...ORGANIZATIONAL USE OR NON-USE OF INTERNET TECHNOLOGY IN GHANA, (A STUDY OF New Crystal Health Service LTD) Course: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Course code: MBAE 607 (Term Paper) By Student’s Name: GLADSON GAFOR MORKLI Student’s No: 10588361 APRIL 2016. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1.0 Background of the organization……………………………………………………...... 3 1.1 Application of internet in new crystal hospital service limited………………………. 5 1.2 Benefits derived from internet………………………………………………………... 10 1.3 Enablers and constraints of internet …………………………………………………. 17 1.4 Recommendation to improvement…………………………………………………..… 19 References……………………..……………………………………………………….…. 21 1.0 Background of Organization. Modern institutions in Ghana are being transformed gradually into full technological environment to standing the global competition and improving the quality of service delivery, in this instance hospitals in Ghana are no exception. The New Crystal Health Service LTD was established in 2003 where it operated as a dole proprietorship to cater for the residence within the Ashiama, Tema community, treating local cases catering for maternal cases and other minor cases. In 2005 the sole proprietorship finally was registered and incorporated as a limited liability company under the companies code 1963 (Act 179). The hospital is a private healthcare service provider and forward looking institution with its head office located at block A1 adjacent to the Ashaiman main lorry...
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...Partners HealthCare System (PHS): Transforming Health Care Services Delivery through Information Management Case Description According to government sources, U.S. expenditures on health care in 2009 reached nearly $2.4 trillion dollars ($2.7 trillion by the end of 2010). Despite this vaunting national level of expenditure on medical treatment, death rates due to preventable errors in the delivery of health services rose to approximately 98,000 deaths in 2009. To address the dual challenges of cost control and quality improvement, some have argued that what is needed is an integrated electronic medical record (EMR) system and associated information technology-enabled processes. While the information systems currently available may meet the needs of the industry, the question remains as to what is required within and by the health care services organization to achieve a satisfactory response to these dual challenges. At the present time, Partners Healthcare System (PHS) maintains a centralized digital records library on over 5 million patients, augmented in real-time by data, textual comments, and artifacts (i.e. x-rays, MRI’s, EKG’s, etc.) as these patients visit doctor offices, receive hospital-based or home care services, and obtained prescription medications and other therapies. Procedures are in place to ensure the data quality and integrity of these patient files. Going forward, any health care professional across the network can access a patient’s complete...
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...partnerships over the years; the merger of Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center formed Novus Health Group, Novus partnered with United Health of Wisconsin Insurance Company and became United Health Group. Finally in August of 1999 ThedaCare is born from its modest beginning as a merger of two community hospitals. But In 1997, ThedaCare was an organization facing increased competitive pressure; higher costs, lower reimbursements, and a nationwide nursing shortage. The organization encompassed 3 hospitals, physicians' offices, and a health plan. Regrettably, ThedaCare was not connected to the Internet or intranet. All organizational and business communication was conducted by snail mail, phone, and fax. Current State ThedaCare grew through consolidation and acquisition. It became a fragmented organization growing beyond its ability to operate as a cohesive unit. Its infrastructure had a disparate computer system, a disconnected care process and often-conflicting goals. The ThedaCare organization encompassed 3 hospitals, physician's offices and a Health Plan. Each hospital had its own system for registration, scheduling, pharmacy, lab, radiology and billing. Physician's offices had their own system for registration, scheduling and billing. The Health Plan system included registration, coverage and billing. It was functioning as a conglomeration of independent units. Future State ThedaCare realized its challenges and developed a business plan to overcome them. ThedaCare...
