Quinte Mri Facility Case Summary

Quinte MRI, Inc. is a small international provider specializing in a variety of medical technologies including MRI. Quinte MRI’s founder, Dr. Syed Haider believes that the residents of smaller communities deserve the same level of health services as the residents of the larger urban centers. Quinte MRI is experiencing difficulty in meeting the expectations of 2 scans per hour. As a result, productivity is declining and they losing the referral of many of their colleagues. The process is creating a lot of variability and uncertainties that Quinte MRI are dealing with. Solving the issue of the “bottleneck” will make the operation more effective and manageable.

In the current fast paced world there is a huge demand for health care services administrators and also there is tremendous weight on them to enhance the productivity to match up the demand. Effective appointment organizing system is the determination of patient’s satisfaction and timely access to health services. The measure of efficiency depends upon many factors like investment on equipment, resources allocation and number of trained staff. The principal type of patient appointment encounters are primary care, specialty care, elective surgeries and these are again subdivided into scheduled and unscheduled visits. Each of these environments has certain unique features which makes making appointments troublesome and also diminishes efficiency and has two major access delays Indirect and Direct.

Since the optical imaging system makes the medical record concurrently available via the web or server, most of coders and chart analysis staff can work at home. Individual working from home must meet productivity and quality standards before this privileged is granted and retention of staff is very good. Contract coders are also able to coder remotely. This does decrease their cost and ensure quality of coding while at the same time emphasizing the volume.

Jones Regional Medical Center is a huge academic health center with 900 beds and are known for its research and teaching hospitals. Additionally, the IT staff at Jones supports 300 applications and 12,000 workstations. The center uses Technology Med (TechMed) for their admitting system. The system includes registration, inpatient charge, payment entry, master patient index, admission, hospital billing, and more. The TechMed system has been accessible since 1998; Jones is beginning to plan a replacement of this systems because of the fragility of the software (Wager, 2013).

How Information System’s Assist: The facility states that it offers their physicians and patients access to the “latest high-tech imaging services, digital medical technology and specialized equipment.” This equipment includes the use of digital radiology imaging, digital echocardiograms and digital cardiac catheterization. The facility also uses an Electronic Medical Record system, which they claim enhances patient safety and maximizes physician connectivity. Having this equipment helps the facility differentiate itself from its

The current backlog is caused by the increasing demand for MRI scans in Adelaide County, the inconsistent capacity of the MRI machine, the sole MR technologist and the inefficient scheduling process. Obviously there is a much higher demand of scans that the limited capacity of the MRI machine and the only one MR technologist can complete. The rated capacity of the MRI machine was two patients per hour but the actual number of scans in any period of time depended on the types of exams being performed. A typical exam takes from 30-45 minutes although some exams could be completed in 10 minutes. 25% of the scans usually require a contrast (more detailed image) which is projected to take 15 extra minutes on average.

2-B. The recommendation for Time-Out to be incorporated into the electronic medical records assumes the hospital is using an EMR. Even so, it will take co-operation with the medical records staff at the minimum and perhaps the IT department. 6 months may be too soon. At the minimum, a progress report will be due in 6 months and a new due date

I also believe that patients are not being properly screened prior to arrival which is causing Quinte MRI losses in revenue and time. If a patient turns up and has to be turned away, or rescheduled for misdiagnosis there is a resulting disruption in the flow of patients which will impact the schedule and process and ultimately the pocket and reputation of the company. Further, it appears that the technologist is engaged in performing pre-screening services and this is a highly paid employee who should not be pre-screening patients. This tasked could best be left to a lower paid trained staff.

DOI: 12/3/2012. The patient is a 49-year-old male route sales representative who sustained a work-related injury to his lumbar spine and shoulders while lifting a bread rack out of his truck. Patient is status post bilateral L4-5 laminotomy, complete facetectomy and foraminotomy on 01/14/15.

There is significant demand for MRI scans in the United States. The annual scan rate is approximately 68 per 1000 people. It is anticipated that the demand for MRI scans in Adelaide County will continue to grow at approximately 15 percent per year. In addition, the Cancer rate of Adelaide County is higher than the national average, making this partnership with BCMC a sustainable business decision for Quinte.

System is very easy to use and covers many Radiology and Pharmacy procedures and treatments across United states

The first opportunity for Texas Health Care Imaging is the business slant with the development towards coordinating computerized imaging and electronic restorative records. The move in the medical services industry is consistently acknowledged to advance toward an electronic restorative record and part of that includes a total digital solution of imaging examinations. U.S. Federal government regulations are forcing the industry towards direct digital imaging solutions by 2017 to maintain current Medicare reimbursement rates. The “Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 (American, 2016) will reduce Medicare reimbursement rates by 30% for any non-direct digital radiology imaging. Texas Health Care Imaging arrangements are for the most part

team due to its impact on both patient quality and employee productivity. Another plan developed by the QI team that required an immense analysis of it’s cost-benefit-quality balance is the implementation of the Electronic Health Records across all facilities and departments of the hospital. The cost to implement such a powerful system that can improve the productivity of the entire hospital is enormous. However, it’s ability to streamline information across all departments and facilities within the hospital provides a lot of benefits that will eventually increase the quality of care delivered to patients and the productivity of employees. A reduction in silos among

Recently, Condition of Admission forms are required to be scanned into the document system instead of being filed into the paper records. The deadline is to scan within a day of the patient’s visit. We had an incident where we were overwhelmed with forms. We had to work as a team that resembles an assembly line in order to complete the task.

Tracking time in the work environment can prove to be decrease time wasted. With the necessary documentation needed for billing will result in simple process needed to bill efficiently. Seiso or sweep can assist with allotting the proper time necessary for every patient and the activity or therapy indicated (Mahalik, n.d.). Standardizing the form needed for billing will decrease billing errors. Sustaining