John Reites presented on effective management of observational and post-marketing studies through practical innovation. He discussed reducing burden on sites and patients by making studies more flexible and using technology. Leveraging technology includes using a single website for study information and allowing various participation methods. Ensuring operational clarity with clear plans, communication strategies, and defined roles and decision-making provides effective project management. The presentation focused on best practices in these three areas to simplify studies through innovative operational approaches.
This document provides a summary and experience for Stephanie Sharick, including her contact information and objective. It details her experience as an Office Manager for Becker & Scott Orthodontics from 2015 to present, as a Business Analyst for HEALTHCAREfirst from 2013 to 2015, and various roles at CoxHealth/Cerner ITWorks from 2002 to 2013 including Application Analyst, IT Business Analyst, and Clinic Manager for a Regional Perinatal Center. Her experience demonstrates leadership, process improvement, and using technology to optimize clinical work processes.
Pamela Wilhelm seeks a position utilizing her skills in process analysis, project management, system documentation, and as a subject matter expert. She has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently as Manager and SME for Aggregate Spend at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, where she led transparency reporting efforts and ensured accurate and timely data. Prior to that, she managed clinical operations systems and processes at Boehringer Ingelheim and various IT roles at other companies.
Office Pride Commercial Cleaning Services wants to improve its inventory management system. The proposal evaluates using QR codes, which would allow employees to scan products and update inventory levels in a database. Benefits include increased efficiency and automated replenishment. However, QR codes require employee buy-in and carry security risks like hacking. The recommendation is to implement QR codes for inventory tracking initially while monitoring usage, and consider expanding use over time if successful.
How to Use Machine Learning in Clinical Research Right Now_.pptxMMS Holdings
This document summarizes a presentation on using machine learning in clinical research. It introduces the presenters and their company, which is a CRO specializing in data science for clinical research. The presentation will demonstrate machine learning concepts like prediction and inference using simulated clinical trial data. It will cover preparing the data, using machine learning algorithms, and evaluating predictions. The conclusion is that combining real-world and clinical trial data with machine learning opens up possibilities to better understand patient subgroups and outcomes.
The document discusses Accenture's commitment to antitrust and competition law compliance. It emphasizes designing all activities to maintain strict compliance and notes that both Accenture and its clients depend on good judgment to avoid improper discussions or activities. It recommends consulting legal counsel if there are concerns that a subject or activity may not be appropriate.
The document describes an intelligent decision system that can be used to support business innovation assessments. The system was developed as part of an EU-funded project to create a model for assessing innovation capabilities in businesses. It uses an evidential reasoning approach to model uncertainties and aggregate information from self-assessments. The system provides various outputs like rankings, strengths/weaknesses identification, and sensitivity analysis to help with assessment consistency, effectiveness and clear communication. It has applications in areas like business excellence, risk, supplier and customer satisfaction assessments.
John Reites presented on effective management of observational and post-marketing studies through practical innovation. He discussed reducing burden on sites and patients by making studies more flexible and using technology. Leveraging technology includes using a single website for study information and allowing various participation methods. Ensuring operational clarity with clear plans, communication strategies, and defined roles and decision-making provides effective project management. The presentation focused on best practices in these three areas to simplify studies through innovative operational approaches.
This document provides a summary and experience for Stephanie Sharick, including her contact information and objective. It details her experience as an Office Manager for Becker & Scott Orthodontics from 2015 to present, as a Business Analyst for HEALTHCAREfirst from 2013 to 2015, and various roles at CoxHealth/Cerner ITWorks from 2002 to 2013 including Application Analyst, IT Business Analyst, and Clinic Manager for a Regional Perinatal Center. Her experience demonstrates leadership, process improvement, and using technology to optimize clinical work processes.
Pamela Wilhelm seeks a position utilizing her skills in process analysis, project management, system documentation, and as a subject matter expert. She has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently as Manager and SME for Aggregate Spend at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, where she led transparency reporting efforts and ensured accurate and timely data. Prior to that, she managed clinical operations systems and processes at Boehringer Ingelheim and various IT roles at other companies.