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...Gaul 22 March, 2016 The System Development Life cycle (SDLC) is a model which is used in a project management that involves and describes the stages which are used in information system development project. This life cycle is very useful for the implementation of system development project. The system is a set of components that interact to achieve common goals. It is widely used method of software development and acquisition in information technology area. Various enterprises used this system to achieve a common goal by working together in a proper and systematic way which is useful for achieving the resources and goal. There are various phases which are involved in the process of systematic development life cycle i.e. Planning, Analyzing, designing, supportive and implementation (Joanne Curry, 2007). Planning help us to review the project request, allocate resources and identify project development team. Analyzing is done to conduct preliminary investigations, Designing is done to acquire hardware and software and develop details of systems. Supporting is done to identify errors and monitor system performance and Implementation is a final stage which develops programs and install and convert it into new system. This phase says about its usage in various different enterprises and institutions (Angela Bonin, 2012). The use of System Development Life Cycle in health care institution involves various principal component of a regional hospital care facility. It is much standardised...
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...TRAINING SUPER USERS IN LARGE HEALTH CARE FACILITIES Journal of Information Technology Management ISSN #1042-1319 A Publication of the Association of Management TRAINING SUPER USERS IN LARGE HEALTH CARE FACILITIES CORINNE M. KARUPPAN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY ABSTRACT Training users to learn a new computer application can be a daunting task in large organizations. One solution involves selecting super users who will receive more extensive training and will serve later as the primary source of help to other users in their work unit. Tailored rather than generic training programs seem better suited to providing these super users with the required knowledge base. This article focuses on learning styles as a basis for tailoring training to super users’ needs. Results of a study conducted in a large health care organization suggest that the popular hands-on approach favors individuals with certain learning styles, as indicated by their higher test scores. Implications for providing effective training more uniformly across all super users are made. INTRODUCTION In order to remain competitive, health care organizations have made huge investments in new computer systems and applications. As a result, it is estimated that, in 1999, 95% of organizations involved in health services had their users trained in new computer applications [6]. Hospitals present a unique opportunity to study the training process under the most taxing conditions: number of employees to...
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...Health Informatics and Healthcare Introduction Health informatics as defined by Shi and Singh 2015, as the application of information science to improve efficiency, accuracy, reliability of healthcare service, and inclusion of healthcare delivery. Healthcare informatics is becoming more complex than any other time in recent memory, the foundation needed to bolster device utilization and interoperability is more expanded, and there is even a more extensive scope of utilization to consider. As the populace ages, there is added pressure to provide patient care choices at home and in the community, implying that medical devices are getting to be a piece of a much bigger ecosystem spreading over the steadily developing continuum. This paper will analyze health informatics and discuss its benefits, trends, current issues, the impact health informatics in healthcare settings, and the role of health managers and the future. An interview will be conducted with a health professional to get their point of view of how health informatics have impacted their workplace, with further discussion of human resources, careers and the future. History The U.S. National Library of Medicine defines health informatics as a collaborative effort of designing, developing, adopting, and applying IT-based ideas in healthcare services delivery, management and planning (Kramer, 2012). In 1949, Gustav Wager of Germany founded the first professional organization for...
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...Implementation Guide for the Use of Bar Code Technology in Healthcare Sponsored by Implementation Guide for the Use of Bar Code Technology in Healthcare © 2003 HIMSS 230 E. Ohio St., Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60611 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, adapted, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. HIBCC ® and HIN® System are trademarks of the Health Industry Business Communications Council. ISBN: 0-9725371-2-0 Table of Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi Chapter 1: The Basics What is a bar code? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 How can you benefit from bar coding? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...Supporting Mobile Health Clinics: The Children’s Health Fund of New York City The Children’s Health Fund develops and supports a national of 22 programs and two affiliates in 15 to 17 states in the United States and the District of Columbia. The Children’s Health Fund provides wide-ranging health care to the nation’s most medically underserved children up to the age of 24. The incorporated approach to the health care is dependable with the concept of “enhanced medical home” in which stability of care is ensured via coordination across multiple healthcare providers and specialties. The medical home concept is being adopted as aspect of health care reorganization to ensure a high quality standard of care. This also seeks to raise efficiencies and reduce costs for heightened care. One of the founders and president of the Children Health Fund is Dr. Irwin Redlener. “If you’re not part of the solution, your part of the problem.” In 1987 Children’s Health Fund Redlener co founded it with singer and song writer Paul Simon. The focus was on pediatric care for homeless kids. National network of Children’s Health Projects is delivered via doctors, nurses, and other professionals in a RV size mobile. The purpose of this is to drive to locations where people are in need of medical care. Places like city shelters, homeless families, and in 2009 the program expanded to deep urban areas. The clinics are supported by 41 mobile medical clinics: 32 medical, 3 mental health, 5 dental, 1public...
