...Positive and Negative Impact of Computer in Society The Social Impact of Computer in Our Society From the time of the invention of the computers to the present day, computers have met tremendous changes. Time to time incorporation of the latest technical achievement has made the use of computer easier. More and more application have been developed and almost all the areas of the professions have been computerized. Computerization is continuously becoming an important part of many organizations. Computer have proved almost all the fields whether related to numeric processing or non numeric processing or document processing in the developed countries and all the walks of life. Computers have become the part of every organization. Beneficial or Positive Impact of Computer in our Society * Any professional individual like doctors, engineers, businessmen etc. undergo a change in their style or working pattern after they get the knowledge of computer. * An individual becomes more competent to take a decisions due to the computer because all the information required to take the decision is provided by the computer on time. As a result, any individuals or institutions get success very fast. * The person working at the managerial level becomes less dependent on low level staff like clerks and accountants. Their accessibility to the information increases tremendously. This improves their working patters and efficiency, which benefit the organization and ultimately affects the...
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...M1 - In this report, I will be further discussing use of the range of ICT, focusing more so on how and why other electronic systems and software are used in different contexts across both health and social care sectors. There are a range of technologies used in HSC and I will assess the impact and/or important of each. A hardware which is used across all health and social care sectors is the computer; this is the most used hardware in all HSC settings since it enables access to a variety of software. In a in a hospital, for example, a computer is extremely important since it handles medical data and has all records stored onto software on the computer. Without having computers in a hospital, medical bills, prescriptions, medication, details of patients and so on, would have to be written down on paper which takes up an enormous amount of time, and if lost, this means it would result in major problems since there is no extra copy. Therefore, the use of computers are very useful in hospitals because data can be backed up if lost or data can be even printed out which saves time and enables hospitals to run more smoothly. Software, such as Electronic...
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... 5. LAWS, REGULATIONS AND POLICY . 5 5.1 Hospital Policy. 5 5.2 Vulnerabilities. 5 6. PERSONNEL 5 6.2 Management. 6 6.3 Operations. 6 6.4 Development 6 6.5 Vulnerabilities. 7 7. Systems and Applications. 7 7.1 Vulnerabilities. 7 8. Information Processing Facilities (Data Centers) 7 8.1 Vulnerabilities 7 9. Systems Development 8 9.1 Vulnerabilities 8 10. Management of IT and Enterprise Architecture 8 11. Client, Server, Telecommunications, Intranets and Extranets 8 11.1 Building Vulnerabilities 8 11.1 Security Perimeter 8 11.1 Server Area 8 12. Summary 8 12.1 Action Plan 8 1. Introduction • At present the Hospital has 250 beds including 40 adult ICU and 8 Pediatric ICU beds. • The Hospital is well equipped with latest technology like 1.5 Tesla MRI, 6 Slice Spiral CT Scan, Digital X-ray, Mammography, Intense Pulse Light (Cosmetic) and Diabetic Foot Care Equipment’s in the year 2007-08, the hospital provided services to 46000 patients. So far the hospital has repaired approximately 2400 cleft lip and cleft palate of children under the "Smile Train Programme" with no cost to the families. 2. Purpose An IT audit was performed for hospital from JUNE 5, 2012 through JUNE 15, 2012. The objectives...
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...Samantha Hicks Week 6 Writing Assignment November 30, 2013 2- In the final part of this case study, Roger Williams was making plans to create a business continuity plan for its information. Why do you think the hospital had not already developed such a plan in the event of a disaster? How is HP’s new IT infrastructure going to help Roger Williams build a robust business continuity plan? The hospital had not already developed a continuity plan for its information in the event of a disaster because Roger Williams Medical Center did not know that it would gain the large amount of information it did. HP’s new IT infrastructure will help Roger Williams build a robust business continuity plan because the new IT infrastructure will help the hospital achieve scalability, availability, and the performance required to process and store information with its new applications. By achieving scalability, Roger Williams will be able to add information as well as change information within a system easily. By achieving availability, the hospital will be able to have the information available when needed. By achieving the performance required to process and store information with its new applications, the hospital will be able to have enough processing power to work with the new applications and store large quantities of data. 3- According to the network infrastructures we discussed in this chapter, how would you characterize Roger Williams’ new IT infrastructure? Justify your answer...
