Welcome to 21st Century Solutions Health Care Hospital, as you know in this century we are faced with many different professionals, including physicians, nurses, and allied professionals in various areas of healthcare. This state of the art facility was recently renovated and it includes a new information technology management center which handles all professional staffing solutions within the hospital. Tabatha Johnson serves as the CEO and brings to you over fifteen years of health care experiences. I would like to provide an informative organizational structure of our facility, the company’s mission and value statement, the hiring process of our nurses, physicians, etc. and the advancement of how information technology has helped increased …show more content…
We are also committed to operating in full compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and guidelines, as well as with our own policies and procedures. Staffing shortages for hospitals continue to plague the healthcare industry. Therefore we have implemented a plan in hiring quality nurses, physicians, and allied professionals. Thanks to our extraordinarily in-depth screening process, only the top qualified caregivers who apply to 21st Century Solutions Health Care are hired. Our careful process ensures every one of our staff are skilled, licensed, competent, honest, trustworthy, and a truly caring individual. Hiring the right people and engaging and retaining your employees will result in higher morale, lower employee turnover, and a much stronger bottom line (http://www.naylornetwork.com/ahh-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=134767&issueID=22500) This 7-step hiring process ensures quality Nurses, Physicians, and Allied …show more content…
Organizations that do not centralize their information needs will often suffer scattered databases, which may result in such problems as duplication of data gathering, inconsistent reports, and inefficiencies in the use of economic resources. For all IT sensitive conditions we find that health IT adoption reduces mortality for the most complex patients but does not affect outcomes for the median patient. The benefits from health IT are primarily experienced by patients whose diagnoses require cross-specialty care coordination and extensive clinical information management. Information technology has alleviated problems such as medical errors which come from stress caregivers trying to manage complex patient situations with inadequate resources. Information technology also helps manage the task and activity that interferes with the nurse providing direct patient care and it also reduces health care costs. The focus that is indirectly on patient care activities causes nurses’ distress and dissatisfaction with the health care environment. Technological solutions must be designed to enhance safety, efficiency, and effectiveness. Patient care activities that’s benefited from information technology includes, medication administration, laboratory draws, patient assessments, procedures, recording patient data, and patient and family education
This can include modifying work processes and procedures to be computerized, adding or changing computer systems, or even a new communication tool for the organization (Robbins et al., 2021). In the business case “Prairie General Hospital,” the biggest change in technology for the hospital is switching from the “most archaic and costly operating systems” to CareWeb (Robbins et al., 2021, ch. 1). 7, p. 35). The new system, CareWeb, is more cost effective and allows the staff to view a wide variety of the patients’ health history in minutes rather than hours or in some cases, days (Robbins et al., 2021). The case states that the new system has saved the hospital over a million dollars each year and has decreased human error in patient care by over 90% (Robbins et al., 2021, ch.
McBride, S., Delaney, J., & Tietze, M. (2012). Health Information Technology and Nursing. American Journal of Nursing, 112(8). Retrieved from http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/pdf?AID=1402619&an=00152258-201301000-00010&Journal_ID=&Issue_ID=
Unfortunately, the quality of health care in America is flawed. Information technology (IT) offers the potential to address the industry’s most pressing dilemmas: care fragmentation, medical errors, and rising costs. The leading example of this is the electronic health record (EHR). An EHR, as explained by HealthIT.gov (n.d.), is a digital version of a patient’s paper chart. It includes, but is not limited to, medical history, diagnoses, medications, and treatment plans. The EHR, then, serves as a resource that aids clinicians in decision-making by providing comprehensive patient information.
The purpose of this week’s discussion is to reflect on our own organizations and describe it organizational structure including location, size, degree of integration, type of care provided, health needs in communities served, availability of providers, and managed care penetration. Next I will identify an element of organizational development from which my organization would benefit. Finally I will describe what actions I would take to implement the organizational element and anticipated results.
With consolidation among hospital systems over the last few years there has been a trend toward ways to streamline processes. By having “shared services” such as laundry services, human resources and radiology and diagnostic services it’s possible to lower costs and have common processes. The advent of health care reform and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with its Information Technology (IT) incentives has led to greater interest in risk management and IT solutions. While there was a decrease in 2012 on outsourcing IT services the finalization by the Supreme Court of the ACA and President Obama’s re-election cemented the need for an IT solution (Kutscher, 2012)
Nursing documentation is an important factor of healthcare delivery today. The use of information and communication technology offers opportunities for improving patient care delivery while reducing nurses’ documentation load and increasing the time available for caring for various patient populations (Munyisia, Yu, & Hailey, 2012).