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...Abstract An electronic bar code medication administration was a system developed and successfully implemented in a 118-bed Veterans Administration hospital in February 2000. Known as Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA), this software proved useful in generating fast and accurate medication administration as well as online patient medication records preservation. The application created by the Eastern Kansas Health Care System in association with Colmery-O’Neil VA Medical Center has been modified a number of times to meet the general requirements in all U.S. Veterans Health Administration medical centers. The implementation of Barcode Medication Administration software has enabled electronic bedside administration of medication of medications. Online Barcode technology is revolutionizing medication administration more aspects than originally thought, and is such a blessing to the business industry in terms of cost cutting. To be honest, the force driving the momentum in the adoption of the new systems has been majorly based on financial, rather than safety concerns. The fee for- service compensation systems has done exceedingly well in increasing revenue to hospitals resulting from additional technology-related charges levied on patients for each dose dispensed (Cohen, 2002). From the evidences adduced in this research, bar code technology seems to hold great promise for general improvements in medication safety and efficiency. Nevertheless, evidence so far is limited...
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...Center for US Health System Reform Business Technology Office The ‘big data’ revolution in healthcare Accelerating value and innovation January 2013 Peter Groves Basel Kayyali David Knott Steve Van Kuiken Contents The ‘big data’revolution in healthcare: Accelerating value and innovation 1 Introduction1 Reaching the tipping point: A new view of big data in the healthcare industry 2 Impact of big data on the healthcare system 6 Big data as a source of innovation in healthcare 10 How to sustain the momentum 13 Getting started: Thoughts for senior leaders 17 1 The ‘big data’ revolution in healthcare: Accelerating value and innovation Introduction An era of open information in healthcare is now under way. We have already experienced a decade of progress in digitizing medical records, as pharmaceutical companies and other organizations aggregate years of research and development data in electronic databases. The federal government and other public stakeholders have also accelerated the move toward transparency by making decades of stored data usable, searchable, and actionable by the healthcare sector as a whole. Together, these increases in data liquidity have brought the industry to the tipping point. Healthcare stakeholders now have access to promising new threads of knowledge. This information is a form of “big data,” so called not only for its sheer volume but for its complexity, diversity, and timeliness...
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...The Health Care reform bill has the creation of an Institute for Comparative Effectiveness as a key component with the hope of improving quality and reducing health care costs. The institute would have the authority to make official determinations of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of medical treatments, procedures, drugs, and medical devices. President Obama's initial nominee as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), former Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD), has likewise proposed the creation of a supremely powerful Federal Health Board, which would have similar authority to make decisions that would be binding on health plans and providers financed by federal taxpayers, and potentially on private health insurance coverage.[2] While Senator Daschle has withdrawn his name from Senate consideration, the concept of such a board or institute is strongly indicative of the Obama Administration's policy orientation toward centralized health policy decision-making. Last year, congress has passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1, which would establish a Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. The bill provides $1.1 billion for the new council and delegate spending authority to the HHS Secretary to investigate the effectiveness of different drugs and medical devices.[3] Of course, there is no reason why anyone should not have access to information on what works and what doesn't. There is no reason...
