Selection Process, Organization Goals, and Stakeholders Role There are a number of items that must be well-thought-out when changing an information system. The initial process for choosing a new information system is how the system will be used. When an organization make the decision to change their information system to an up-dated (EHR) system, the next step is will only the member in a practice have use of the system or will other health care organizations affiliated with the organization have access to the system. What encompass the decision are the electronic medical records (EMRs), along with other health records. Hence with the EMR in one place everyone can locate the information, such as prescription records and patient financial accounts, and immunization records, just, to mention a few.
Conclusion In conclusion, there are many aspects that an organization needs to consider prior to purchasing any health information system. The type of system, the goals of the organization and the role each of the organization’s stakeholder’s play in the process all need to be considered before selection and implementation can begin. When all of these areas are addressed and are answered the organization can
The plan must address who is to perform specific duties during the recovery period. These people must be selected very carefully, alternates identified, and plans should be documented to train and test those individuals in the performance of their duties. * Review and update the current contingency plan for the hospital to ensure that it is flexible in order to respond to any type of internal or external disaster including nuclear, biological, and chemical terrorist threats. Update the current contingency plan to ensure that it outlines a chain of task delegation and communication to be activated by the upper level medical services supervisor on-site following notification from the administrator on call that emergency procedures are to be implemented (see Table A). * Conduct a business impact analysis to identify and prioritize critical systems, business processes, and components.
SBARQ is a technique for communicating critical information that requires immediate attention and action concerning a patient’s condition and is especially important during handoff. Situation—What is going on with the patient? Background—What is the clinical background or context? Assessment—What do I think the problem is? Recommendation and Request—What would I do to correct it?
For this reason there are terms of compliance that hospitals must adhere to. The Joint Commission Handbook serves as a means of regulation and compliance for hospitals and other such facilities. There are four categories that the Joint Commission focuses on during the accreditation audits for a hospital: Information Management which involves the efficient management of health information and accuracy, Medication Management involving labeling and sterility, Communication involving verification, and Infection Control to minimize spread and infection. We will be performing an accreditation audit to confirm that compliance standards are met for Nightingale Community Hospital. This accreditation audit will focus on Nightingale Hospital and the maintenance of communication within the hospital.
Functional Area Interrelationships The primary reason why of Patton-Fuller Community Hospital (PFCH) exists will be analyzed by their vision, values, mission and goals. We will analyze the reason for the type of organizational structure employed by Patton- Fuller Community Hospital and identify key positions that support that structure. The steps of the collaboration process among PFCH that must be employed to achieve the organizational goals will be identified and explained. An action plan will also be prepared to implement the collaboration process. We will provide an example of the use of lateral collaboration and vertical collaboration within the organization, and prepare an action plan to use lateral and vertical collaboration.
Selecting the appropriate system structure for disease classification related to reimbursement and epidemiological data is vital to all health care settings from hospital to physician and all other clinicians to ensure proper reimbursement and data storage. With value based purchasing of quality health care service providers need to know the health of the population they serve and a disease classification system is what it
The Joint Commission is one such agency that provides assistance and support to health care facilities to ensure that certain standards are met, education for implementing new standards and feedback of current healthcare practices as part of the accreditation process. According to Facts about Hospital Accreditation (2014), the “Joint Commission standards address the hospital’s performance in specific areas, and specify requirements to ensure that patient care is provided in a safe manner and in a secure environment (p. 1).” This agency uses a Priority Focus Process methodology to identify areas within healthcare organizations which have a significant impact on patient safety and quality of care. One of these areas that Nightingale Community Hospital would like to focus on is communication. According the O’Daniel and Rosenstein (2008), “Lack of communication creates situations where medical errors can occur. These errors have the potential to cause severe injury or unexpected patient death…More specifically, the Joint Commission cites communication failures as the leading root cause for medication
Hawse explains that a critical thinker tries to develop the capacity to transform thought into reasoning at will and uses the ability to make his or her inferences explicit. Critical thinkers use critiques in order to redesign, remodel, and make better. Critical thinking is an attitude of being disposed to consider in a thoughtful way the problems and subjects that come within the range of one’s experiences (hawse 2010). Healthcare professionals must gather, analyze, and process information in order to make a logical decision. These decisions can be complex and require multiple levels of decision-making.
Hospital executives, MD leaders, and MD champions become role models for IT driven care. To guide and oversee this major physical and cultural transformation, a physician advisory committee is essential to represent all physician interests from workflow changes to order set development to MD engagement. To accomplish the goal of workflow redesign, significant clinical involvement to build the necessary infrastructure to affect practice changes is required. Workflow changes associated with the physician’s practice takes precedence along with the workflow changes incurred by clinical services including the nursing, clinical and pharmacy departments. Access and availability of computer hardware are included as necessary components in practice restructuring.