Patient Care Applications

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The main features, capabilities, and operational benefits to a health care organization’s using the following:
Patient care applications
Patient care applications are systems enables collaboration between practitioners, patients, and their families to assure that procedures and decisions respect patients’ needs and preferences. The main feature of patient care application includes patient medical information (diagnosis, pre-treatment and post-treatment plans. Patient care application aids in the delivery of health care information making it much easier for patients to have access to the information in helping them make better health care decision provides a way for the patient to monitor their health information. Operational benefits of patient …show more content…

C.) For example, Teladoc, patients can have access to doctors for consultation, offer follow-ups and even prescribe medication if necessary. E-health can provide access to quality medical care, promotes cost-efficient increasing effectiveness and efficiency in the healthcare delivery system. The benefit of E-Health is that it breaks the barrier to the provision of health care, i.e. provides patients unlimited access to health care services at their convenience and from …show more content…

SDLC is comprised of definite processes used to plan, design, implement and maintain the selection and development of information system. The importance of the system development life cycle is that it improves the chances that the health care organization selects the correct application or system for its need and probability of a successful implementation, (Burns, Bradley & Weiner, 2012). It aids in the effort to implement a new information system and provides a structure for guidance in the development at each stage of system development life cycle. For example, the definition/planning stage will give an overview of the system to be implemented, which includes, the description of the system, operations, budget analysis and development plans, design,

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