...Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Network Project Harold Copeland CMGT/554 11/11/13 Dean Mcintyre Company Overview Patton-Fuller Community Hospital is a community hospital that provides healthcare services designed to meet the needs of patients at every stage of life. The hospital was originally founded in 1975. Patton-Fuller Community Hospital has been an important part of the community since its opening. Patton-Fuller Community Hospital is located on the corner of 61st. Street and Jump Street (Patton-Fuller Community Hospital, 2013). Patton-Fuller Community Hospital has provided quality healthcare services for the entire family since its opening while keeping its patients information and data secure even in this current digital age. Patton-Fuller’s IT departments strives to provide the healthcare facility with the most stable, secure, and fast network possible. Data Transmission Patton-Fuller’s I.T. data center consist of a HIS system computer, a Windows Exchange Server, an Internet Server, data center workstations and a RAS Server. The hospital HIS computer system is composed of an IBM Series 29EC mainframe. This mainframe is currently utilizing Linux for its operating system. The IBM 29EC mainframe contains 18 processors and 32 gigabytes of memory. This system is using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for its security. The IBM 29EC is connected to a 10 Terabyte network attached storage (NAS) by a 4 gigabyte fiber link (Patton-Fuller Community Hospital, 2013). The...
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...Network Analysis of Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Patton-Fuller Community Hospital has been in existence since 1975, providing services ranging from basic medical care, outpatient, and pharmacy; to surgery, obstetrics, and physical therapy. The hospital’s mission is to provide a high quality standard of service and practice to the patients of the surrounding community. As with most health care facilities, heavy use of technology is needed in order to enact an efficient and stable operation with safe procedures. Information is needed almost immediately concerning patient files, and the need for keeping patient files up to date is an ever growing issue. Hospitals, doctor’s offices, urgent care clinics, and pharmacies all must implement technology and network strategies in order to stay current, practice safe procedures, and to stay ahead of the ever-changing rules and government regulations put on the health care industry. Patton-Fuller Community Hospital is no exception to this. Even though they are not a giant, metropolitan based, hospital with multiple locations, they are still a rather large operation with technology and network needs in relation to the industry participated in. Internal and External Data Transmission Hospitals, by nature must communicate data both internally and externally with precise accuracy and efficiency. Internal networks must transmit data to outside networks at other hospitals, pharmacies, doctor’s offices, and other health care...
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...B. Business Contingency Plan The Compass Park Hospital Network aims to maintain business operations in the case of a disaster. In order to maintain patient care in the face of an emergency situation we are seeking to plan for restoration of business services as quickly as possible and transfer operations to other facilities in our hospital system as needed. We have reviewed some possible emergency scenarios and developed a business contingency plan to encompass all aspects of disaster recovery, including clean up from the emergency, communication with the public and our associates, emergency medical care for anyone that needs it, restoration of normal patient care operations and temporary transfer of operations and procedures as necessary. The Compass Park Hospital network is a healthcare network comprised of five full service hospitals and numerous surgery centers and clinic. In addition to helathcare facilities they also operate patient transportation services (EMS vehicles and non-emergency patient transportation) and a home medical equipment supply company. The Compass Park Hospital Network has hired an independent contract service to analyse the structural stability of each of their facilities and requested improvements to any facility that they are leasing from the landlord. They have reviewed the report and begun to make multiple safety improvements throughout the facilities that they own. They have made sure that all walkways are safe and free of structural...
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...Telemedicine in India: Initiatives and Perspective B.S.Bedi Senior Director Department of Information Technology Ministry of Communications & IT Government of India eHealth 2003: Addressing the Digital Divide-17th Oct. 2003 What is Telemedicine? • Telemedicine is the use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants … Institute of Medicine, 1996 Introduction • Telemedicine primarily refers to use of Telecommunication for diagnosis and treatment of disease • Emergent mode of delivery of health care at distance • Telemedicine provides healthcare where there is none and improves the health care where there is some • One way to bring / provide access to quality health care to under-served rural & urban masses Telemedicine: India’s Option or Necessity • India characterized by low penetration of healthcare services • 90% of secondary & tertiary healthcare facilities in cities and towns away from rural India where 68% of population lives • Primary health care facilities for rural population highly inadequate • Despite several initiatives by Government & private sector the rural and remote areas continue to suffer from absence of quality healthcare • Significant proportion of patients in remote locations could be successfully managed locally with advice/ guidance from specialists/ super-specialists in cities, without having to travel to the specialists. • Key driver of public:private...
