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
Also, these studies question those who are effected; in this case, those who are most effected, is everyone. Doctors and nurses spend the most time working within these systems, but the information that is put into these systems effects every individual in America, because it is their information. Because nurses are often considered “both coordinators and providers of patient care” and they “attend to the whole patient,” their opinion is highly regarded (Otieno, Toyama, Asonuma, Kanai-Pak, & Naitoh, 2007, p. 210). It is clear that the use of these new systems is much debated, and many people have their own, individualized opinion. This information suggests that when there is a problem in the medical field, those who address it attempt to gather opinions from everyone who is involved before proceeding. It has been proven by multiple studies that this system of record keeping does in fact have potential to significantly improve patient health through efficiency, and it is because of this that the majority of hospitals have already completed, or begun the transfer from paperless to electronic (Otieno, Toyama, Asonuma, Kanai-Pak, & Naitoh,
The use of the PDA has found a place in the general life of the public but also has become an essential part of many professions. The medical and nursing professions have embraced this technology as well. Due to the ease of programming of the PDA, many programs for use in the medical community have been developed for that operating system. According to Hunt, in 2002 an estimated 18 percent of physicians and only 1 percent, approximately 25,000, of all nurses were using the PDA in their practices.
In an effort to improve clinician workflow and enhance patient safety, a healthcare facility has purchased and will soon be introducing a computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system for use within the electronic health record. A pre-deployment evaluation plan will permit the informatics team to appraise the usability of the CPOE and provide administrators with valuable data regarding its successful implementation. This paper describes the formation of this evaluation plan including the goals, methodology, and tools to be used. The final sections cover the ethical implications and dissemination of findings, along with the limitations and opportunities that the study provides.
Administrative Mandates, including the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010, are all part of administrative simplification and the need for systems optimiza...
Technology is a major asset to healthcare and without it our healthcare system would not be what it is today. With systems like the Computerized Physician Order Entry, patient safety is the number one priority. However, designing sophisticated software systems that only take the patient aspect into consideration can lead to unintentional errors for healthcare providers. In order to make recommendations for the future we need to understand what the Computerized Physician Order Entry does and the unintentional errors it causes.
Nevertheless, by integrating the cutting-edge facilities can be used for identifying unusual symptoms. It can be speculated that the hospital located in the USA is a high-stress and high-demand atmosphere. Similarly, if the hospital doesn’t make good use of technology, the patients with the certain illness cannot match the most effective therapy. Besides, without using the computer-aided technology, the medical workers hardly have time to breathe because they must be busy with administrative matters, which eventually lose focus on patient’s treatment. Accordingly, many health workers have started to depend on utilising the most advanced electronic appliances, just as the handy Google glass being acclaimed in the
We can look at the patient’s allergies, their vital signs, and even their most recent weight which is important when we have a patient with Congested Heart Failure. Being able to share a patient’s medical record and all their health care encounters is so vital in the complete care of a patient. Being able to assess a patient’s medical record electronically is also important when it comes to prescribing medications because it can alert the provider to potential conflicts with other medications that the patient has been prescribed. And if a patient comes into the emergency room unconscious from an accident, the provider can still look up the patient and adjust care as needed. The electronic medical record is important in the transition of care of a patient from one provider to another. For example, when a patient is hospitalized and then discharged, they are asked to follow up with their primary care doctor within two weeks. With the provider being able to consider the patient’s electronic medical record they can see what care the patient received while they were hospitalized and vice versa, the emergency room provider is also able to consider the patient’s electronic medical record to see the care plan for the patient and the care the patient has been receiving from their primary care provider. According to HealthIT, Electronic Medical Records can reveal potential safety problems when they occur, helping providers avoid more serious consequences for patients and leading to better patient outcomes. Electronical Medical Records can help providers quickly and systematically identify and correct operational problems. In a paper-based setting, identifying such problems is much more difficult, and correcting them can take
The United States health care system has undergone a myriad of changes, including the introduction and implementation of health information systems (HIS). Because I am primarily a consumer of healthcare in an international forum, I have watched with interests as the United States aims to integrate the use of electronic health records throughout the healthcare platform. Just recently, I had the opportunity to ask an internal medicine physician about the experience of using HIS within an office setting. The physician stated the process is especially helpful for patients who travel and move often. But, in this particular healthcare practice, the physician stated the two biggest HIS obstacles were time consumption and system breakdowns. In fact,
Scott, T., Implementing an Electronic Medical Record System: Successes, Failures, Lessons, Oxon, Radcliffe Publishing, 2007.
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.
Health care information system (HCIS) is an arrangement of information (data), processes, people, and information technology that interact to collect, process, store, and provide as output the information needed to support the health care organization (Wager, Lee, Glaser, 2013, p. 105). Having ready access to timely, complete, accurate, legible, and relevant information is critical to health care organizations, providers, and the patients they serve (Wagerm Lee, & Glaser, 2013). In the health care industry, the quality of care is one of the most important objectives for most health care organizations. The growing developments in health information technology have a great impact on the delivery of health care and have changed the systems used to record and share information. It has the potential to improve the quality of care if it is appropriately used. Health care organizations routinely apply computers and other technologies to record and transfer health information such as diagnoses, prescriptions, and insurance information.
The case study by Elizabeth Layman (2011) is a very comprehensive compilation of the implementation of electronic health records, in relation to the Health Information Services Departments. Through this study Layman documents the conditions to be implemented to achieve satisfactory application of the change-over from the conventional pen and ledger system to computer documentation of patient’s records maintained by health networks.
It has allowed life to adapt to an easier, faster and diverse environment. Therefore, using technology to create electronic medical records only makes sense to help organize the health care community, which is a separate world itself. Electronic medical record (EMR) software isn't a cure-all that will eliminate errors, but it can help reduce the odds of mistake. EMR’s are a digital version of patient charts which contain the medical and treatment history of the patient. They track data over time, identify which patients are due for preventive screenings or checkups, check how their patients are doing on certain boundaries as well as monitor and improve overall quality of care within the practice. An EMR serves as an assistant in providing some of the fastest, user friendly and error preventing tools to make both patient and staff happy. Doctors can use the computerized physician order entry (CPOE) to order tests, medications, procedures etc. into the system without forgetting any detail specified to dose, route, and frequency. By using this type of order entry, abbreviations and decimal points that are dangerous can now properly be recognized and not confused. Most systems also offer computerized decision support systems (CDSS) which aid in reviewing orders as they appear, comparing orders both past and present, checking for possible drug interactions, as well as alerting physicians to
The rapid growth of information technology (IT), combined with provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, have led to a paradigm shift in healthcare documentation and recordkeeping, resulting in widespread implementation of healthcare information technology (HIT). Successful integration of HIT requires an artful blend of traditional project management techniques with the distinctive theories of change and IT administration (Coplan & Masuda, 2011). As a future leader in the field of nursing informatics, it is inevitable that I will be taking an active role in managing HIT projects. In this paper, I describe my personal insights into the unique process of technological change implementation in the healthcare industry.
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