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...Methodist Hospital. Each nurse’s station has computers that are never idle. Technology has improved patient care by leaps and bounds. Patient information is readily available to caregivers with a click of a little button and the help of information technology (IT) and the electronic medical record (EMR). Changes seen from charting to receiving information about a patient . Computers has changed from using a large central computer with many dumb terminals to the microcomputer (Kidd, 2010). Centralized computer services supported by Information Management Services (IMS), which is under the umbrella of information technology (IT). When the microcomputer showed up in the workplace, they connected to the mainframe as a dummy terminal, it did not take long before the development of Local Area Networks (LANs) took over providing a wider area for computers to talk to one another. Today Wide Area Networks (WAN’s) communicate over a wider area in hospitals and businesses. The 90s saw the introduction of the Internet, which enabled communication and collaboration across distances (Ozbolt & Saba, 2008). Billing patients improved as the computer have changed. Billing the customer was the beginning for the need to use computers. The primary focus was to collect funds in a timely manner (Wager, Lee, Glaser, 2009). If the bills went out quickly, the hospital would be paid more quickly. The larger hospitals had no problem instituting computers, but the smaller hospitals used shared...
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...Fuller Community Hospital The network’s fundamental characteristics and components- The Patton-Fuller Community Hospital is serving the public and they have the responsibility of providing good service and protecting each patient’s rights. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) outlines the principles and requirements that the hospital must use to ensure they are protecting patient’s rights. In the Patton-Fuller Community Hospital there are a large amount of Protected Hospital Information that needs to remain protected to meet the standards that HIPAA defines. The network is a 1000BASE-T, which supplies 1Gigabit of Ethernet connectivity over 5 cables (CAT5). This long-haul, copper-based standard is ideally suited for use within the data center because which is used in all the clinical areas of the hospital such as Emergency rooms ,Operating rooms, Pharmacy, Labs, doctor’s offices, Wards, Outpatient examining rooms, and Intensive Care Units (ICU’s) but the throughput of copper wire connections leaves room for improvement. The Administrative sections of the hospital such as IT Department, Admitting/Discharge, Facilities, Human Resources (HR), Finances, and Hospital Senior Management are using 1000BASE-T network structure. “The backbone network structure for the entire hospital is 1000BASE-T. Individual sections of departmental networks such as Radiology use different standards such as 1000 Base. ” Patton-Fuller Community Hospitals current network topology-...
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...Providing the correct network architecture, and infrastructure will allow hospitals to have up-to-date information about all its patients and personnel at all times, to avoid any serious mistakes that can determine the welfare of the patients. Information Systems and Network Overview The Patton-Fuller Community Hospital information technology infrastructure consists of two main areas; the clinical and administrative areas. The clinical areas are • Emergency Rooms and Operating Rooms • Pharmacy • Labs • Radiology • Doctors personal offices • Wards • Outpatient examining rooms • Intensive Care Units The administrative function areas are • Information Technology Department • Admitting/Discharge • Facilities • Human Resources • Hospital Senior Management • Finance Data transmission The hospital uses a technology named Local Area Network (LAN) to transmit data/information within the hospital. The two main reasons to use this technology are for information sharing, and resource sharing. Information sharing allows users to access and modify the same data files, exchange information via e-mail, and use the Internet. One of the main benefits of information sharing is to improve the decision-making process, for example, doctors in different departments have access to the patient files immediately to make important on-the-spot decisions. Resource sharing refers to computers sharing different hardware devices as well as software to save the cost...