Office Pride Commercial Cleaning Services wants to improve its inventory management system. The proposal evaluates using QR codes, which would allow employees to scan products and update inventory levels in a database. Benefits include increased efficiency and automated replenishment. However, QR codes require employee buy-in and carry security risks like hacking. The recommendation is to implement QR codes for inventory tracking initially while monitoring usage, and consider expanding use over time if successful.
How to Use Machine Learning in Clinical Research Right Now_.pptxMMS Holdings
This document summarizes a presentation on using machine learning in clinical research. It introduces the presenters and their company, which is a CRO specializing in data science for clinical research. The presentation will demonstrate machine learning concepts like prediction and inference using simulated clinical trial data. It will cover preparing the data, using machine learning algorithms, and evaluating predictions. The conclusion is that combining real-world and clinical trial data with machine learning opens up possibilities to better understand patient subgroups and outcomes.
The document discusses Accenture's commitment to antitrust and competition law compliance. It emphasizes designing all activities to maintain strict compliance and notes that both Accenture and its clients depend on good judgment to avoid improper discussions or activities. It recommends consulting legal counsel if there are concerns that a subject or activity may not be appropriate.
The document describes an intelligent decision system that can be used to support business innovation assessments. The system was developed as part of an EU-funded project to create a model for assessing innovation capabilities in businesses. It uses an evidential reasoning approach to model uncertainties and aggregate information from self-assessments. The system provides various outputs like rankings, strengths/weaknesses identification, and sensitivity analysis to help with assessment consistency, effectiveness and clear communication. It has applications in areas like business excellence, risk, supplier and customer satisfaction assessments.
Applying Technologies Across the End-to-End Pharmacovigilance Process to Incr...MyMeds&Me
MyMeds&Me CEO Andrew Rut and Oracle Health Science's Director of Safety Analytics, Michael Braun-Boghos review the positive impacts of technology on current pharmacovigilance processes.
How to Determine the Root Cause Analysis Techniques in a Management System?PECB
The understanding of these techniques and their effective implementation by the auditee (Process owner) in any Management system audit shall go along way to ensure that the problem does not recur and this improves the customer or stakeholder confidence, ensure safety of personnel and saves the organization money.
Main points covered:
• What is the Root Cause Analysis Technique?
• How to Ensure customers and stakeholder confidence
• Why is important to determine the Root Cause Analysis?
Presenter:
This webinar was presented by Eng. Isaac Mbuvi is an Electrical and communications Engineer. A holder of Master’s Degree in Occupational Safety and Health. He is an Environmental consultant, a certified trainer with PECB for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 Management systems. He is also a certified Lead Auditor in ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.
He has worked in the Oil and Gas industry for the last 14 years and has built his career in the Management systems as an Lead Auditor, Auditor and auditee for more than seven years in various sectors such as Pipeline transport, Health, Construction, Marine, Energy, etc.
Link of the recorded webinar published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DBljEiv9tAw
Journey to Safety Excellence – Tagline or Tangible Resource?browzcompliance
In 2014, the National Safety Council kicked off an initiative called “The Journey to Safety Excellence,” a result of the Council’s understanding that many small to medium sized companies do not have the same safety resources and networking capabilities as larger corporations.
To that end, the Council put together free assessment tools, resource information and a networking structure that smaller companies could utilize at no cost — so they could start down their own path of safety excellence. In this presentation, attendees will learn how businesses of many types can benefit in utilizing the free resources.
This webinar takes the audience through the steps of continuous safety process improvement, and talks through a real-life scenario of how a company could utilize each aspect of the Journey to Safety Excellence resources.
To join or learn more about The Journey to Safety Excellence, visit: http://www.nsc.org/Measure/Pages/journey-to-safety-excellence.aspx.