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...U. S. Health Care System Jeannie M. Horton HSA 500 October 27, 2012 Instructor: Dr. Jerry L. Blackwell U. S. Health Care System This assignment will cover three forces that affect our healthcare system and the development. The three that I will cover are disease, availability, and social organizations. There are more but These three seems to stand out more because they are top of the list on talks when you mention healthcare reform. In this paper I will also address the popularity of information technology in the health care industry. Information is an important part of communication this is a big thing in any rim of business but when it come to healthcare information needs to be organized so that it can be accessible for any level of healthcare. The absence of national health care reform and the growing number of uninsured individuals in the United States have prompted states to develop plans to provide medical care for the low income and the indigent. Many local health departments are not only responsible for the core public health functions; but they are increasingly called upon to provide person health care services for those who cannot afford it. This article chronicles the development of the health care system in the United States and describes the contemporary role of the local public health department. (J Health Hum Serv Adm. 2006 Winter;29(3):336-59). This article will take me right into what I plan to discuss. The first part of discussion...
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...Indian Health Services Program Erika Western Governors University * * * * The Indian Health Service (IHS) was established in 1955 as a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Service. IHS primary responsibilities include providing health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives. The goal of IHS is to raise the health status of the Indian population to the highest possible level while providing health services to Indians from 566 Tribes across the United States. The mission of IHS is to raise the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska Natives to the highest level. (“Agency Overview,” n.d.) * In order to support their mission in raising the health status to the highest possible level and to improve and protect the health of every community, the IHS facilities have chosen to participate in accreditation through the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). Accreditation through JCAHO provides many positive benefits and outcomes for the IHS. By seeking accreditation through JCAHO, the community and patients in the IHS system are able to recognize that IHS is committed to clinical quality. JCAHO accreditation sets standards on levels of quality assessment and quality improvement activities. JCAHO monitors programs that are in place within the organization and reviews policies and procedures to ensure life-safety standards are being met. The benefits to...
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...QUALIFICATION HANDBOOK Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (England) (3978-51/52/53/54/55/56) December 2011 Version 3.1 (February 2012) Qualification at a glance Subject area City & Guilds number Age group approved Entry requirements Assessment Fast track Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (England) 3978 19+ There are no entry requirements Portfolio of Evidence, Practical Demonstration/Assignment. Automatic approval is available for centres offering the 3172 Level 4 NVQ in Health and Social Care – Adults 100/4794/3 and the 3078 Level 4 NVQ in Leadership and Management for Care Services 500/4105/8 Learner logbook and Smartscreen Consult the Walled Garden/Online Catalogue for last dates City & Guilds number 3978-51 Accreditation number 600/0573/7 Support materials Registration and certification Title and level Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (Children and Young People’s Residential Management) Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (Children and Young People’s Management) Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (Children and Young People’s Advanced Practice) Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (Adults’ Residential...
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...Priority Needs According to the World Health Organization (WHO) there are approximately 300 million individuals worldwide suffering from asthma (WHO 2006). It is expected by the year 2025 there will an additional 100 million persons diagnosed with asthma. As the prevalence of this non-communicable disease continues to rise there must me methods implemented to control and monitor. It is with this foundation that a needs assessment was conducted in the emergency department (ED) of the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas. Uncontrolled asthma places an enormous strain on individuals’ and health systems resources, and is a major cause of hospitalizations and poor quality of life (Mash et al. 2009) The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States estimates that asthma accounts for 1.6 million emergency department visits and 440,000 hospitalizations annually. In addition CDC states that the cost of asthma accounts for 10.6 million dollars in primary physician visit and cost US $3,300 per person annually to manage. As the question of quality care continues to plague our society organizations continue to seek me ways and methods to improve the standard of care and reduce cost. AHRQ in its quality initiatives found that the persons diagnosed with asthma continue to increase in the society. WHO, CDC, GINA and AHRQ are all the organizations working together to curb this epidemic that is continuing to rise. The American Nurses Association (2007) stated that the goal...
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