Shareable Ink

Two of these barriers are lack of interoperability (the ability to exchange information) among computer systems and privacy issues. The Markle Foundation fosters collaboration in both private and public sectors through an initiative called Connecting to Health, which seeks to improve patient care by promoting standards for electronic medical information. In addition, the Markle Foundation has provided information and promoted meaningful use and the development of HIEs

In the hectic and harried environment of a hospital, a nurse or technician does not have to search for an available workstation when they can pull up an individual chart on their tablet. Medical personnel can expect to access medical records more frequently and faster than traditional paper and folder charting models. “Location no longer creates a barricade to patient data. Role-based roaming and printing means better access to records from multiple locations. Many different devices, such as tablets and mobile phones, are supported.” 3

The information sharing document is often patient-centered. This means that the patient is in relation to each type of material in rotation. In fact, when a document having the patient’s information is going around in different health information systems, it is vital in guaranteeing that all the systems are referring to the patient in question. Therefore, this type of

Over the past decade, virtually every major industry invested heavily in computerization. The heath care industry was no exception to the rise in the use of technology. These technologies are starting to allow health care practitioners to offer faster, and more efficient patient care than ever before. No doubt this is the right direction we expect health care to follow.

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.

Several advancements have been made in healthcare technology, from the highly-awaited ICD-10 coding to HIE and general interoperability projects. California has been a pioneer in leading efforts in this space, and is home to some of the best hospitals in the nation. As a consultant, I had the opportunity to work with one such innovative organization, Sutter Health, that serves over 100 Northern California communities.

The product that I chose to use is the virtual physician visit. This visit would be structured to finance standard care for any patient with trivial sicknesses.Patients would be able to log onto a specified website where they would be able to openly communicate with a physician. After logging in and connecting with a physician, the patient would be able to communicate the symptoms that they are experiencing to the physician via instant messaging or leaving an email and waiting until a physician can respond to their concerns. This will allow the physician to make a

Technology is changing the way healthcare is delivered. Palms West Hospital and all of HCA hospitals are making every effort to exceed patient’s expectations with a variety of technology and different information systems. Some of the services offered by HCA East Florida Hospitals include Patient Portal, which gives instant access to patient’s health information. This service is accessible 24/7 and lets patient’s lab/radiology reports, medication instructions, discharge summaries, automatic bill pay, health libraries, registering for classes and even upcoming patient appointments with HCA affiliated physician offices. JFK Hospital offers both Cyber Knife for tumors and Robotic Surgery for Urology, Gynecology, and General Surgery.

Hugh Savagè has liver cancer. Chemotherapy failed, surgery failed. In a last ditch attempt to save his own life, Hugh signs up for a miracle trial using nanotechnology. In this trial, the widely-used chemotherapy drug Epirubicin was attached to nanodiamonds (carbon structures with a diameter of about five nanometres) to cultivate a nanodiamond-Epirubicin drug delivery complex (EPND). Researchers have found that while both the usual Epirubicin and EPND are capable of killing normal cancer cells, only EPND is capable of killing chemo resistant cancer stem cells and preventing secondary tumour formation in xenograft models of liver cancer.

George and his researchers have applied for a patent on the compound. They are now working toward the goal of getting a pharmaceutical company to develop and put out the compound in the next five years.

In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Health Information Technology (HITECH) act provision was passed into law. Billions of dollars was allocated by the federal government to provide financial incentives to hospitals and healthcare providers who will implement health information technology and electronic health records. HITECH seeks to improve American health care delivery and patient care through an unprecedented investment in Health Information Technology (HIT) (healthit.gov). Technology is changing fast and the use of digital technology has transformed the way people exchange and use information. Laptops, smartphones, tablets, and other digital devices are now the main tools that people use to create and send information. In order to cope up with these changes, the healthcare industry must adapt the use of technology to record, store and exchange information.

You have good points mentioning how gamification can go wrong if it is not implemented in the right way. I completely understand what you mentioned about Sears. Sadly, that is how sometimes businesses work, employees cheat the system to increase their numbers into the gamification game. However, this is not the point. Gamification is meant to increase sales and employees productivity.

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Gamification is the concept of Applying games mechanics and game designs to enjoy and motivate people to achieve their goals. It is exactly an application of game design element and game principle in non – game context. Gamification is a theory which is bound on mathematics that seeks to understand why an individual make a particular decision and how decision made by individual affect others.Gammification used by businesses to change the behavior of customer and employees. So it is one of the hottest trends in human resources.

The first level of gamification is about the basic game elements. It teaches how to use or apply the game elements, such as game-design techniques in non-game contexts. It is a set of new business techniques which can leverage games for business benefits. These practices are involved in the game techniques in all areas of business actibvities. There are three non-game approaches are introduced at the first level of gamification. These approaches are internal gamification, external gamification and behavior-change gamification. The internal gamification consists of two characteristics, such as the players are part of a defined community and the motivational dynamics of gamification must interact with the existing management of the company or organization. The external gamification involves in current customers or prospective customers of the company or organization. It is