...Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Healthcare According to the information found on the book and in the text provided for the assignment GSI combines layers of geographically referenced information about the Earth surface. GSI does this by collecting data, which is stored in a database that is then analyzed and used to create a visual representation of data in the form of a map. This process can be used in a lot of different fields of profession from catching criminals to medical and emergency management. By examining geographical healthcare data, hospital and public health officials are able to plan strategically to increase accessibility to services, prevent future outbreaks, and to make finer decisions for patients. Every patient in healthcare needs an examination, diagnosis, and treatment. Clinic and hospital officials and practitioners need to be aware and understanding of their nearby communities because that is where most of their patients are. GSI can help decide where to place new facilities, where and when to intervene, how to improve the quality of care as well as increasing accessibility of services, and most importantly what types of services to emphasize., this is can be labeled as interactive mapping and strategic planning. GSI is a huge asset to the public health and nursing management communities. Through the use of this process, a nurse case manager can locate the surrounding community resources that are in proximity to their patients. Some of these...
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...Affects of IT on the Healthcare Industry Laboratory Information System (LIS) There has been numerous technological advances in the past decade that have affected the healthcare industry. With the networking and communication systems development, the amount of information exchanged between healthcare professionals has also risen dramatically. IT has had a significant impact on the healthcare delivery system in all areas and it is believed that it will continue to do so into the next century. In this research, I will only discuss the Laboratory Information System (LIS) and also briefly explain the Hospital Information System (HIS), that are being used in the healthcare industry. Laboratory Information System A laboratory information system (LIS), is a type of software that handles receiving, processing and storing information generated by Medical laboratory processes. These systems must interface with instruments/analyzers and other information systems such as hospital information systems (HIS). An LIS is a highly configurable application which is customized to facilitate a wide variety of laboratory workflow models. Deciding on an LIS vendor and installing of an LIS software could take a lab from a few months to a few years, depending on the complexity of the organization. LIS’s are complex software applications. There are as many variations of LIS’s as there types of lab work. Disciplines of laboratory science include many aspects such as hematology...
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...Terms Shaun W. VanDevender HCS/533– Health Information Systems Professor Derrick Dugeon September 1, 2014 Definition of Terms Technology has greatly changed health care in many different ways. This change has been gradual, progressing over several years; it has been very profound, nevertheless. Understanding these changes is important for experienced health professionals and newcomers alike. The following paragraphs will provide some definitions for the following important abbreviations: AMR, CMR, CMS, CMS-1500, CPT, DRG, EPR, HL7, ICD-9, and UB-92. In addition, the importance of each term will be discussed. AMR According to Techtarget.com an ambulatory medical record (AMR) is an electronically stored file of a patient’s outpatient medical records, which includes all surgeries and care that do not involve being admitted to a hospital. An AMR is similar to an electronic medical record (EMR) but while EMRs keep track of inpatient care (surgeries and care that require spending overnight or longer in a hospital), AMRs only apply to medical procedures and care that do not result in an overnight stay in a hospital or that are given in non-hospital settings such as urgent care clinics, physicians’ offices and at-home medical care. AMRs assure that patients receive appropriate care. AMRs provide clinicians information they need to get a complete picture of the patients health. In addition, consumers can use the health information in the AMR to better communicate with providers...
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...In the healthcare field the wireless technology is being used extensively, with a broad assortment of situation. The Wi-Fi exposure has to be accessible from the emergency room all the way to the pediatric ward over to the intensive care unit, with every location containing different requirements as well as deliberation (Buck, C., 2012). Having a huge wireless network permits the providers to deploy technology at the bedside, as part of the normal health care flow. The providers are able to use a smart phone to access clinical data as well as biomedical devices are able to record and manage patient information. However, it has been researched that by the year of 2014 there will be 5.7 million patients that will be monitored with a wireless medical devices. The wireless network is a key when using medical radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to keep track of medical equipment throughout a hospital (Five steps to effective wirelessnetworking in…). In addition, it is able to give a boost to patient satisfaction, it will allow the patient and the visitors to use the WI-Fi while they visit the hospital. The network utilization between the hospital and offices mainframe would be that the IBM’s technology offers considerably huge servers within a distinguishing strength conducting a large amount of transactions as well as input/output operations in parallel (Network Management, 2013). However, the mainframe is accomplished by serving a huge numbers of network nodes...
