St Peter 's Healthcare Partners : Integration Through Technology

The healthcare industry consists of many strengths and weaknesses during the improvement of patient safety, efficient operations, reduction of medical errors, and ensuring that they provide timely access to all patient information. This will have to still comply with all legal guidelines as they control costs and protect patient privacy. The adoption of advanced information technology is a popular strategy being used in the healthcare industry because it allows their weaknesses to be progressively diminished as they gain and use the opportunities necessary as an analytical tool. This would allow their capabilities to be further developed with the new technologies and processes used as they unify the adoption of IT standards. In order to stay competitive within the healthcare industry, then there must be specific actions and measures that must be taken to ensure a positive outcome. This includes external opportunities to increase the capability of the IT infrastructure in a national environment as the growth of industry standards are met in order to decrease the pressured threats of legal compliance through patient trust and the high cost of IT. The growing recognition of strategic leadership often leads to both improved financial stability and contact accessibility of the system. Some challenges that may occur within the healthcare system may cause issues in a hospital setting because of the centralized society of an organization. This is because of the different visions and

Athenahealth is an organization which understands that in today’s health care market, organizations can become overwhelmed with overly wasteful and disorganized administrative systems. Athenahealth is aware that these outdated systems can sometimes impede quality of care. However, their organization strives, as a single entity, to address these concerns by becoming the nation 's premier health care systems provider and empowering patients to be as actively involved in their care as they want to be. Their open technology platforms readily support improvement by providing consistent innovation and encouraging others to become a part of their mission. Their company is tirelessly developing new tools and services for the benefit of everyone involved with the health care field.1

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

Hospital. Successful transition to lCD-10--CM and ICD-10-PCS requires careful strategic planning and coordination of resources across the entire hospital. Planning for lCD-10 must engage executive leadership, particularly since the coordination challenges span across a wide range of functional areas, including finance, information services, decision support, compliance and the medical staff. Business areas that make up the hospital setting may include: (a) Information systems including health information systems and ancillary departments; (b) Financial services in accounts receivable, billing, and finance; (c) Medical management comprised of medical records, quality/mortality and morbidity data, patient care units, and clinical affairs; and (d) Patient access for admissions, registration, scheduling, and insurance verification.

Acclimating the hospital workflow to the clinic environment can be like fitting a square peg into a round hole. The high volume, high velocity clinic environment is unique from the hospital environment, pushing IDNs to find a solution that can meet the distinct ambulatory demands while still integrating with the hospital system. Each specialty clinic has unique needs and complexities — multiple locations, a wide range of diagnoses and treatment protocols — that demand independent workflows. At the same time, each clinic must be integrated into the whole for communication across the continuum of care.

The acquisition of an information technology (IT) system by a healthcare organization must incorporate several different concerns. Generally, there is a process by which the organization determines what functions and capabilities are essential for the new IT system to provide. Much of that concern is dictated by specific goals of the organization, its mission, and the operational elements of the organization. Most importantly, the organization must consider the varied interests and needs of all of its stakeholders in relation to the new IT system.

Choosing your platform: With many diverse styles of computer systems found with a health care facility finding an application that can integrate across multiple healthcare organizations is

With the rapid growth in technology, many healthcare organizations have embraced the use of healthcare information technologies. As such, the information technology department has various staffs that perform fundamental roles in the information technology-related activities. It ranges from activities of customizing a software to implementing and maintaining a network to ensure effective system backups. In addition, these healthcare information technologies bring about other

The intent of conducting this SLP was to discover and reveal the access of quality medical care that Southwest General delivers to its patients through use of the CareView system. A recent surgery hospitalization for my husband introduced me to what I hold to be an evolutionary patient care product, the CareView system. Since I was intrigued by all the features the system had to offer, this SLP was the perfect opportunity to conduct research on the CareView system. My overall expectation in conducting this SLP was to gather knowledge on how the latest hi-tech options in patient monitoring systems not only connects patients, families and healthcare providers, but most importantly, how it delivers quality medical care.

Like most large corporations today, St. Peter’s Healthcare Partners relies heavily upon technology and the people who create and use those techniques. There are many systems used throughout the organization. In 2011 when the unprecedented three-way merger took place involving the above mentioned St. Peter’s Hospital, Northeast Health and Seaton Health,

Implementing a new system into a healthcare environment is not a simple process. There are many issues and concerns that will need to be considered, not only the positive adoption by the users of the system, but also ensuring that a new system will positively impact the future of the Mifflin-Dunder Regional Hospital. Often businesses struggle to align their imposed BI system with their business objectives, and results in a system that is unable to meet business needs (Panian 2006). It is imperative that all stakeholders and end users of the system are completely aware of the capabilities of any new imposed system. Madsen (2011) determined that one of the key criteria before implementing and imposing a new solution is to have a cross functional

A best of suite strategy would an attractive choice for hospitals. Hospitals can still use its present administrative and financial systems, while progressively converting them into one clinically-oriented operational or departmental systems. Having a core foundation application suite in place allows for fewer workflow disruptions associated with electronic healthcare record implementations.

The variation in information needs across any healthcare provider organization forces healthcare information technologies (HIT) platforms, systems, processes and procedures to align its design to support the unique information needs of each department and role. The greater this alignment of HIT systems and technologies to specific administrator, doctor, nurse and lab technician roles, the higher the level of overall systems performance and results attained (Agrawal, Grandison, Johnson, Kiernan, 2007). Just as an enterprise has strategic information needs that help to define the future direction of the business, healthcare provider organizations also have a comparable set of strategic information needs. The administrative roles in healthcare providers need to have a consolidated view of the organization from a cost, quality management, service level, patient recovery rate, patient satisfaction and profitability standpoint as well (Middleton, 2005). All of these factors are often gathered together in a dashboard that administrators often rely on to manage the core areas of their healthcare business (Leung, 2012). Administrator's information needs are also longer term in nature and more oriented towards the development of strategic initiatives that will last several years, requiring

The successful implementation and subsequent meaningful use of information technology solutions within a health care organization is a challenging and iterative process. The organization must engage in careful and ongoing strategic and tactical planning to ensure that the implemented technology will ultimately be effective and beneficial for its practitioners, staff, and patients.

PH’s patchwork IT infrastructure is in critical condition, so it has major IT infrastructure problems. CEO of PH Max Berndt is trying to find the right solution. He has an option to go with a single set of systems and applications (Monolithic System) that will provide consistency across PH’s facilities but may not give doctors enough flexibility or he can choose service-oriented architecture (SOA), a modular design that will allow PH to standardize incrementally and selectively but poses certain risks as a newer technology.