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...coming from the oxford dictionary meaning “the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health, especially through the provision of medical services.” With these two word together it changed healthcare tremendously. The use of technology evolved in healthcare as early as in the 20th century. With technology emerging into healthcare there is a lot of research that goes into it before it is released. McGrady, E., Conger, S., Blanke, S., & Landry, B. L. (2010) explained how it is done while the researched three technologies they stated “The purpose of this prescriptive research is to help decision makers become better informed about three technologies emerging in the healthcare arena by providing a basic description of the technology and describing their current applications, future healthcare deployment, potential risks, and related managerial issues. Two of the technologies, radio frequency identification (RFID) and global positioning systems (GPS), are currently available to healthcare organizations and appear capable of decreasing cost but may require significant initial investment and have disruptive potential. The third technology, nanotechnology, has limited current use but may revolutionize both the delivery of medicine and hospital infrastructure management. With cautious attention to managerial issues and meticulous attention to implementation details, healthcare organizations that can successfully navigate the coming technologically driven paradigm shifts...
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...Medical General Hospital Security Policy Introduction Information is an essential asset and is vitally important to Medical General Hospital business operations and long-term viability. Medical General Hospital must ensure that its information assets are protected in a manner that is cost-effective and that reduces the risk of unauthorized information disclosure, modification, or destruction, whether accidental or intentional. The Medical General Hospital Security Policy will adopt a risk management approach to Information Security. The risk management approach requires the identification, assessment, and appropriate mitigation of vulnerabilities and threats that can adversely impact Medical General Hospital information assets and patient records. Objectives • To keep all private patient files confidential • Allow only doctors and nurses access to private documents of patient • Setup username and passwords for employees • Setup badges for contactors and janitors • To comply with all security measures • To make sure private information about company files are prohibited • To make sure all printed documents that can be a threat to the company are shredded and not thrown in trash. • To make sure all staff shutdown workstation after using at the end of the day • To enforce that Surveillance cameras are monitored 24hrs a day 7days a week • To make sure visitors check in at the front before seeing the patient’s • Protect all data from unauthorized...
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...reservations, to online banking, and social media are linking friends and families all over the world. Consumers have access to over 1.5 million apps available in the Apple App Store and Google Play (Warman, 2013). Rochester General Health Systems (RGH) is a local hospital found in Rochester, NY. It is one of three hospitals that residents of Monroe County have access to within a seventeen mile stretch. Now that most hospitals have integrated from the use of paper based patient charts to electronic medical records (EMR), healthcare providers have reached levels of patient care that were not available before. With EMR, patient charts are never lost. Providers are able to send a copy very fast to any office around the world. Doctors can field questions from the patient or another doctor with the virtual chart available for review in a few seconds (Friedman, 2008). All this sound pretty advanced and a huge step for furthering patient care. The Future of Hospitals The implications of the web on the future of the hospital business are amazing. With the use of the internet, the hospitals are launching forward with state of the art technology and care. With the use of the internet there is an increase in the use of webinars. Webinars are online educational presentations during which participating viewers can submit questions and comment (Merriam-Webster). Webinars can also be used for meetings, trainings, lectures, events and presentations online. Webinars offers a wealth...
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...Adverse Trend and Data Management in Hospital University of Phoenix HCS/482 Adverse Trend and Data Management in Hospital The flow chart in the appendix 1 provides a comprehensive analysis of the adverse trend and data management that could occur within my organization. In depth, the research would evaluate patients’ healthcare and whether it is provided in an accurate and professional manner. To gather facts and information about the management in hospital, this research would follow up various steps. First, the research would evaluate how healthcare providers administer medical care and whether or not patients receive adequate support that boosts their well-being. Second, the study would evaluate whether the care provided in the hospital aligns with the medical standards. Conducting this research would create a strong platform to understand the past and present management and further work hard to eliminate any activity, condition, or medical errors that would hinder quality healthcare. Research Questions It is a well-documented fact that, quality medical care is of essence in reducing high mortality rates that occur as a result of poor medication and services provided (Flores, Win & Susilo, 2010). With this in mind, this research would investigate various factors that hinder healthcare providers from administering quality healthcare. To fully gather facts and information, this research would answer the following questions; do patients receive quality care and what...