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...Development of Hospital Information Systems: A deeper look at What goes on First, I would like to assessment the history of hospital information systems and how it has changed to the point where analytics is so important. When I have an opportunity to join the industry, which will be hopefully in 2016, I will see just so many of these changes that will occur, and I believe that a data warehouse, along with analytics tools, is a essential module of any CIO’s application portfolio. This might make more sense with some past viewpoints. They need to review the trends in health information systems decade by decade. I’ll list the main influence that was driving healthcare, then the driver for the IT, and finally the resulting health information technology (HIT) innovation: *1960s: The main healthcare drivers in this era were Medicare and Medicaid. The IT drivers were expensive mainframes and storage. Because computers and storage were so large and expensive, hospitals typically shared a mainframe. The principal applications arising in this environment were shared hospital accounting systems. *1970s: One of the main healthcare drivers in this era was the need to do a better job communicating between departments (ADT, order communications, and results review) and the need for discrete departmental systems (e.g., clinical lab, pharmacy). Computers were now small enough to be installed in a single department without environmental controls. As a result, departmental systems boomed. Unfortunately...
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...Abstract One might think that a hospitals soul operations is to provide doctors and nurses to assist patients with their sickness and diseases. However, there is a ton of operations and systems that go on in the background. At Patton-Fuller Community Hospital, they split up their business information systems in four ways. Patton-Fuller Community Hospital use this system to improve communication and collaboration between senior management, employees, doctors, nurses and patients. In addition, the current system is suppose to improve the efficiency of hospital operations, relationships with current and future patients, and assist senior executives in managing hospital finances. PFCH System Breakdown The current breakdown of the business information system is split between the following: Accounting and Finance Information System, Human Resources Information System, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Information System, Knowledge Management (KM) Information System. These four systems combine creates Patton-Fuller Community Hospital. The Accounting and Finance Information System; is primarily used by senior executives. The Patton-Fuller senior executives use this system to manage, cash flow, assets, liabilities, and net income. After all this information has been entered into this system PFCH has the ability to generate financial statements in which are requirements by federal regulations. For example, at the end of the month, someone from the PFCH team will enter in all...
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...conducted to analyse the role of information systems in supporting decision making process. For this purpose, role of different types of information systems such as, Management Information System (MIS), Decision Support System (DSS), Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP), Executive Information System (EIS), specifically agent-based information systems have been analysed in the different aspects of decision making process. For this purpose ten highly relevant journal articles have been selected and the body of this report is based upon the literature of those articles. From the research of this report, it is has been found out that different types of information systems facilitates managers working at different levels of organisations in making effective decision. It has been identified that organisations operate in highly vibrant and impulsive environment that changes rapidly. Based on these changes, executives and higher level managers have to make decisions accordingly. This decision making process requires a lot of subjective information about the external environment upon which decisions have to be made Annotated Bibliography 1. Ucakturk, A. & Villardb, M., 2013. The Effects of Management Information and ERP Systems on Strategic Knowledge Management and Decision-Making. Social and Behavioural Sciences, Vol 99, pp. 1035 – 1043. In this article, Ucakturk and Villardb have discussed the effects of management information and ERP systems on strategic knowledge management...
