Handling a Collapsed IT System: The CareGroup Case Analysis
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The medical industry with its huge data and difficult regulatory and insurance needs has the requirements of the systems that would automatically run the solutions for the Physicians. Corporate information strategy and management provides a compelling solution to the Health care groups. In the day to day busy schedules of the doctors, there needs to be an information flow that would be grabbled daily. I.e. this system should be automatic in a sense that a mere push from IT staff would seek a way for much of the information flow. Solution to this situation is the development of the software for ‘Physicians’ and ‘Doctors’ using the information technology and strategy. There are so many application systems which may be used for the preparation of such a system. For example pocket PC software platform, Microsoft Windows development environment. Benefits: • Resources of different specified application software are excellent in a way that they perform better, processing power is good and graphics user interface is friendly that may enable the access of strong data storage. • Friendly and a good replacement of paper work also reduce the workload in the healthcare units. • As discussed above, the backup facility provides a huge database for doctors and physicians and there is integration with the record. The quantity of information flow from the advancement in the medical field and in pharmaceutical industry is too much to swamp for even the best physicians and trainers despite the fact that there is latest technology in medical. According to a survey in the U.S approximately 7,000 deaths have occurred annually due the medication error while the reaction of a dose reaches to 1.3 million American with the adverse effects. That is why health care’s professional needed to deal with the insurance and government regulations strictly. Awaking of this problem the doctors and physicians have established large healthcare groups around the world with the mixture of hospitals, clinics and other facilities of health. The problem of overload medical information can be solved the independent software vendor solution providers. The solution may be in the form of bespoke application software for doctors which would be having several tasks ranging from writing the prescription down to printing the different bills that is powerful, portable automatic workflow.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that the resources of various specified application software are excellent in a way that they perform better, processing power is good, and graphics user interface is friendly that may enable strong data storage.
- Opines that friendly and a good replacement of paper work reduce the workload in the healthcare units.
- Explains applegate, austin, and mcfarlan's corporate information strategy and management.
- Explains that the medical industry needs systems that would automatically run the solutions for physicians. corporate information strategy and management provides a compelling solution to the health care groups.
- Explains that the backup facility provides a huge database for doctors and there is integration with the record.
- Recommends effective backup systems, a disaster recovery plan, and budget management for replacing items.
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- Explains that hie can help healthcare professionals determine if lab, x-rays or other tests are necessary when they have already been done at another facility.
- Describes the benefits of allowing multiple health professionals to access records for labs, medication lists, problem lists and allergies while ensuring all hippa and hitech regulations are in compliance.
- Explains that there are two levels of protection for privacy and securrty, message level and service level.
- Explains the restriction set in place for hie are identity verification of both sending and receiving entities, message encryption to ensure data confidentiality, and message signing verifies data’s origin.
- Explains that they were better informed on the health information exchange program during their research. they are proud to be a part of this program throughout their career.
- Opines that the information in this report will hopefully give enough facts to form an intelligent opinion as to the necessity of a health information exchange system.
- Explains that the hartford foundation gave out several grants to a variety of different cities and locales for the purpose of building what they called "community health management information systems."
- Explains that direst exchange, query based coverage, and consumer-mediated exchange allow patients to aggregate and control the use of their health information.
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- Explains the risks of not implementing the emr, including misinterpretation of handwritten orders by physicians, an increase in medical errors, and a hard time tracking patients’ medical records.
- Explains the risks to consider when implementing an emr, such as financial issues, and a temporary decrease in productivity. the hospital budget has been carefully monitored for the past two years.
- Explains that their organization switched over to an emr in 2007 and has learned from their informatics committee that there were many kinks to the actual transition process.
- Explains the advantages and disadvantages of emr and clinical information systems (cis).
- Cites burke, l., weill, b. and mastrian, k. (2012). nursing informatics.
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- Explains the health information technology for economic and clinical health (hitech) act, sanctioned as part of the american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009.
- Explains that the federal trading commission requires healthcare organizations to implement an identity theft prevention program.
- Explains that audit trail is a part of hipaa regulations, providing all the information regarding who, when, where, and for how long accessed patient information. red flag alerts are often set to detect unauthorized access.
- Explains that an organization needs to ensure the control accessed, only authorized user are allowed to access the database. different roles of individuals need different levels of information, so restricted access is provided by generating an id code.
- Explains that firewalls are a system designed to prevent unauthorized access to the network. they can be implemented on both hardware and software.
- Explains encryption and cryptography. encryption converts regular text into random characters only known to sender and intended recipient, while cryptography is system to encrypt and decrypt the data.
- Explains that many organizations are now adopting auto lockout and password change system if system is left unattended for more than few minutes. more and more health care organizations push their employees to change their passwords after 2 months to reduce the risk.
- Explains that remote access of health records and pooling of large numbers of data for various purposes may lead to an error and confusion.
- Explains that many patients keep their own records of blood sugars, weight and blood pressure using various internet tools, but healthcare providers cannot access these records because they cannot streamline those records with ehr.
- Explains that since the introduction of ehr, anyone can access patient personal information by hacking into computers. lack of trust is becoming a major problem in healthcare organizations.
- Explains that lack of patient control on phi-ehr has made it difficult for patients and even healthcare professionals to understand who controls the patient records.
- Explains that electronic health records are now gaining popularity among health care professionals, as it is the most effective way to communicate with patient and colleagues.
- Explains that internet tools like google health and microsoft vault provide convenience to patients but also provides easy access to identity thieves. the solutions are still under process.