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...Saturday August 13, 2011 Professor Raymond Bell Abstract The purpose of this report is to show how important the use of a Real time location system (RTLS) can be to hospitals. Knowing the location, status and movement of equipment and people in hospitals provides valuable information used to reduce equipment expenses and increase staff productivity. RTLS enables hospital managers the ability to increase oversight of millions of dollars’ worth of hospital-owned equipment and provides financial returns on increasing hospital-owned equipment utilization, reducing the need for excessive equipment rentals, and impacting lost, stolen or misplaced equipment. These asset tracking and management business drivers often provide the financial catalyst for getting an RTLS project approved. Real Time Location System- Awarepoint I. Definition To briefly explain the technology, RTLS wirelessly tracks the location of tagged assets or individuals in real-time wherever the facility has installed coverage. While RTLS is a complex technology, it can be simplified into three basic components: 1) the T2A asset tags (figure 2) that are affixed to the piece of equipment the hospital wants to be tracked; 2) the platform, which is the infrastructure consisting of sensors that creates a zigbee mesh grid (figure 3) and network components; and 3) the end-user software application that allows the users to see the tracked assets real time location on a computer or mobile device. Most RTLS products...
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...with the hospital directly through the Internet. Patient recommendations, complaints, and comments provide patient satisfaction reports to senior management in CRM tracking. For PFCH enhancements as indicated in part three of this series will include advertising of health awareness and education classes sponsored by PFCH. CRM systems will provide promotional events such as walk for health initiatives, and creating the ability to build relationships with current as well as future patients. PFCH will generate website pages that include discussion links to other sites such as Mayo Clinic Symptom Checker, WebMD® and other links on a variety of topics for health education. Chat rooms with various staff members participating in discussions can provide schedules for specific topics and open forum discussions. PFCH will maintain encryption as a critical security measure that is a requirement for security of patient data. The case of Patton-Fuller and the sensitivity of its network data make this consideration even more important. Web portals – other hospitals PFCH will consider the results of studies whereby engagement of patients include patient access to educational tools; however, others see it as interaction via electronic tools. Study responders agree that patient engagement is high priority. For patient education websites to consider which are in use at Mayo Clinic include health savings accounts, health/wellness section, latest news, hospital locations...
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...about the ABC Insurance Company located in Atlanta. The ABC Insurance Company has been very aggressive and quite successful in recruiting companies, organizations, and individuals to join its managed care plans. Their ranges of services and rates have been extremely competitive. Their employer base is spread out among the 14 counties, which has been attractive to many employers. The ABC Insurance Company has been quite successful in selling its managed care insurance program to employers and organizations, so what is the issue? Verde Greene Hospital has an excellent reputation for quality in maternity care, cardiac rehabilitation, and orthopedic medicine, and it is the only hospital in town to have received the Magnet Award for Excellence in Nursing. A sizable number of employer groups as well as employees, who have insurance coverage with ABC Insurance Company, want Verde Greene Hospital to be included in the network as a participating hospital. When ABC insurance company approached Verde...
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...Health Insurance- Blessing for people with busy life The word insurance truly mentions security. Security against life, health, family,vehicle,homes, shops,etc. In earlier years, there was no need to this kind of thing for the protection. I am talking about days of our grandfathers or may be even before that. The life was so great and slow, nothing to worry about any future, would involve in their daily occupational jobs like farming and living life in their own way. But it is said that nothing is permanent. The time has change now. Today we live in a much advance world. The change is faster than time. The daily routine got so much fix that we cant even take out some time to enjoy. People work in office as well as in home too. Social life is like getting extinct from their life. No time to eat even hygienic food on time. Just grabs some cafeteria served items and forget about its effects. As “no time” kind of thing ruling our life. We almost neglect our health and when any weird kind of stuff happens! Doctor is the second word that comes in our mind. First is the expense if the condition got severe. We can’t change this situation, neither can we escape from it. We have to work, look at our family and their future, about your dreams, and so to earn this, we have to get a job that offers salary far from your expectation but if salary is well then the work load will also be high. In fulfilling your daily task, you forget about your health! So it’s better to have an insurance...
