...Partners Healthcare System (PHS): Transforming Health Care Services Delivery Through Information Management Harvard Case Solution & Analysis PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM (PHS): TRANSFORMING HEALTH CARE SERVICES DELIVERY THROUGH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Question 01 The Partners Healthcare System (PHS) faced a lot of obstacles in implementing the ERP system whose sole responsibility was to make the current processes as efficient as possible. In addition to this, once this information system is along with Computerized Patient Order Entry (CPOE) system then it would help the health care professionals in accessing patient complete profile from the scratch that is the patients’ first visit to the health practitioner. However, there was a lot of resistance regarding the system from the doctors. It is reported that two-third of the doctors had prior links to the hospitals and were hesitant to adopt the latest technology. In addition to this, the same number of doctors who had affiliations with the PHS hospital also met their patients at some other venues. The already established workforce lacked in its ability to use the advanced technology and was reluctant to this type of system. As they were trained to write prescriptions manually, hence they were not accepting this new mode of data reposition. In addition to a lack in ability to apt the latest technology, they also lacked the basic infrastructure or resources to finance this implementation. Moreover, if the technology gets implemented...
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...Launching HealthVine: Healthcare information management mobile service Time is of the essence when it comes to healthcare delivery. Maintaining valuable prescription is critical. Searching from piling medical records, prescriptions and bills is a hassle especially during an emergency It’s never too late when you have access to medical history, fast and updated. There is a need for healthcare information that connects patients, doctors and pharmacists. A new form of healthcare information management is yet to be tapped Who are in healthcare information management business today? (for diabetes management) (Good tie ups/network) (Allows you to store and manage all health information ) (Indian website connecting colleges, office & hospitals) Where’s the gap Increasing costs Decreasing platforms Blue Ocean Strategy Eliminate Raise Documentation & delays Portability Reduce Create Dependence on fresh reports Convenience partners (Travel, Insurance, Pharma cos can partner) The Solution HealthVine “Healthcare information on the move” Accessible Convenience Timely & updated HealthVine Portability Availability Relevant Vision To be a world class seamless and timely healthcare information management provider Scope of Business: Live Quotes • “There is a huge vacuum present in healthcare information resources in comparison to credible players like WebMD, Revolution health etc. in the US and thus people...
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...words (2 pages) excluding diagrams, illustrations or other addendum. You are not required to use APA formatting. I expect the response to immediately follow the question as follows: 1. Describe… Response 2. Discuss… Response And so forth… ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL EXAM ABC HEALTHCARE CASE BACKGROUND Healthcare companies, like ABC Healthcare, that operate as for-profit entities, are facing a multitude of challenges. The regulatory environment is becoming more restrictive, viruses and worms are growing more pervasive and damaging, and ABC Heathcare’s stakeholders are demanding more flexible access to their systems. The healthcare industry is experiencing significant regulatory pressures that mandate prudent information security and systems management practices. Furthermore, the continued pressure to reduce cost requires that management focus on streamlining operations, reducing management overhead and minimizing human intervention. The regulatory focus at ABC Healthcare is on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). Both pieces of legislation highlight the need for good systems administration and controls, but focus on different aspects of the business. The main focus of HIPAA is to protect personally identifiable health information while SOX is concerned with data that impacts financial reporting. Violations...