- Explains that they have gathered relevant data from online journals and articles to understand the role and importance of implementing ehr in healthcare system while respecting patient privacy and confidentiality.
- Explains that the electronic health record (ehr) was developed in 1972 by the regenstreif institute, indianapolis, but it took long to gain the attention of healthcare professionals.
- Explains that increasing data breaching issues in healthcare organizations have infected this fruity picture.
- Argues that the need for ehr and cloud computing in healthcare industry is increasing because of its functionality.
- Explains that it companies are proposing different hardware base security initiatives to regain the confidence of users by agreeing to the policy that the data submitted to their cloud platform will be kept confidential.
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- Explains that healthcare technologies and information systems are designed to help manage the daily operations of general healthcare organizations.
- Explains that the electronic health record system (ehr) is becoming a standard in the healthcare field.
- Explains that robotic surgical systems have a wide range of uses and benefits, but clinical rehabilitation has made good use of it, thanks to robotic devices.
- Opines that advances in healthcare have created a better clinical environment, an increase to the quality of care, and reducing errors and cost for the industry.
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- Opines that an adept and seasoned provider is worth their weight in gold in offering insight and guidance to the patient.
- Explains that patient generated health data (pghd) is becoming more prevalent, especially with the introduction of technology such as body area networks and other remote monitoring systems.
- Explains the need to untangle the legal web of standardization and privacy concerns with the introduction of legislation such as the health information technology for economic and clinical health (hitech) act.
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- Explains that electronic medical databases and the ability to store medical files have made our lives easier in many ways and riskier in others.
- Argues that the problem with electronic medical storage is that its growth has outpaced that of regulation.
- Opines that the access issue must be addressed and its weaknesses addressed so that individuals continue to have faith in the system.
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- Explains that patient safety is a new healthcare discipline that emphasizes the analysis, prevention, and reporting of medical error that often leads to adverse healthcare events. the safety competencies framework must be adapted into any healthcare organization’s programs, professional development activities and day-day practice.
- Explains that the electronic patient record (epr) is uhn's standard clinical desktop application developed by shared information management services (sims).
- Explains that the health and safety executive defines human factors as environmental, organizational, and job factors, as well as physiological and psychological characteristics which influence behavior at work and impact of patient safety.
- Explains that the most important benefit of cpoes is patient safety, which is difficult to quantify.
- Cites jensen, d., the safety competencies framework, the canadian institute of patient safety (cpsi), and gebran, j.
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- Explains that the healthcare industry has come a long way in terms of technological advances, but ethical issues and dilemmas must be faced by healthcare professionals.
- Explains that genetic testing has had significant advancement over the past few years. it can provide important information regarding diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness or disease.
- Explains that while genetic testing can provide valuable information, many of the tests are not regulated and go to market without an independent analysis of their validity. genetic test kits are readily available on the internet for home testing.
- Explains the ethical implications of genetic testing, including the need for informed consent between the patient and healthcare profession. genetic discrimination is another ethical concern.
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- Explains computer-based decision support systems (cdss), networked computerized physician order entry (cpoe), and support of natural language interfaces.
- Explains that the institute of medicine has five goals for ehr, which are improve quality, safety, efficacy, and reduce healthcare disparities, engage patients and their families/caregivers, improve care coordination and improve population health.
- Concludes that advances in technology in healthcare have provided many benefits including providing important information regarding diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness or disease. however, with these benefits come numerous ethical issues that must be addressed.
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- Explains that the health care information system (hcis) is an arrangement of information, processes, people, and information technology that interact to collect, process, store and provide as output the information needed to support the healthcare organization.
- Explains that advances in information technology have increased the possibility of potential intentional and unintentional breaches of private or confidential health information.
- Explains that immunization information systems (iis) are confidential, population-based, computerized databases that record all vaccination doses administered by participating providers to persons residing within a given geopolitical area.
- Explains that 86 percent of centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) immunization program grantees reported using their immunisation information systems for routine coverage assessments of "series-complete" vaccination of children ages 19–35 months.
- Opines that the breach of privacy and confidentiality of patients’ health information will negatively impact patient care.
- Explains that immunization information systems (iis) has advantages, but it also comes with questions and concerns about privacy and security of health information.
- Explains that state law determines legal authority to exchange iis information, while federal privacy, confidentiality, and security laws may also apply.
- Recommends developing an information security policy that delineates the roles and responsibilities of the project staff and participants with respect to the privacy and confidentiality of patient health information.
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- Recommends that the restorative office staff catch up with the protection bearers to get claim status. depending on your charging strategy, you should hope to accept installment in as meager as 15 days.
- Explains that this multidisciplinary journal covers a broad range of topics essential to current practice, from office procedures to computer technology.
- Explains that meditec has everything that you need at your fingertips in one list. the site is updated as new sites become available.
- Explains that ahrq's mission is to transform the proof to make health awareness more secure, higher quality, more receptive, evenhanded, and reasonable.
- Explains that medicinal practice administrators are accountable for everything from money related wanting to the errand planning. each one requires distinctive abilities, such as being forward on job laws and comprehending current coding and charging methods.
- Explains that the school of health sciences programs at kaplan university are focused on understanding the needs of today's health care industry and anticipating future needs.
- Describes the responsibilities of a medical office manager, and explains that the medical office manager has more duties than an assistant.
- Explains that medical staff management is an expensive buy, but if you want to do your job the correct way it will be beneficial to you.
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