Swot Analysis : Health Information Management Systems

Health information management, also known as HIM, has been acknowledged as an allied health profession since 1928. HIM is a profession dedicated to the effective management of patient information and healthcare data needed to deliver quality treatment and care to the public. The original objective was to elevate the standards of clinical recordkeeping in hospitals, dispensaries, and other healthcare facilities (Sayles, 2014). Today HIM is known as the American Health Information Management Association or AHIMA. It still holds similar underlying purposes: to ensure the quality, confidentiality, and availability of health information across diverse organizations, settings, and disciplines (Sayles, 2014). HIM plays a critical role in the successful implementation of electronic health records and ensures that providers, healthcare organizations, and patients have access to the right health information when and where it is needed while maintaining the highest standards of data integrity, confidentiality, and security. It ensures compliance with legal mandates, but it has proven to be a challenge with the constant change in legislation and regulatory environment. Past surveys suggest that HIM plays some type of importance in accordance to HIPAA privacy and security compliance. In a 2006 AHIMA survey, members were asked about the progress of their organizations’ privacy and security compliance efforts. Margret Amatayakul & Mitch Work discuss those results in a 2007 journal article

SWOT-As we learned swot stands for strengths, weaknesses, organization, and tasks. This is used in all firms to make necessary changes. This is especially useful in healthcare organizations. The Hartford (2017, n.d.), states that ‘A SWOT analysis examines four aspects of performance that typically determine the success or failure of a company, employees or even an individual. It’s one task/variable to make a list of your company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It’s another task/variable to take that information and develop a plan of action,’ (The Hartford). In the healthcare setting where I volunteer once a week the area of improvement desperately needed is communication. This

A vital part of the strategic planning process is the (SWOC) analysis. SWOC stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Challenges. This information can be used to create ideas for strategic interventions that can shape and guide organizational decisions and actions designed to create public value (Bryson, 2004, pg. 124). Strategic planning is used to solve important issues within organizations. It can help organizations build on strengths and take advantage of major opportunities while overcoming or minimizing weaknesses and serious challenges (Bryson, 2004, pg. 27). Stakeholders and employees can provide detailed information for an SWOC analysis.

Strong Intro- During the Strong Intro, Bria did not include the client's name. We should use the client's name to personalize our call and begin to build rapport.

I would like to introduce you to Mary B. It is a fictitious name. She is 39 years old and has been a registered nurse for the last 15 years. Mary is married and has got two children aged 7 and 10 years old. She is a New Zealand European and was born in New Zealand. As a registered nurse Mary has been working in the hospital setting and the rest home. All her working life so far was connected to the elderly care. Her current role is a hospital nurse in the geriatric recovery ward. Most of Mary’s work is basic nursing care for elderly people (65 years old and over) after surgeries, rehabilitation. Also they provide palliative care for people in the end of their lives. Mary and her colleagues are involved in doing blood transfusions, wound

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBS) is considered the largest and most experienced insurance company in Illinois. BCBS was founded in order to provide healthcare to teachers at a reasonable cost. It services over 7 million people. Its mission is “To promote the health and wellness of members and communities through accessible, cost-effective, quality health care” (Blue Cross Blue Shield, 2012). Blue Cross Blue Shield provides its customers with affordable health care. The parent company is Blue Cross Blue Shield Association its signature tag is “Creating Healthier Communities,” BCBS does not have any investors and the customers are considered the investors of the company and essentially who BCBS answers to. This is an important factor because they do not have to keep investors interest in the forefront of decision making, but rather they have the interest of their client in mind. (Blue Cross Blue Shield, 2012) In 2013 the Chicago based company reported profits of 684.3 million dollars. The company employees over 17,000 people. “Blue Shield of Illinois fell well below the $1 billion mark for the first time since 2009, in part because the insurance giant is setting aside money to offset expected losses from the troubled rollout of Obamacare” (Wang, 2014). Despite this setback it continues to expand over various parts of the United States. BCBS

The health plan means any individual or group plan that provides, or pays the cost of, medical care. The health care provider means a provider of medical or health services. Health care clearinghouse means a public or private entity, ("Covered entity (hipaa)," 2005).

Implementation of Healthcare Information Technology potentially reduces cost yet, remains a continuous challenge. The adoption of improved healthcare infrastructure is compelling and significant barriers remain such as technical issues, cost, concerns about privacy and confidentiality, system interoperability and lack of well trained staff to lead the process (Palvia, Love, Nemati, & Jacks, 2012).

- When the client advises that he is in a hurry and can't speak with CR Servicing now, Andrew is sure to give the client the direct phone # to them. Good job!

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

Many patients’ lives have been saved and improved, due to the staff’s cutting edge innovative ideas for treatment. The rest of the services offered at Barnes-Jewish Hospital are all equally stunning in the quality of care provided to patients. Patrons can be sure to receive the most up-to-date care and will be attended by some of the best staff in the country. The hospital is dedicated in extending their outreach programs and providing services to the surrounding community (Barnes-Jewish Hospital, 1997-2012).

Hospitals in today’s world require organizations that have a variety of people on their boards. Hospitals are usually run by administrators, board of directors, and other departments. Each of the many tiers of the hospital organizations has varied goals and achievements that they wish to accomplish. This article is designed to discuss some of the strengths; weakness, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of the hospital organization (Roussel, 2013). Internal and external forces will be discussed as factors of influence upon the decision making body of the hospital. An example of a problem found in many hospitals, the threat of patient falls will be analyzed. This article hopes to give a better picture of hospital organizations,

Understanding how to use SWOT analysis is vital in any business industry but can be extra beneficial in the healthcare industry. Not any other industries have so many different impacts in the same way the healthcare industry does and this is because the healthcare industry must change as much as not only people change but also as much as technologies changes and taking this into consideration change is always taking place. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats can give great insight into how your organization is doing and where and what changes need to be made in order to do

Operational excellence is important in delivering quality education using functional areas such as learn and grow, look after customer, look after share holder and the business process to excel which are assessed using a balanced scorecard for their performance. A quantitative technique used with the supported tools in the decision analysis process for making in a situation where uncertainty exists. Strutledge can perform decision analysis using simple excel or OM tools which is a quantitative tool that organizes into a payoff table. The SWOT analysis is a quantitative tool used in the decision analysis to access the impact of adding a new MBA and other Master of Science courses.

Infosys is an IT consulting company based in India but primarily doing business with North American firms looking to outsource their IT needs. With the rise of the popularity in this form of business between the United States and India, there have been several political factors in both countries that will affect the way Infosys does business. In the US, President Obama made outsourcing a hot topic of his campaign platform. With speeches such as “Say no to Bangalore, yes to Buffalo” he is looking to provide incentives to American companies to keep all of their jobs on American soil, close tax loopholes and eliminate breaks given to companies that outsource to firms such as Infosys. On the flip side though, the US government is also looking to change immigration policies to restrict H-1B visas that would have previously allowed foreign skilled technical workers to be brought in to the US on work visas. While they won’t be eliminating them, they are seeking to restrict them which would force Infosys to hire employees from the US for any work they would be doing in the country and restricting the available talent pool. Meanwhile, the government in India is making changes of their own, particularly with reforming the tax code. To encourage the growth of the Software and Technology fields the Indian government had established significant tax breaks which are now coming to an end. In addition, they have