Manuel Sacapano Case Study

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It is not every person that is deeply attached to a physical possession, yet Dr. Manuel Sacapano is not an everyday person. Dr. Manuel Sacapano is an experienced physician and the current National Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Prospect Medical Holdings Inc., Chief Medical Informatics Officer with Alta Hospital System, and an Emergency Medicine physician who graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine. He can be best represented by his pen, which is both complex and simple, that provides reliability and functionality. Ironically, the pen began its journey with Dr. Manuel Sacapano in 2000, the same year that he graduated from the esteemed Loma Linda University of Medicine and began his journey as a medical doctor. In 2000, …show more content…

Nothing is perfect in the world of clinical systems implementation, so a Chief Informatics Officer is always on the go. He travels around the country to attend meetings in order to figure out how to best balance compliance, security, ease of use, automation of manual processes, and safety in electronic medical records systems and other hospital software systems. Clinicians have constantly evolving needs and often come to the Chief Informatics Officer with a clear idea of the problem they want to solve, but no idea of how to solve it. Reliably the pen records lessons from the meetings and concerns of clinicians as it travels with him. It crafts written reports to advise senior management on how to face the endless stream of projects, so that those which can accomplish the greatest good for the most people over the longest time period can be …show more content…

Sacapano’s “lucky pen”. One moment it signs a prescription for a Class 3 narcotic and the next it drafts a plan to achieve physician alignment through a new messaging system. When it is needed to jot something down it is always ready, although it may sometimes need a bit of priming like a physician waking up at 2 AM to handle an emergency may need a cup of coffee. The pen is a conduit to collect and transfer information in varied multidisciplinary venues around the country, just as Dr. Manuel Sacapano is. Similar to how during the course of work performing as a Chief Medical Informatics Officer and an emergency room physician a doctor may take a break, the pen may take a moment off, but it never is completely unavailable for long. Through its simplicity of design it communicates dependability and demonstrates that even the most unassuming of things can achieve great feats, help to heal the sick and transform the world of medicine for generations to

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