Mohd Qamaruddin is a software tester with over 10 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He has expertise in testing healthcare applications like Facets and GPS for clients such as UnitedHealth Group. Some of his key responsibilities include writing test cases, performing different types of testing including functionality testing and user acceptance testing, defect reporting, and ensuring compliance with standards like HIPAA. He is proficient with testing tools like QTP and quality management tools like HP Quality Centre.
Contractor Safety Beyond Compliance - Modeling OSHA’s recommended best practi...browzcompliance
This document discusses OSHA's recommended best practices for contractor management based on a safety and health management system approach. It outlines OSHA's 7 core elements for an effective safety program - management leadership, worker participation, hazard identification, hazard prevention and control, training, program evaluation, and communication. The presentation provides an example of how these elements could be used to develop assessment questions to evaluate contractors' safety programs and ensure they meet best practices. Implementing these practices helps protect all workers on a job site.
Presented by:
Bank of America
QuantumConnect
We will examine the three pillars of successfully running learning as a business: standardization, technology, and resourcing.
For Learning to be a legitimate business, it must possess the infrastructure fundamentals that enables all other business units to thrive.
Successful business requires: your ability to produce a consistent and reliable product, the technology that provides you the visibility to lead and results you can measure, and your ability to effectively optimize your resources (internal and outsourced).
To effectively learn a business, you must:
Understand the secrets to successfully aligning your resources, including outsourcing
Understand the workflow technology required to run your organization as a business
Understand the challenges and techniques used to standardize development across an enterprise.
These are possibly the largest barriers to success and are most certainly the most notable areas that are subject to failure.
Tackling the Challanges of Pharma ManufacturingJason Corder
By nature, pharmaceutical manufacturing operations are complex, inefficient, and consequently costly. Due to the inherent complexities, the cost of poor efficiency and its root causes are often not well understood by many manufacturers.
The document discusses the results of a 2014 survey on the use of data-driven approaches in clinical trials. It finds that while many respondents believe their use of such approaches has advanced in recent years, there is still significant room for improvement. Outsourcing relationships were seen as both promoting and potentially inhibiting their use, by increasing access to data and expertise but also sometimes creating challenges for change management and planning. Overall, the survey highlights opportunities to further apply analytical techniques to optimize clinical development processes and outcomes.
Jere Steven Dorough has over 20 years of experience in project management and technical support roles at BJC Healthcare in St. Louis, Missouri. He has managed projects involving clinical and IT systems and supported over 20 applications. Dorough is skilled in requirements assessment, problem management, technical support, and building strong client relationships. He has a background in computer science and business and is passionate about project management and building high-performing teams.
Solution Assessment Method Guide & Template by Expert ToolkitExpert Toolkit
The solution assessment method guide & template is a proven approach for evaluating business improvement solutions and initiatives across a range of essential dimensions.
Dorothy Mitchell is a seasoned business professional with over 15 years of experience in training, operations, and quality analysis in the insurance and banking industries. She has a passion for training and developing others. Mitchell is skilled in driving process improvements, implementing systems to increase efficiencies, and developing documentation. She has competencies in operations, claims processing, training, administration, productivity, process improvement, quality assurance, trend analysis, documentation, leadership, communication, and technology.
The document describes the TCL Test Process Health Check, which is an independent assessment of an organization's test effectiveness and efficiency. It quantifies the real cost of testing, measures the current testing capability, and benchmarks processes against industry standards to identify improvements. The health check gathers data to provide an objective measurement of the current testing function and recommend suitable changes to processes, operations, learning, business benefits, and financial returns. The results report on quality, cost effectiveness, speed, certainty of delivery, risk prevention, and compliance. Benefits include answering questions about testing quality, optimizing test spend, and achieving best-in-class testing.
eCompliance, Chris Ferguson_The Business Value of Safety (ROI)eCompliance
As safety professionals, we can often do a better job of
communicating the business value of safety and viewing
safety as an integrated part of business strategy and
daily operations. More often than not, we disregard the
connection and incorrectly evaluate the ROI of safety.
Join Chris Ferguson and Adrian Bartha as they address
the key areas your business should focus on when
evaluating the value of safety.