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...CASE STUDY RTLS: Seeing Is Believing For Pediatric Hospital An Enterprise-wide pilot convinces pediatric hospital to implement an RTLS (real-time location system) asset tracking solution. How’s this for standing behind your product? When the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE, asked Skytron for a limited pilot of its asset-tracking solution, the supplier countered with a surprising proposal. “We asked Skytron if they would consider doing a small pilot for us,” says Ann Oddo Altoe, Assistant Chief of Information Technology for Nemours/Delaware Valley. “Could we do a couple of nursing units and see how it went? They said, ‘We’ll do a pilot for you in all million square feet of the hospital, and if doesn’t meet your objectives, we’ll pull it out.’” For Altoe and her team, the decision was obvious. “We felt fairly comfortable they had a good product if they were willing to go out on a limb.” For its part, Skytron wanted to show how easy it is to install its RTLS (Real-time Location Solution) asset-tracking technology, which is compliant with the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. Since the technology doesn’t tap Wi-Fi networks, deployment consists of plugging in sensors to the AC current, attaching tags to the devices being tracked, and installing monitoring software. The need for new wiring and routing devices is very limited, which translates to considerably lower deployment costs. As anticipated, Nemours kept the system after seeing it in action. It was...
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...TRANSMISSION AND NETWORKING SYSTEM IN A HOSPITAL NAME: INSTITUTION: Introduction Ultrasound is sound frequencies waves with which are normally higher than those audible to human beings; Ultrasound is used in navigational, electronic, industrial, and also security applications. It is also used in medicine to view internal part/organs of the body of a human being such as muscles, joints, tendons, vessels and internal organs. Its aim is often to exclude any pathology or to find a source of a disease. The practice of examining pregnant women using ultrasound is called obstetric ultrasound and is widely used. Ultrasound machines will differ basing on the features that they mainly offer, (Dion, et al 2002) . The features may comprise freezing an image, image storage, standby mode in saving battery power and ergonomic design, and also water and dust resistance, even oil resistance. There will also be a variety of weights and sizes, ease of use, workflow, durability and service. In the hospital setup, transmitting ultrasound images from the ICU to the main hospital, the outpatient and other relevant hospital departments will entirely depend on the size of the hospital/clinic, some technicians, quality, and versatility of images and videos and storage expected. High-quality ultrasound machines will, therefore, give quality images, videos and any scanned document hence making easing the work and offering quality services while meeting the hospital goals. It is, therefore, imperative that...
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...TRANSMISSION AND NETWORKING SYSTEM IN A HOSPITAL NAME: INSTITUTION: Introduction Ultrasound is sound frequencies waves with which are normally higher than those audible to human beings; Ultrasound is used in navigational, electronic, industrial, and also security applications. It is also used in medicine to view internal part/organs of the body of a human being such as muscles, joints, tendons, vessels and internal organs. Its aim is often to exclude any pathology or to find a source of a disease. The practice of examining pregnant women using ultrasound is called obstetric ultrasound and is widely used. Ultrasound machines will differ basing on the features that they mainly offer, (Dion, et al 2002) . The features may comprise freezing an image, image storage, standby mode in saving battery power and ergonomic design, and also water and dust resistance, even oil resistance. There will also be a variety of weights and sizes, ease of use, workflow, durability and service. In the hospital setup, transmitting ultrasound images from the ICU to the main hospital, the outpatient and other relevant hospital departments will entirely depend on the size of the hospital/clinic, some technicians, quality, and versatility of images and videos and storage expected. High-quality ultrasound machines will, therefore, give quality images, videos and any scanned document hence making easing the work and offering quality services while meeting the hospital goals. It is, therefore, imperative that...
