...Engineering United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Technology & Development Program June 2000 7100 0071-2322-MTDC Choosing Computerized Maintenance Management Systems for Facility Management Wes Throop, Project Leader What is CMMS? and special tools for individual jobs. A CMMS installed on a computer network can be used to manage the maintenance of several remote facilities from a central location. The ability to track historical costs and project future maintenance expenses make a CMMS useful for budgeting. A Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is a software package that can track, schedule, and organize facility maintenance. It can include equipment history and inventory and also generate work and purchase orders. For very small facilities, paper records may be adequate. For more complex operations, a CMMS can be an invaluable tool for a facilities manager. A CMMS is not intended to replace or duplicate the Forest Service’s INFRA database. Instead, it is a tool to organize, schedule, and track the details of day-to-day facilities management. Many CMMS software packages are available. This Tech Tip is designed to help you select the best system for your particular operation. Selecting a CMMS Why Use a CMMS? A CMMS can keep track of past repairs, schedule future maintenance, and provide a ready list of vendors and parts sources. It can be used to generate detailed work orders for maintenance personnel. These work orders can contain specific...
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...& Facility Management Ch. 9 case study Mrs. Etzkorn CMMS is an abbreviated term for computerized maintenance management systems and are a type of management software program that perform functions in support of the operations and maintenance (O&M) programs. The software automates and streamlines most of the logistical functions done by O&M staff (U.S. Department of Energy). “Typical CMMS functions depend on the complexity of the system chosen. Examples include: * Work order generation, prioritization, and tracking by equipment and/or component. Work orders often can be sorted by equipment, date, person responding, etc. * Tracking scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activities. * Storing technical documentation and maintenance procedures by component, as well as equipment warranty information. * Real-time reports of ongoing work activity. * Calendar- or run-time-based preventive maintenance work order generation. * Capital and labor cost tracking by component, as well as shortest, median, and longest times to close a work order by component. * Complete parts and materials inventory control with automated reorder capability” (U.S. Department of Energy). The best CMMS benefit is that it eliminates paperwork and manual tracking of activities and saves time and allows the staff to remain productive. Computerized maintenance management system would allow the school to detect problems before a failure occurs, resulting in fewer failures...
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...Business owners have a lot to keep track of, especially in industries where equipment and maintenance is key, like hospitals, hotels, warehouses and transportation companies. Maintenance management software (MMS) or enterprise asset management (EAM) software can help monitor work orders, parts, repairs and more to make managing it all easier for your business. If you're looking in to purchasing maintenance management software, here are 10 providers to consider. Bigfoot CMMS Bigfoot CMMS (computerized maintenance management system) is a cloud-based maintenance management software that comes with two different package choices: Enterprise and Enterprise+. Bigfoot offers many features, including location and asset-based work orders, parts inventory, automatic e-mail alerts, cost-tracking and repair history and more. bigfootcmms.com eMaint eMaint offers four different subscriptions, from Standard, Self Starter and Get OnBoard to All In, each with a different level of services. Features include preventative maintenance, inventory management, up-to-the-minute reports with customizable KPIs (key performance indicators) and dashboards. emaint.com FaciliWorks FaciliWorks offers both Web-based and desktop CMMS management options. With FaciliWorks, you can submit, queue and manage work orders and service requests, group assets by department and location, optimize your spare parts inventory and more. cybermetrics.com HippoFM HippoFM is a Web-based maintenance management...
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...our patients. There are a number of ways to do that, including purposeful rounding, treating patients as a whole rather than just diagnoses, providing family and patient centered care, etc. One important action that can be taken to better the quality of care is through the use of our ever changing, always advancing, technology. Years ago, when computer systems did not exist, we did what we could to provide the best care we could, with the most efficient communication, charting, etc. Today, with the use of our advancing technology, we have the ability to use computerized management systems for efficiency, proficiency, and increased quality of care. The various aspects of using computerized management systems in the healthcare setting, including the efficiency, privacy, and cost will be discussed. How Computerized Management Systems Increase Quality of Care It is not easy to give up old habits and pick up new ones and it is certainly not easy to do that in the healthcare setting when people's lives are under our control. Computerized management systems are the use of technological advances such as computers and handheld devices to gather and input data on each patient entering and exiting your care. The use of this technology allows us, as physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to be more efficient when we document, search, input orders, etc. The epitome of nursing care is documenting care that has taken place and that we have performed for each patient. With...
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...Computerized physician order entry Virginia Okougbo HCS 533: Health Information System Professor: CHONG DALEIDEN Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) The computerized physician order entry also referred to as computerized provider order entry is an information structure utilized in many hospitals whereby physicians enter the medical practitioner instructions for the treatment of patients electronically (Yazer, 2013). The entered orders are communicated via a network of computers to the departments such as laboratories, pharmacy or radiology or to the medical staff that is responsible to fulfill the order. In this technology, a physician requests a service to be given to the patient in question by other medical staff in the same department or in other departments by entering the request into a computer system rather than in writing. Traditionally, the orders were made through handwriting and given to the patient who would provide them to the service provider. This technology is most useful in hospitalized patients has it provides the information on what to be done for each patient, therefore, eliminating the errors that may arise. The Computerized physician order entry is part of requirements of the electronic health records provided for in the health information technology for economic and clinic health (HITECH) Act (Teasdale, 2008). This act encourages and stimulates the use of electronic health records in American hospitals to provide quality and safe health...