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...(depending on region of assignment) on national or regional culture and/or doing business in the focal region. Accompanying spouses/partners had access to a similar library.‘Interviews and conversations’ with Tex-Mark employees with country experiences. 3. ‘Language courses’. Attendance at elective ‘survival level’ language classes. These courses last from eight to twelve weeks, with three course meetings a week. Tex-Mark will pay for spouses/partners as well. In-country training and development Upon arrival, Tex-Mark staff in the local operation will assist the accompanying spouse/partner with job search activities. They will assist with finding children acceptable schooling situations. Where possible, Tex-Mark staff will endeavour to provide a social support network. Repatriation Upon return all expatriates are required to go through a debriefing and career counselling session with HR staff. This should be held within two months of the person’s re-entry to the home location. v IHRM Case 1 – Spanning the Globe 3 Case 1 Activity In the role of Eric 1. Summarize your thoughts on the problems at hand, alternative solutions and your strategy on how to proceed at the forthcoming meeting. 2. How will your proposal solve the problems you have defined? 3. How can you defend your solution from budgetary concerns? In what way is your approach both a solution to the...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Situational Background The objective of this case study is to help our client, a pharmaceutical manufacturer to assess investment opportunities in a segment outside its core business of drugs and vaccines to enable a quick scale up. Problem Setting The problem setting can be broadly divided into Identifying investment strategy, investment segments, screening potential targets using a framework and conducting due diligence on selected targets. A framework is to be developed by which we can evaluate the companies shortlisted by the client for investment and help us determine the most attractive company for investment. Methodology Following is the methodology adopted by us to achieve the end result * Classify the companies into its respective segments based on the product/service offerings. * Using the Scorecard Method, the following parameters along with its assigned weights are evaluated and scored based on the data given in the case and the computed data in the appendix A. Evaluation Parameters | Weights (%) | Strength of the Entrepreneur and Management team. | 0-30 | Size of the Opportunity | 0-25 | Strength of the Product and Intellectual Property | 0-15 | Competitive Environment | 0-10 | Strength of Marketing/Sales/Partners | 0-10 | Need for additional rounds of funding | 0-10 | To help in assessing these companies, following are few of the assumptions and conclusions that were made to assign weightage for...
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...HAS 534 Case Study Riviera Medical Center Through the 1980’ and 1990’ Riviera Medical Center (RMC) become technological leader in the region. RMC had top of the line Cardiac, and Women and Children’s center. The whole workforce was highly trained. RMC was also at his top financial era. At that moment they had only one competitor in their region-Northern Valley Medial Center (NVMC). NVMC new approach was focusing on building base model medical group practice as groundwork to expand referral base. NVMC reinvested money in their new strategy plan instead updating and developing new facilities. While RMC strategy plan was focused on independent physicians attracted by the high tech authority provided by RMC. At that time RMC signed contract with Riviera County to acquire and close the old County Hospital, which stopped the county from selling the hospital to different investor, and the same time boost RMC’s census. Significant number of old County Hospital was uninsured and underinsured population, which created risk of changing demographics. Administration had concluded that the profit of additional volume would prevail demographics change over the next years. In this particular case, there is one major problem and all other problems seemed to have stemmed off this one. Unfortunately administration miscalculated profits and undervalued effects and pace of patient demographics changes. First immediate outcome of the contract was increase in number of emergency room...
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...about 15 to 30 million men suffering from erectile dysfunction worldwide. This condition is a pretty common case and not an easy one to get rid of. There are a lot of possible solutions for this condition but not all of them are applicable to anyone with erectile dysfunction. Probably the most known solution for this condition is to take pills such as Viagra and other less popular pills named Levitra and Cialis. These pills are known to create short-term solutions for men suffering from erectile dysfunction. They were designed to help men overcome their anxiety in having sexual intercourse with their partners. By taking these pills before the actual sexual intercourse, men would gain enough confidence to open up to their partners,...
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...Care Healthcare Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Management plays a vital role in our hospitals today. With the growing cost of healthcare and new technologies, it is vital for hospitals to run as efficiently as possible and without jeopardizing care. To the materials manager and to the financial minds of a hospital the area of supply chain is a tedius task at best, the kind of planning, strategizing and measuring that seldom goes recognized and rewarded. The work involved with inventory control fits tightly within that description. In many hospitals today, it is easy for inventory control to go astray and become uncontrolable. This is the case with I Care Healthcare System. Too many people with too much access to too much product procurement are controlling supplies and equipment coming into the facility without any regulation or little oversight. While the blame for over-ordering is frequently pointed at nursing staff, famous for squirreling away unseen, already paid-for stocks of goods, they are not the only offenders. More accurately, when it comes to inventory, it's the system that fails a hospital, not its people, over what is essentially an asset management issue. Currently I Care Healthcare System uses a mainframe that was develped internally with an outdated materials management system that allows you to generate purchase orders, but is lacking in running reports that track the usage. This is not uncommon in the hospital materials management environment...