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...Why Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network embarked on the ABC study. 1. Change in macro environment 1) A series of government reform significantly reduce the revenue of hospital. Federal legislative and state legislators have cut the revenue of hospital get from Medicare and Medicaid gradually since 1995. Also, the proliferation of managed care and DRG reimbursement system to outpatient clinics have fixed the revenue of hospital regardless the type or time length of service that hospital provides to patients. 2) The wave of hospital integrations forms strong competitors, i.e. joint ventures with insurance companies or nonprofit or for profit chains that could share expensive diagnostic equipment or financial risks. 2. Network itself： Hospital economies are very often based on public funding and the primary objective of these organizations is much more to provide the acceptable level of care with predefined budget. While the hospital was required to make a 14 million reduction in expenditures in the next two fiscal years, which is 15% of the entire hospitals operating budget. Also, Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network is high cost provider, whose unit of service costs had been rising at a rate of 10% per year. The first step for managers of Network to reduce expenditure while maintain the quality of service is to understand the detailed cost information, however, the current cost system seems cannot fulfill this requirement. 3. The drawbacks of current...
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...Introduction Sutter Health is non-profit network that is made up by community-based health care providers based in Northern California. This network introduced an interface that was aimed at enhancing revenue collection of the facilities from the self pay patient. The System provides a broad range of health care services, including acute, sub¬-acute, long-term, home health and outpatient care, as well as physician delivery systems. These services are provided through an integrated health care delivery approach which gives the System the ability to deliver a full range of health care products and services to the communities it serves. This network identified that traditional payment processing system had limitations that hindered the effective collecting of revenue. These limitations were associated with limited access to accurate information by the account representatives, ineffective performance measures and fragmented centers of service provision. The Sutter health program developed a system that comprised of solutions geared towards overcoming these limitations. This paper will discuss Sutter Health key problems and issues, solutions, results, accounting practices, alternative approach, informed opinion, and the conclusion. The California Sutter Health Approach Sutter Health is a non- for-profit community based healthcare and hospital system based in Sacramento, CA. Sutter Health faced several problems, but the key problem was, Souza and McCarty wrote an article...
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...A Community Leader’s Guide to Hospital Finance E VA L U AT I N G H O W A H O S P I TA L G E T S A N D S P E N D S I T S M O N E Y Prepared for The Access Project by Sarah Gunther Lane, MS Elizabeth Longstreth, BA Victoria Nixon, MS Under the supervision of Nancy Kane, DBA Harvard School of Public Health The Access Project is a national healthcare initiative supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. It works in partnership with Brandeis University’s Heller Graduate School and the Collaborative for Community Health Development. It began its efforts in early 1998. The mission of The Access Project is to improve the health of our nation by assisting local communities in developing and sustaining efforts that improve health care and promote universal coverage, with a focus on people who are without insurance. If you have any questions or would like to learn more about our work, please contact us. The Access Project 30 Winter Street, Suite 930 Boston, MA 02108 Phone: 617-654-9911 FAX: 617-654-9922 E-mail: info@accessproject.org Web site: www.accessproject.org Catherine M. Dunham, Ed.D, National Program Director Mark Rukavina, MBA, Deputy Director for Programs and Policy Gwen Pritchard, MPA, Deputy Director for Communication and Administration © 2001 by The Access Project This publication may be reproduced or quoted with appropriate credit. Acknowledgments The Access Project would like to thank and...
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...Case Study Analysis The Case of the Unhealthy Hospital Submitted by: Date: Contents Introduction 3 Reid to Demonstrate Strategic Leadership Qualities 3 Strategic Planning 4 Invest in Clinics 4 Better Working Relationship with Stakeholders 6 Create Separate Governing Council 6 No Staff Reduction 6 Industry Experts Advise 7 Dan Pellegrini 7 Ellen Schall 7 Keith F. Safian 8 Jane Delgado 8 Bernard Lachner 8 Conclusion 9 References 10 Introduction Bruce Reid has been recently appointed the CEO of Blake Memorial Hospital, which is facing a tough time. The hospital’s financial health was not good; it suffered from rising costs, static revenue, and declining quality of care. Bruce Reid found his assignment far more challenging than he anticipated while taking over the responsibility. Currently the challenges in front of him are to improve the quality of healthcare services and the financial health of the hospital. Reid has less than a week to finalize his $70 million budget for approval by the hospital’s board. One major issue he needs to address is the future of six off-site clinics, which are incurring losses. He needs to arrive at the conclusion to close them or continue operating them as he is stuck between Blake’s responsibility to serve the uninsured on one hand and to remain viable and self-sustaining on other hand. To arrive at the conclusion he has been advised by few industry experts. Reid to Demonstrate Strategic Leadership Qualities ...
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