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...2. CPOE stands for Computerized Physician Order Entry and is viewed as a key feature of an electronic health record that improves quality of care, clinician efficiency, and patient safety. CPOE systems can improve workflow processes in many different ways. There are many benefits to having a computerized physician order entry system. Workflow processes are improved because of the CPOE by the monitoring of duplicate orders, the generating of related orders, the prevention of lost orders, the elimination of errors due to illegible handwriting, the reduction of time spent filling the orders, the reduction of medication errors, and the improvement of clinician productivity. Computerized results improve the workflow process because they reduce lag time, which leaves more time for the clinician to recognize and treat the patient’s medical problems. Another improvement due to computerized results is they are more easily accessible than paper reports at the time and place they are needed. These improvements are to the benefit of the patient. Computerized Provider Order Entry can protect the patient by the reduction of medication errors of dose, drug allergies, and drug to drug interactions. With the CPOE system if there are any allergies or interactions detected, an alert comes up to the pharmacist. The pharmacist then contacts the clinician and fixes the problem before anything bad could happen to the patient. These alerts could actually...
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...provide traditional medical care and preventive medicine Objective : to ensure that patients are in healthy and fit condition Employee : 17 Patient base : 3500 1.2 Company Background Dr. Wilson Chen and Dr. EdryYussof are the founders of Northern Health Clinic which they combined their individual practices five year ago and form the Clinic. The clinic located at the busiest section of the Jitra town in the new shopping mall. NHC’s activities focus on preventive medicine to help patient maintain health and fitness by providing traditional medical care. There are 17 staffs in Northern Health Clinic include 3 nurses, 4 physical therapists, 4 doctors and 6 office staff workers. Currently, NCH has a patient base of 3500 person, most of them provide insurance coverage for employee wellness and health maintenance. 1.3 Current system of the company The current system that used by the Northern Health Clinic is manual system. Each of the six office staff people has their responsibility in particular work area. One of the employee is handles office payroll, tax reporting and profit distribution among the associates. Another one handles most of paperwork concerning insurance reporting and accounting. For the third employee, he is responsible in appointment book, and her duties include making reminder calls to patients and preparing daily appointment lists. Besides that, all six office workers are helping recording patient's...
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...based on two well-known systems for computerized charting in the medical field. These two vendors are known as, EPIC and McKesson. In the next few pages, I will be comparing these two vendors; and at the end of this project I will choose which one I would not mind being associated with or using in the future. I will be analyzing how these systems can improve quality of care for patients, how hand-held devices can or cannot help the medical professionals, how the computerized systems can help nurses, but also how these systems can possibly increase and improve patient involvement of care. Computerized management systems can amazingly increase the quality of patient care, as well as safety for the patients. Electronic Medical Records aid nurses in being able to identify if a patient may have an allergy to a medication that will be given. As a nurse, you may not always know if a certain antibiotic is in the same class as an allergy that the patient may have. If the patient does have an allergy, there will be a warning that will pop up for you to view. If the provider approves this patient to have the medication, it may be given, but the pop up is there for patient safety and for the nurse’s own awareness as well. These systems can also help increase quality of care because they will make the patients feel safer. When in nursing school you are always taught the six rights of medication administration. When using the computer charting system, you will definitely follow...
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...Current facilities ICT has to offer in Medicine 2.0 Monitoring Patients 2.0.1 In the case of when a patient is hospitalized, they often need careful care and monitoring closely. Which is something, not possible for both nurses and doctors to do as keeping a check on the patients 24/7 continuously is very time consuming and both doctors and nurses have other patients and work to attend to. So, as an alternative computerized monitors are used, where patients are connected to a sensor which receives and sends information about the condition & status of the patient to the computerized monitor. Some of the things which the sensors monitor are Pulse rate (Heart beats per minute), Temperature, Breathing rate (Breaths per minute), Blood oxygen levels...
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...and Communication Individual Assignment No 2 Case Analysis Report on ‘The Quality Improvement Customers Didn’t Want’ Submitted by Name: Roll No: Section: Institute of Management, Nirma University August 14, 2012 Executive Summary Quality Care is a health maintenance organization and has been occupying third position in the health care industry for quite some time. The recent trend of installing computer systems in the health care organizations has put Quality care in a confusing state where it has to decide whether to follow the trend or stick to the traditional methods. Quality Care has to look out for customer satisfaction and retention, quality of the service provided and market position. It can install the systems at a few locations for testing, or conduct surveys in organizations where the systems have already been installed, or provide a comfortable working environment or simply avoid the new technology. This can be achieved by simply adopting the new computerized systems at a few locations and after testing them implementing at the rest of the locations. Situational Analysis Quality Care, a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), is currently at the third position in the Health Care industry preceded by Health Care One in the first position and MediCenters in the second position. Quality Care, just like Health Care One, is a staff model HMO which...
