses to keep track of the patients information. I recommend using Epic as a tool to help keep all of the patient’s information confidential and easy to access with a click of a button. This will allow for every department to have access to a certain patient’s file whether to be from a doctor entering notes about the patient’s visit, to health insurance billing department making sure that copays and such are being paid and their accounts are kept up-to-date. The hospital governance plays an important role because of the need for funds to help keep the hospital. By providing more outside events to raise money for the hospital will be a great start to being able to fully provide for each patient that comes through Middlefield Hospital doors.

This experience is helpful in making this transition run smoothly. This is a very important job. She must make sure that the system chosen is appropriate for each department of the hospital. She must take all information provided by the other members of the team, to come to an educated decision as to which system is best.

The use of technology in HIM department works out well and effectively. Each patient who is new is assigned a unique medical record number and it always remains the same for the patient each time he/she want to get health care from this health care system. Another system

Organization barrier: due to astronomical cost associated with the implementation of the CPOE system, resistance might stem form top management team. Successfully CPOE implementation required a long term financial commitment, and return of on invested might not be visible in the near future. Additionally, organization barriers are complex, and it will require redesigning the entire workflow process of the entire healthcare organization. Hence, the success of the proposed change might lies with the acknowledgements of these barriers.

An information technology strategic plan developed by Langley Mason Health (LMH) aimed to empower health care consumers and healthcare workers to change data into information to expand services of the clinics as well as electronic medical records. However, there are insufficient funds for equipment, technology and routine maintenance for its facilities (Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2009). The hospital planned to construct several satellite locations and there are limited funds left yearly to spend on technology implementation and to purchase equipment. The LMH system had a delay in fully going live with computerized prescribers order entry (CPOE) because of many foreseen complications during the development (Wager, Lee & Glaser, 2009). While the issue of CPOE implementation is being resolved, pharmacy and nursing department is looking at the purchase of smart IV pump that will spend roughly half of the budget for the fiscal year. This paper discusses the case study about LMH, different views how LMH should proceed and how to mediate the two different views.

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Central Hospital in Tempe, Arizona decided to implement a computerized Medication Administration Record (MAR) into one of their small locations before rolling it out to the entire organization. Art Baxter, the Chief Information Officer in charge of Medical Information Systems (MIS) at Central Hospital assigned Kate Cohen, a programmer and analyst, as the Project Manager. Kate formed a project team but failed to include representatives from departments that were going to use the system. Unfortunately, the key stake holder/users did not have a seat at the table. Even though the

Dr. David Torchiana (Cardiac Surgeon) and Dr. Richard Bohmer (Quality Improvement Administrator) want to improve the process in the hospital by

The potential sources of the problem that most of the healthcare institutions are experiencing could be that the healthcare organizations have not trained its staff or employees on how to do data entry as well as protection of the data that contains the information of the treatment cost as well as services. For that reason, the organizations should always train its staff on how to do data entry process and protect the data from being accessed by the unauthorized persons who could manipulate the data. The supervisors of the healthcare organizations are then supposed to be monitoring and also reviewing the process of entering data. That is to avoid the data inputted into the system being inaccurate. Another possible problem that they

As a healthcare organization that focuses on continuous improvement it is time they consider adopting a new electronic record system in order to enhance patient

The article “The Importance of Medical Coding as it Applies to Big Data Trends in Healthcare” talked about the importance of medical coding in relation to hospital’s data systems. Medical coding is a numerical process that brings diagnoses and healthcare systems together. It allows hospitals, physician offices and clinics to share patient information via big data trends. The article stressed that having access to medical trends from many sources is a valuable tool for healthcare facilities. Medical coding specialists hold the most advanced position in the big data trend. The coding specialist holds the key to unlock the door to aid in the development of health systems. The medical coder helps to create a team approach bringing together the

In order to eliminate the inefficiencies witnessed in many public and private hospitals that serve a number of patients, an integrated approach to handling the daily workload is necessary. There is need for all departments within the hospital to work closely together in ensuring more effective and efficient service deliveries. In this paper, a planned change is going to be carried out involving designing a new system that incorporates all the departments within the hospital. This includes the surgery department, pediatrics department, dentistry department, nursing department, pharmacy departments, laboratory and testing department, X-ray and Physiotherapy departments, Equipment maintenance and Engineering department, Information Technology

The Riverview Children’s Hospital is eight months behind schedule with the implementation of a new computerized financial system. Management wants the system to be in place by the end-of-year audit [April], which is only six weeks away. However, management estimates that there is only a fifty percent chance that the system will function correctly if its implementation is rushed. While this makes a case for delaying the implementation, it also pushes the schedule into another fiscal year, bringing a large set of expenses over with it. The board wants to avoid this. A decision must be made that weighs the pros and cons of pursuing implementation before the audit versus the delay of the implementation until after the

Currently, in the 21st century, we face a multitude of problems regarding the safety and well being of our environment and ecosystem as a whole. For hundreds of years, people have been creating energy, unaware of the irreversible damage and the harmful effects it can have such as climate change and the greenhouse effect. Because of this, people have begun to stray away from the burning of fossil fuels and now rely deeply on renewable energy sources such as sunlight and wind. But with all these more modern ways of manufacturing energy becoming increasingly much more popular, nuclear energy has controversially become an option for many areas in the United States and also the world. This form of energy production has various different advantages such as its proficiency against fossil fuels and low pollution. Despite this, nuclear energy, in fact, is more harmful to the globe as it has many safety concerns and creates issues of where to dispose of nuclear waste.

A man on death row is being put to rest even after evidence has proving that he did not commit the crime he was sentenced for. The death penalty is unconstitutional; the due process clause of the Fifth and Four Tenth Amendments says that no person shall be deprived of life without due process law. “One argument states that the death penalty does not deter murder. Dismissing capital punishment on that basis requires us to eliminate all prisons as well because they do not seem to be any more effective in the deterrence of crime (Lowe). Capital Punishment has its positive view points and its negative view points.