This document provides guidance on incorporating technology into a business strategy. It recommends taking an end-to-end approach to understand opportunities, conducting design thinking to solve problems, researching the technology landscape, and considering the healthcare ecosystem and how technology can address patient needs. The implementation plan involves applying a data strategy, using digital data to gain clinical insights, cultivating stakeholder buy-in, and acknowledging an evolving strategy to enable sustainable transformation through an innovation ecosystem.
The document discusses key factors for a successful EHR implementation. It emphasizes that the project should be user-driven, not IT-driven, with users rigorously documenting workflows and processes upfront. Users should control aspects like responsibilities, deadlines and interfaces, while IT focuses on computational logic, data, and infrastructure. Failure is common if EHR is used to automate poor existing processes rather than improve workflows. For the project to succeed, users, IT, and vendors must work together from the beginning with a detailed plan focused on usability and meaningful use for clinical staff.
How to Make Postmarket Surveillance More Cost EffectiveApril Bright
When it comes to postmarket surveillance (PMS), it’s common for the costs to outweigh the value. But, by working with the right team, you’ll be able to execute a study that maximizes return on investment and minimizes the financial impact of conducting further observational research. Postmarket study challenges that must be addressed include enrollment delays, patient attrition, long-term follow-up, resourcing demands and global payor requirements. This session will provide a case study of one orthopaedic company’s seamless transition between postmarket approval and post-approval studies.
Successful EHR Implementation - Strategy & TipsJames Muir
Implementing an EHR is a complex project that requires extensive planning and involvement from all stakeholders. Key steps include defining goals and metrics, analyzing workflows, selecting an appropriate vendor, and providing comprehensive training for end users. A successful implementation follows best practices such as establishing executive support, implementing in increments, thoroughly testing the system, and providing ongoing support and feedback after going live. Shadowing providers during training and post go-live periods is critical to ensure adoption and maximize benefits of the new EHR system.
The document discusses strategic consulting services from PEPR Consulting to help life science companies increase productivity and efficiency in their lab operations through a seven-step program. This includes an analysis of current processes and systems, a Multi Moment Analysis to identify inefficient tasks, development of optimized future processes and systems requirements, creation of a business case, and support in selecting and deploying new lab informatics solutions. The consulting aims to realize improvements of up to 30% for clients.
What Is It? Product Development vs. Product Management April Bright
This session will focus on the respective roles and responsibilities of the Product Manager vs. the Development Engineer from a product’s inception through its lifecycle maintenance. Attendees will learn how to leverage the cross-functional product team to deliver results, business vs. technical aspects of product development, putting the customer first and navigating the organization in order to get things done.
This document discusses several techniques for project estimation: expert judgment, which relies on subject matter experts; parametric estimating, which uses quantitative metrics; analogous estimating, which compares a current project to similar past projects; three-point estimating, also known as PERT, which accounts for uncertainty; and bottom-up estimating, which is the most accurate but also most time-consuming as it examines all detailed activities.
The document summarizes a literacy conference hosted by the Coastal Savannah Writing Project (CSWP) at Armstrong Atlantic State University. Over 100 K-16 educators from several counties attended the conference, where the keynote speaker discussed using multimedia projects to engage 21st century learners. CSWP fellows then led workshops on reading and writing strategies. Upcoming CSWP events include literacy workshops on using technology and building strong sentences. CSWP offers summer institutes and professional development for teachers to improve literacy instruction.
O documento descreve a estrutura de diretórios padrão do sistema de arquivos hierárquico (FHS). Ele lista os principais diretórios e sua finalidade, incluindo /bin/ e /sbin/ para comandos, /boot/ para inicialização, /etc/ para configurações, /home/ para usuários, /lib/ para bibliotecas, /var/ para arquivos variáveis e /tmp/ para arquivos temporários.
Applying Technologies Across the End-to-End Pharmacovigilance Process to Incr...MyMeds&Me
MyMeds&Me CEO Andrew Rut and Oracle Health Science's Director of Safety Analytics, Michael Braun-Boghos review the positive impacts of technology on current pharmacovigilance processes.