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...Gulf Coast Hospital Eva Michelle Carlin HCS/533 October 20, 2014 Dr. Kevin Lett Gulf Coast Hospital The Gulf Coast Hospital, a 350-bed facility, is located in New Orleans, Louisiana along the Gulf coast. The Gulf coast has been hit with numerous hurricanes and tropical storms and in 2005 Katrina hit land. Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 season and made her way onto the shores of the Gulf coast on the morning of Monday, August 29, in southeast Louisiana. The storm surge was the cause of much of the destruction. The levee system catastrophically filed resulting in major flooding and destroyed the patients files stored in the basement of the hospital. It is managements plans to keep patients records secure by implementing new policies and procedures for responding to an emergency that has the potential of damaging systems that contain electronic protected health information by scanning paper medical records into the computer, establishing procedures for creating and maintaining backups of any electronic protected health information, (backups that are exact copies and retrievable at any time, but also kept secure from unauthorized access) and storing the backups off site. In 2000 Gulf Coast Hospital started moving the paper files to the EMR and started staff training on the use of EMR. Part of the job as administrator of a hospital in hurricane prone areas is to train the staff for the future hurricane...
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...accessibility to patient information. For example, by having the same EHR as the hospital the physicians would be able to view laboratory results or radiological records rather than wait for results to be sent to them (Sayles, 2013). This creates a quicker response of care to the patients. Additionally, by this exchange of data, providing the ability to create orders in an instant for their patients admitted to the hospital. A disadvantage would be the potential cost to the affiliated physicians to acquire the same EHR, although, the concept of cloud computing is an option (Sayles, 2013). Another drawback of acquiring the same EHR is being compatible with the systems currently in place, such as a stand-alone system for prescribing medications. The physicians are unable to send a medication order because the standalone device used by those physicians is not compatible with the hospitals’ current HIS system....
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...has done so in 70% of the nation’s hospitals. McKesson’s software helps all clinicians in charting and treating their patients in a quick and easy manor. McKesson is one of America’s oldest and largest health care companies. McKesson wants to bring together clinical knowledge and technology to create a better work environment through quality health care services and an easier quicker way to chart a patient’s information and progress without taking away from the bedside care. McKesson is all about integrity, customer –first, accountability, respect and excellence. McKesson Horizon Emergency Care Decision Support System In an ever changing world, hospitals are being challenged every day with the increasing elderly in society and their multiple medical problems. The focus is more on the collaborating of hospitals, physicians, and tax payers. Due to all the problems that affect healthcare reform such as preventable readmission, decrease in reimbursements, infections due to hospital stays and financial penalties, patient safety has become the utmost concern for doctors, nurses and ancillary help. One way to collaborate between providers and payers is through a comprehensive electronic health record. A way to support safe, efficient and quality care is through meaningful use. What is meaningful use? Meaningful use is the use of a certified electronic health record in a meaningful use manner such as e-prescribing, for...
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...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The ways computer application is embraced in every aspect of human life shows that every activity, organization cooperation, companies, hospitals; need to be computerized. Hospital activities are not left out. The information revolution that has moved from the individual age to the information age is a result of several developments in electronic and information. The high to revolution and computer in particular is availability of power at modest cost for the consumption of business organization makes the difference. Furthermore, it is very necessary to survey continually the use of the newly discovered or developers to make changes of existing technology. This fact points the need to document every aspect of computer system. Attention should be turned towards reduced need to understand the technicalities, which the system developers bothered with in order to design and implement a new system. The activities of hospital which includes personal record, drug inventory, disease inventory, death statistics and birth statistics keeps on growing from time to time due to apparent population explosion. These areas can benefit from the information technology tool called computer. The control and management of the data call for database management system (DBMS), which handle structure data that will store manual on card index or cabinet containing files, (Muzzi M, 2010). BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Birth and death records are probably...
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