They should provide a vast variety of supporting technology like Health care information technology (HIT), email conversations, portal web facilities to ensure a good quality relation between the physicians and the patients. Educating the care givers to value human beings over technology will help the patients to be more responsive. HCO’s should be designed and nurtured with an environment in which their work force is treated with dignity and are given enough space for new emerging ideas. It should become an important tool in leaders’ toolbox. Health care providers should use payment strategies of patients and families in patient care and quality improvement
Electronic medical records not only effect health care professionals, but the patients of those health care providers as well. However, nurses spend the most time directly using electronic medical records to access patient date and chart. Nurses now learn to chart, record data, and interact with other health care providers electronically. Many assume that electronic means efficient, and the stories of many nurses both agree, and disagree. Myra Davis-Alston, a nurse from Las Vegas, NV, says that she “[likes] the immediate access to patient progress notes from all care providers, and the ability to review cumulative lab values and radiology reports” (Eisenberg, 2010, p. 9). This form of record keeping provides health care professionals with convenient access to patient notes, vital signs, and test results from multiple providers comprised into one central location. They also have the ability to make patients more involved in their own care (Ross, 2009). With the advancement in efficiency, also comes the reduction of costs by not printing countless paper records, and in turn, lowers health care
Over the past decade, technological advances have paved the way for nurses to provide, quality, safe, standardized and individualized patient care (Saba & McCormick, 2015). The use of the Electronic Health Records (EHR) to manage patient data is quickly becoming widespread in the healthcare industry. The emerging use of the Electronic Health Record, is transforming how nurses care for patients. By creating and implementing an electronic, comprehensive, standardized method of recording patient data, nurses can facilitate and coordinate patient care with members of the multidisciplinary healthcare team. The use of the Electronic Health Record will promote positive
The present environments for healthcare organizations contain many forces demanding unprecedented levels of change. These forces include changing demographics, increased customer outlook, increased competition, and strengthen governmental pressure. Meeting these challenges will require healthcare organizations to go through fundamental changes and to continuously inquire about new behavior to produce future value. Healthcare is an information-intensive process. Pressures for management in information technology are increasing as healthcare organizations feature to lower costs, improve quality, and increase access to care. Healthcare organizations have developed better and more complex. Information technology must keep up with the dual effects of organizational complication and continuous progress in medical technology. The literature review will discuss how health care organizations can provide effective care by the intellectual use of information.
The goal of this literature review is to increase our knowledge about technology use in practice and to identify where there is need for improvement. Information technology seems to be a widely discussed topic these days and most nurses have no clear idea how it can transform the way we do things on an every day basis. We will also look at the impact technology has on nursing, patients, and colleagues. We will then focus on a specific nursing setting, in this case the emergency room. This literature review is organized to grow on each independent section so that you, the reader, can form your own opinion, but take with you the universal understanding of how information technology will lead us down a new and exciting career path.
Journal Title: Impact of Health Information Technology on the Quality of Patient Care. Introduction: Our clinical knowledge is expanding. The researchers have first proposed the concept of electronic health records (EHR) to gather and analyze every clinical outcome. By the late 1990s, computer-based patient records (CPR) were replaced with the term EHR (Wager et al., 2009).
My overall vision is to develop and promote information technology solutions to better improve health outcomes, patient safety, and prevention of medical errors in underserved countries. In closing, Health informatics and Health Information Management is an exciting program that is designed to provide me with a suite of resources to help me develop essential leadership, teamwork, and healthcare management skills that will help me to become successful leader in healthcare
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is reshaping the health care system in the United States at an accelerating rate. In earlier times US Healthcare system was more focused on intervention of diseases, but now it is moving more towards preventive approach and I see Health IT as the most important tool that can lead this change. I strongly believe that my professional goals, range and depth of my experience and knowledge is an asset and my enthusiasm for the field makes me an ideal candidate for the Master of Professional Studies in Technology Management (Health Information Technology) program at Georgetown University.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been shown to be increasingly important in the education or training and professional practice of healthcare. This paper discusses the impacts of using ICT in Healthcare and its administration. Health Information technology has availed better access to information, improved communication amongst physicians, clinicians, pharmacists and other healthcare workers facilitating continuing professional development for healthcare professionals, patients and the community as a whole. This paper takes a look at the roles, benefits of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in healthcare services and goes on to outline the ICT proceeds/equipment used in the health sector such as the