How to Determine the Root Cause Analysis Techniques in a Management System?PECB
The understanding of these techniques and their effective implementation by the auditee (Process owner) in any Management system audit shall go along way to ensure that the problem does not recur and this improves the customer or stakeholder confidence, ensure safety of personnel and saves the organization money.
Main points covered:
• What is the Root Cause Analysis Technique?
• How to Ensure customers and stakeholder confidence
• Why is important to determine the Root Cause Analysis?
Presenter:
This webinar was presented by Eng. Isaac Mbuvi is an Electrical and communications Engineer. A holder of Master’s Degree in Occupational Safety and Health. He is an Environmental consultant, a certified trainer with PECB for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 Management systems. He is also a certified Lead Auditor in ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.
He has worked in the Oil and Gas industry for the last 14 years and has built his career in the Management systems as an Lead Auditor, Auditor and auditee for more than seven years in various sectors such as Pipeline transport, Health, Construction, Marine, Energy, etc.
Link of the recorded webinar published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DBljEiv9tAw
Journey to Safety Excellence – Tagline or Tangible Resource?browzcompliance
In 2014, the National Safety Council kicked off an initiative called “The Journey to Safety Excellence,” a result of the Council’s understanding that many small to medium sized companies do not have the same safety resources and networking capabilities as larger corporations.
To that end, the Council put together free assessment tools, resource information and a networking structure that smaller companies could utilize at no cost — so they could start down their own path of safety excellence. In this presentation, attendees will learn how businesses of many types can benefit in utilizing the free resources.
This webinar takes the audience through the steps of continuous safety process improvement, and talks through a real-life scenario of how a company could utilize each aspect of the Journey to Safety Excellence resources.
To join or learn more about The Journey to Safety Excellence, visit: http://www.nsc.org/Measure/Pages/journey-to-safety-excellence.aspx.
Mohd Qamaruddin is a software tester with over 10 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He has expertise in testing healthcare applications like Facets and GPS for clients such as UnitedHealth Group. Some of his key responsibilities include writing test cases, performing different types of testing including functionality testing and user acceptance testing, defect reporting, and ensuring compliance with standards like HIPAA. He is proficient with testing tools like QTP and quality management tools like HP Quality Centre.
Contractor Safety Beyond Compliance - Modeling OSHA’s recommended best practi...browzcompliance
This document discusses OSHA's recommended best practices for contractor management based on a safety and health management system approach. It outlines OSHA's 7 core elements for an effective safety program - management leadership, worker participation, hazard identification, hazard prevention and control, training, program evaluation, and communication. The presentation provides an example of how these elements could be used to develop assessment questions to evaluate contractors' safety programs and ensure they meet best practices. Implementing these practices helps protect all workers on a job site.
Presented by:
Bank of America
QuantumConnect
We will examine the three pillars of successfully running learning as a business: standardization, technology, and resourcing.
For Learning to be a legitimate business, it must possess the infrastructure fundamentals that enables all other business units to thrive.
Successful business requires: your ability to produce a consistent and reliable product, the technology that provides you the visibility to lead and results you can measure, and your ability to effectively optimize your resources (internal and outsourced).
To effectively learn a business, you must:
Understand the secrets to successfully aligning your resources, including outsourcing
Understand the workflow technology required to run your organization as a business
Understand the challenges and techniques used to standardize development across an enterprise.
These are possibly the largest barriers to success and are most certainly the most notable areas that are subject to failure.
Tackling the Challanges of Pharma ManufacturingJason Corder
By nature, pharmaceutical manufacturing operations are complex, inefficient, and consequently costly. Due to the inherent complexities, the cost of poor efficiency and its root causes are often not well understood by many manufacturers.
The document discusses the results of a 2014 survey on the use of data-driven approaches in clinical trials. It finds that while many respondents believe their use of such approaches has advanced in recent years, there is still significant room for improvement. Outsourcing relationships were seen as both promoting and potentially inhibiting their use, by increasing access to data and expertise but also sometimes creating challenges for change management and planning. Overall, the survey highlights opportunities to further apply analytical techniques to optimize clinical development processes and outcomes.