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...start-up that has been formed with the intention of pioneering a new direction of pathology reporting which is faster and more accessible to healthcare professionals. The company has a great potential for growth and opportunity in the current evolving healthcare setting where digitalisation has become a key priority in the quest to improving healthcare outcomes for patients. Market Overview The importance of technology and information technology (IT) systems in meeting the challenges placed on the health care system is becoming increasingly apparent. The NHS is currently driving a technological revolution with the vision of becoming paperless by 2018. As a result, there is an increase in demand for SME’s like PathWay to contribute to increasing efficiency and working systems in the NHS by providing technological solutions. Our aim is to launch our product one hospital at a time, beginning with UCLH. PathWay will address the problems faced in monitoring patient’s results in a busy healthcare setting. It will improve efficacy and resolve dependability on having to log on at selected terminals to receive patient results. As a result, it will allow healthcare professionals to provide immediate and timely care to patients at risk. This concept will be of great benefit not only to the product users, but also to patients as it improves healthcare outcomes by improving efficiency in the NHS. There is a great potential for growth for PathWay in the market of this NHS technological revolution...
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...Partners Healthcare Case Aanlysis by az2311 | studymode.com Statement of Problem Partners Healthcare had established several financial resources pools, such as the short-term pool (STP) and the LTP, so that they can satisfy different needs of the several hospitals in the network. In more detail, the STP was invested with very high-quality, short-term fixed-income financial instruments. The average maturity of these instruments is about one to two years. STP is always treated as the risk-free part of the hospitals’ holdings. On the other hand, the LTP is thought as the risky part of holdings. It consists of different forms of equity and a smaller fixed-income part. In order to diversify the risks of the LTP, the Partners Investment Committee introduced a new type of assets, real assets, into the original LTP during the past years. Both of the assets’ performance turned to be excellent during 2004. As a result, the Investment Committee was considering expanding the real-asset segment of the LTP. Michael Manning, the deputy treasurer of Partners Healthcare System, was asked to recommend the size and the composition for the real-asset portfolio contributed to the $2.4 billion long-term pool (LTP) in the Partners. Facts and Analysis Due to the fact that different Partners Healthcare hospitals might have different acceptable risk levels for their investment portfolio then the most reasonable solution would be to invest both in risk-free STP and risky LTP. By choosing different...
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...Record (CPOE/EHR) system implemented by Partners Healthcare System (PHS) during 2002-2003 for all its constituent practitioners. It looks at the problems faced during implementation of the system and identifies new potential problems that the system may encounter. Particularly in consideration is the effort it takes to convince healthcare professionals to switch to CPOE/EHR, the cost of installing the system, the potential of automating redundancies in the system and the potential of healthcare professionals getting skewed data out of the system suggestions. It looks at the management challenges faced by the administration when bringing about CPOE/EHR to PHS and divulges in some techniques that were used for tackling these issues. It defines ways in which the system is being used to improve patient healthcare and save millions of dollars for the government, healthcare facilities and patients alike. This thesis also finds ways to combat the potential problems that may arise later and the system and looks at related government policies and statutes which apply to the implementation. Finally some metrics of success are discussed their effectiveness in driving a result. Problem Definition CPOE/EHR Implementation can face a host of problems that can hinder the process flow and the acceptability of the system by the people involved. The initial problem is convincing everyone involved to not only consider CPOE/EHR as an effective solution but helping them switch over to a system...