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...Health care information system terms Medical paper records are a thing of the past, and health care settings are utilizing a computerized health care information system to provide efficient care. The computerized health care information system is computers and electronic applications “which” provides documents of medical care. However, within the healthcare information system there are terms “which “must be identified for the system to be ran successfully. The most common health care information system terms includes several types of healthcare record such as electronic medical records, electronic health record, and computerized physician order entry. This paper will describe health care information system terms and how the system must adhere to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ACT The Health Insurance portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a public law enacted by congress in 1996, which consist of two title parts. The first title consists of the act” which” protects workers and their families from losing health coverage when a change or loss of job takes place. The second is the establishment of national standards for electronic health record as well as national identities for health care providers, health insurance plans, and employers. The second part of the HIPAA act also protects the privacy and security of a patient’s health information “which”...
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...maintain disclosure of medical records which includes maintaining privacy rules on disclosure of patient information and identity. Privacy and security needs to be maintained in other to protect the services of patients, reducing ethics violations, sustaining corporate integrity as well as to increase patient satisfaction. The health care setting in which HIPPA will be used is all healthcare settings, such as hospitals, clinics, pharmacy, insurances and HMO’S. All healthcare professionals must obey all HIPPA rules and regulations to avoid penalties (Mir 2011). Privacy and security needs to be maintained in other to protect the services of patients, reducing ethics violations, sustaining corporate integrity as well as to increase patient satisfaction. Electronic Medical Record An electronic record can be defined as a health or medical information of a particular patient or individual which is generated, and taking care of by authorized healthcare professionals or health care organization. The health care setting that uses electronic medical record is hospital, physician’s office, and medical health professionals. They input the medical records such as diagnosis, test results and past records of treatment and drugs in the computerized system for safe keeping and follow up. Electronic Health Record An electronic record can be defined as centrally health information of a patient or particular individual who can be verify widely as well as recognized by national standards...
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...charting to computerized health records. In doing this, we will meet our goal of compliance with meaningful use legislation. We assembled a team of members to assist with this task and together we have narrowed the search to two health care systems. Those two systems are EPIC and Meditech and we will now discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each, with a final recommendation for our new healthcare system. Identification and Roles of Team Members/Expertise The first person on this team is the acute care nurse manager. The acute care nurse manager is a bachelor prepared nurse and is beneficial to this team because of her close relationship with staff nurses. She will have input from floor nurses and be able to contribute important information about charting from the nursing standpoint. The nurse manager will be able to assist with questions that staff nurses may have during implementation and training. This member is able to discuss what the nursing staff needs for adequate charting. She will be able to look at each computerized system and contribute a nurses point of view. The second team member will be the chief medical officer. The physician has the input from other doctors and will be able to answer questions for other doctors during training and implementation. This doctor is familiar with several computerized management systems and will be able to contribute inside information about each system. He will be able to compare each physician ordering system to help decide...
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...Post Week 1 Health Care Information Systems Terms HCS/483 Healthcare Information Systems - Week 1 Name: Guidelines: Please use this form to submit your assignment and NOT the one on the UOPX website. Define the following terms. Your definitions must be in your own words; do not copy them from the textbook. After you have defined each term in your own words, describe in at least 50 words the health care setting in which each term would be applied. Utilize a minimum of two research sources to support your claims—one from the University Library and the other from the textbook. Be sure to cite your sources in the References section consistent with APA guidelines. This assignment is due Week One. 1. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Definition This was a federal law placed to protect patient information. How Used in Healthcare HIPAA is used to safeguard and protect patient information and without the use of HIPAA, private patient information could be exposed. HIPAA is critical because it could have an effect on health care workers, patients and the health care facility as well. Violation of HIPAA laws could cause a health care worker to lose their job, it could violate a patient’s rights, and it could damage the facility’s credibility. 2. Electronic medical record Definition An electronic medical record is a computerized medical record used to store patient information. How Used in Healthcare Electronic medical records...
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...CPOE Systems and ADE Prevention Strategies Mikki Dowling Grantham University 08/09/2015 CPOE Systems and ADE Prevention Strategies Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), is a process of electronic entry of medical practitioner instructions for the treatment of patients (particularly hospitalized patients) under his or her care. These orders are communicated over a computer network to the medical staff or to the department responsible for fulfilling the order (Inpatient Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE), 2015). Benefits of the CPOE include: -Standardized orders that improve response time and avoid scheduling problems and conflict with existing orders. -The CPOE includes a display of the patient's medical history and current results and evidence-based clinical guidelines to support treatment decisions. -The CPOE system allows for real-time patient identification, drug dose recommendations, adverse drug reaction reviews, checks on allergies, and test or treatment conflicts. -Physicians and nurses can review orders immediately for confirmation. -Access is secure, and a permanent record is created, with electronic signature. -The system accepts and manages orders from any location in the health system, through a variety of devices, including wireless PCs and tablet computers (Inpatient Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE), 2015). The benefits are the main reasons why CPOE has the advantage over paper orders, especially with them being more secure because...
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