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...Information Briefing System Ebony Washington HCS 483 July 18, 2011 Kym Pfrank Information Briefing System Information Systems is a combination of individuals decision making activities used in combination with the new technology information. The information system will give a complete summary of what is involved in the information system, who is involved, and the type of software or hardware that is compatible with certain computers. Information systems are designed to help the organization meet the quality and standards that are set for the organization to succeed. With technology changing new software, hardware, and new ways of storing and protecting data which makes it difficult to keep up with. The content of this paper will allow you to identify the process for selecting and acquiring an information system, explain how the organizations goals drive the selection of the information system, and identify the roles that each of the organizations stakeholders play in the selection and acquisition process. The process for selecting and acquiring an information system has to start with figuring out where the organization needs to start. The first step would be to assign a work team to develop a process and research the types of information systems that the organization is considering (McGrady, Conger, Blanke, Landry, 2010). The second step is to look at the plan and how it is laid out, and the amount of work. While researching the information system it is imperative...
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...This paper focuses on the success factors for the system integration of the Metropolitan Medical Group and Oak Grove Medical Group. How to secure access to healthcare data, updated of proper records, integrity and security issues, as well as some implications. The critical success factors for the system integration of the two practices are: the practices grown from one office to five offices with new services such as laboratory services, gynecological practice, x-ray and mammography screening, as well as nutrition counseling. Integration management is an element that coordinates every aspects of system integration. When properly performed, it will run all system smoothly. Integration management will also produce chains of deliverables that includes implementation and planning. The integration of the practices has some management implications such as the quality of the data is not consistent and accurate, repeating entry, verification of patient’s insurance, omission or incorrect update of patient records all this can put the organization at risk. For example, the desk clerk forgot to verify Mrs. Smith insurance provider’s information. They need to apply rules to standardize their data, as well as transforming it. These are complicated in their organization; it can permit errors or poor quality of data. More so, accurate and updating process is very essential in healthcare organization. To ensure proper updating of patient’s records, flow of data must be well organized...
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...Informatics/ HCS/482 Information technology in a world of health informatics systems is constantly changing and influenced by instant communication and global events. In the healthcare setting, being able to predict communication outcomes is a vital necessity. A system is defined as a series of functional components connected by communication links exhibiting, purpose, and goal directed behavior. This paper will analysis and discuss systems, informatics theories, and DIK model. This thesis will examine the role of expert system in nursing care, medicine, use of decision aids, and decision support systems. This argument will describe technology has on decision making uses for patient and client management and study the effects of technology on health care and health status. Theory informs a discipline and helps define the discipline OLS is not available, but I wanted to send you some feedback and will post your grade at a later time. This will include your APA, paper formatting, and the rest of the content. The assignment is well written, and I want to tell you that you really did not put it in a context that would help you in your Week 5 assignment. I will also cut and paste this exact same message in your OLS and feedback when it is available. What I mean by that is the fact you did not really show me you work in an enviornment that utilizes IT, you have experience working with informatics, and you may not be as strong in information techology. This is part...
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...Decisions: Interwest Healthcare Chapter 2 Case Study 1. What are the potential sources of the problem? After reading the case study it seems that one problem between the hospitals and upper management seems to be lack of communication. It seems that Singh and Mrs. Manzoni have not affectively communicated to the hospital administrators what the goals of the company are and what is best for the company. I believe that Mrs. Singh and the hospital administrators value the importance of two different things. Mrs. Singh values the importance of correct data entry into the firm’s management information system. While, the hospital administrators seem to be placing more value on the importance of patient services. In addition, it seems Mrs. Singh does not know what motivates the employees to exert more effort. Economists would view the employees’ actions as the outcomes of maximizing personal utility (Brickley, Smith, & Zimmerman, 2009). During the retreat Mrs. Singh failed to effectively communicate to the administrators the high importance of accurately entering data. She should had stressed how incorrect data could possibly effect the aid that they receive. 2. What information would you want to analyze? I would actually choose to thoroughly analyze the data the management information system is currently asking for. I would also review past reports generated by the system and compare them. It would be highly imperative to insure that the system asked the appropriate...