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...Health Care Reform Paper Medical care for an aging population has a negative outcomes and the aging population are the most significant consumers of health resources across both acute and community settings. Both formal systems and families are involved in this care of elders. This paper reviews health care issues for older adults and addresses the impact of frailty on the future health care system. It also presents challenges for future care, creative solutions that are currently being tested and explored, and suggestions for future nursing priorities. Challenges in the care of frail elders include: the organization and sustainability of the continuum of services, resource allocation, and cultural competence in service delivery. Creative solutions include intensive case management programs, targeting at risk older adults, partnerships with families, Medicare and the health care reform. In the coming years, there will be unprecedented demand for all goods and services required by individuals in their seventh through tenth decades of life. To meet the growing need, both the impressive heterogeneity of the aging population, and the diversity of preferences, requirements, and trajectories of health and life must be appreciated. Consider the real possibility that a family might include three generations, all over the age of 65. Imagine a centenarian woman with an 84 year-old daughter, and a 65 year-old grandson. This is not an unrealistic scenario for the 50,545 centenarians currently...
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...Turning Point? IQ Medical Services (“IQMS”) A Live Case Prepared for Florida Intercollegiate Graduate/MBA Business Case Competition Laura Kozloski Steve Barnett Executive Summary IQ Medical Services (“IQMS”) is based in Miami, Florida, and was founded in 2007. It is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company that operates globally in collaboration with major healthcare corporations such as General Electric (“GE”) Healthcare. IQMS’ purpose has been to design, construct, and service best-in-class turnkey cyclotron facilities for healthcare systems and academic institutions worldwide; their vison – how they “see” they can accomplish this mission – has been to partner with cyclotron manufacturers such as GE and Siemens. Cyclotron facilities produce contrast media drugs known as FDGs (FluoroDeoxyGlucose) that are injected into patients to detect and diagnosis serious medical conditions. The most common usage is for PET studies, which are diagnostic procedures to determine the extent to which cancer may have spread within a patient’s body. IQMS has partnered with a variety of cyclotron equipment manufacturers accounting for 80% of the 65 projects IQMS has completed in over 30 countries worldwide since 2007. IQMS’ core expertise includes: PET/SPECT Radiopharmaceutical contrast media injection production Equipment selection, procurement and installation, start-Up and qualification with integrated multivendor warranty and service solutions FDA and equivalent regulatory consulting services...
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...3) Violence against women: Too many women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. Source: World Health Organization. Global and regional estimates of violence against women: prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence 2013. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/85239/1/9789241564625_eng.pdf. Many women have poor reproductive health, mental health and social wellbeing as a result of violence from sexual intimate partners and non-partners. Evidence: Gender based violence is a worldwide problem and constitutes a source of substantial morbidity and mortality2. According to the World Health Organization, 36% of women...
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...Turning Point? IQ Medical Services (“IQMS”) A Live Case Prepared for Florida Intercollegiate Graduate/MBA Business Case Competition Laura Kozloski Steve Barnett Executive Summary IQ Medical Services (“IQMS”) is based in Miami, Florida, and was founded in 2007. It is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company that operates globally in collaboration with major healthcare corporations such as General Electric (“GE”) Healthcare. IQMS’ purpose has been to design, construct, and service best-in-class turnkey cyclotron facilities for healthcare systems and academic institutions worldwide; their vison – how they “see” they can accomplish this mission – has been to partner with cyclotron manufacturers such as GE and Siemens. Cyclotron facilities produce contrast media drugs known as FDGs (FluoroDeoxyGlucose) that are injected into patients to detect and diagnosis serious medical conditions. The most common usage is for PET studies, which are diagnostic procedures to determine the extent to which cancer may have spread within a patient’s body. IQMS has partnered with a variety of cyclotron equipment manufacturers accounting for 80% of the 65 projects IQMS has completed in over 30 countries worldwide since 2007. IQMS’ core expertise includes: PET/SPECT Radiopharmaceutical contrast media injection production Equipment selection, procurement and installation, start-Up and qualification with integrated multivendor warranty and service solutions FDA and equivalent regulatory consulting services...
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