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...The laboratory information system is a software based management program that tracks and stores data related to blood work and other laboratory tests such as cerebrospinal fluid and urine samples which are crucial to patient treatment and care. The lab information system, “ can provide many benefits, including a shorter turnaround time for results; prevention of duplicate testing; decreased likelihood of human error; and identification of abnormal results according to age, sex and hospital standards ( Hebda & Czar p.120).” This system allows the results of all specimens to be immediately available as soon as samples are processed. The laboratory specimen may be collected by the nurse or phlebotomist, and is processed through the lab upon arrival. Once it is processed, the results or data are easily accessed by the healthcare team to be interpreted. The LIS makes timely diagnosis possible, and even includes “the automatic entry of repeating tests at the time of the original order. An example might include the order “troponin X3,’ which would automatically schedule the first troponin level, with the second 8 hours later and the third level 8 hours after the second and which would subsequently bundle serial tests into one claim for reimbursement ( Hebda & Czar p. 120).” Although a diagnosis may not be made based solely on a lab result, it can indicate that other testing may be necessary. Since the results are posted into the Nursing Information System, the nurse has the...
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...of this strategic plan is to create a information system for the Medical center of Lewisville to integrate current technology in the information structure of the facility. II. Vision a. The vision of the medical center is to bring state of the art information system where electronic records and shared information will bring a better experience for our patients. III. Mission b. The medical center of Lewisville promises quality service with our computerized system that will make it easier for patients to request information and register at the facility. IV. SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) c. The strengths are that we have a expert team and plan in place to set the structure. d. Weakness is that there are a number of departments and we need to be sure to connect so data is shared and retrieved easily. e. Opportunities are that we do have the expertise and the chance to look at local facilities with similar information systems. f. Possible threats are that we wouldn’t be able to start off with the ease and flow in the initial stage. V. Plan Objectives g. To complete a rough run in 3 months time so we can evaluate our plan VI. Tasks and Timelines VII. Evaluate each department system at the end of two months VIII. Budgeting and Resources Executive summary The purpose of this strategic plan is to create an information system for the Medical center of Lewisville that...
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...Determining HRIS Needs HR Information Systems Dr. Karen Golaub May 4, 2015 Business and organizations around the world rely on human resource information systems (HRIS) to keep their business running efficiently. HRIS systems provide businesses with rapid data access, information exchange, and strategic advantage (Flynn, 2015). They can be very complex and computerized and are available from software firms, consulting firms or can be home grown. However, as technology and laws change, HRIS systems must also be fluid in order to be relevant and useful. Rapid change in technology and government regulations can make long term planning very difficult when determining if an HRIS needs to be replaced or updated. To start, the company must plan forward and decide what needs must be met as the company grows. Looking at previous market trends will not be enough. Examining trends in technology will be one of the first tasks. Just in the last decade, cloud computing and SaaS has become much more prevalent and is causing a change in how people utilize HRIS. Instead of having to purchase bulk licenses, companies are now using SaaS to power their HRIS. This means a change in computing, hosting and training. This also means that the security surrounding HRIS must be more robust and paramount, especially since identity theft and data breaches have become more common. Besides technology, when planning ahead for an HRIS, companies need to look at how government regulations and...
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...computers that have older operating systems. At the hospital where I work, we are slowly switching over to Windows 7 from XP. This is a challenge for large companies, especially in the healthcare area. Internet explorer is one of the thorns in our side. When new IEs come out, we have to test all of our programs with it. Last year we finally had all computers upgraded to IE 7. People dimensions is probably the broadest of all of them. Everything from keeping employees trained to the work environment. Also people dimensions can be affected by the other two dimensions. The question is, what is the difference between IT and information systems? Information technology is the hardware and software that supports information systems. This includes computers, servers, NAS, and software like Microsoft Office. An information system is everything together. It is where information technologies are as well as the software. Information systems is where the data is collected, stored, distributed, and used. A good example is a hospital’s electronic medical record system. The data is the patient’s information. The patient’s information is collected at registration. Then it goes to the nurses and then to the doctor’s. After they are discharged, the patient’s information goes to the billing department. Another way to look at it is that information systems is where everything happens. Another good example is a retail stores point of sales system. This connects all their stores...
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