Jere Steven Dorough has over 20 years of experience in project management and technical support roles at BJC Healthcare in St. Louis, Missouri. He has managed projects involving clinical and IT systems and supported over 20 applications. Dorough is skilled in requirements assessment, problem management, technical support, and building strong client relationships. He has a background in computer science and business and is passionate about project management and building high-performing teams.
Solution Assessment Method Guide & Template by Expert ToolkitExpert Toolkit
The solution assessment method guide & template is a proven approach for evaluating business improvement solutions and initiatives across a range of essential dimensions.
Dorothy Mitchell is a seasoned business professional with over 15 years of experience in training, operations, and quality analysis in the insurance and banking industries. She has a passion for training and developing others. Mitchell is skilled in driving process improvements, implementing systems to increase efficiencies, and developing documentation. She has competencies in operations, claims processing, training, administration, productivity, process improvement, quality assurance, trend analysis, documentation, leadership, communication, and technology.
The document describes the TCL Test Process Health Check, which is an independent assessment of an organization's test effectiveness and efficiency. It quantifies the real cost of testing, measures the current testing capability, and benchmarks processes against industry standards to identify improvements. The health check gathers data to provide an objective measurement of the current testing function and recommend suitable changes to processes, operations, learning, business benefits, and financial returns. The results report on quality, cost effectiveness, speed, certainty of delivery, risk prevention, and compliance. Benefits include answering questions about testing quality, optimizing test spend, and achieving best-in-class testing.
eCompliance, Chris Ferguson_The Business Value of Safety (ROI)eCompliance
As safety professionals, we can often do a better job of
communicating the business value of safety and viewing
safety as an integrated part of business strategy and
daily operations. More often than not, we disregard the
connection and incorrectly evaluate the ROI of safety.
Join Chris Ferguson and Adrian Bartha as they address
the key areas your business should focus on when
evaluating the value of safety.
This document provides guidance on incorporating technology into a business strategy. It recommends taking an end-to-end approach to understand opportunities, conducting design thinking to solve problems, researching the technology landscape, and considering the healthcare ecosystem and how technology can address patient needs. The implementation plan involves applying a data strategy, using digital data to gain clinical insights, cultivating stakeholder buy-in, and acknowledging an evolving strategy to enable sustainable transformation through an innovation ecosystem.
The document discusses key factors for a successful EHR implementation. It emphasizes that the project should be user-driven, not IT-driven, with users rigorously documenting workflows and processes upfront. Users should control aspects like responsibilities, deadlines and interfaces, while IT focuses on computational logic, data, and infrastructure. Failure is common if EHR is used to automate poor existing processes rather than improve workflows. For the project to succeed, users, IT, and vendors must work together from the beginning with a detailed plan focused on usability and meaningful use for clinical staff.
How to Make Postmarket Surveillance More Cost EffectiveApril Bright
When it comes to postmarket surveillance (PMS), it’s common for the costs to outweigh the value. But, by working with the right team, you’ll be able to execute a study that maximizes return on investment and minimizes the financial impact of conducting further observational research. Postmarket study challenges that must be addressed include enrollment delays, patient attrition, long-term follow-up, resourcing demands and global payor requirements. This session will provide a case study of one orthopaedic company’s seamless transition between postmarket approval and post-approval studies.
Successful EHR Implementation - Strategy & TipsJames Muir
Implementing an EHR is a complex project that requires extensive planning and involvement from all stakeholders. Key steps include defining goals and metrics, analyzing workflows, selecting an appropriate vendor, and providing comprehensive training for end users. A successful implementation follows best practices such as establishing executive support, implementing in increments, thoroughly testing the system, and providing ongoing support and feedback after going live. Shadowing providers during training and post go-live periods is critical to ensure adoption and maximize benefits of the new EHR system.
The document discusses strategic consulting services from PEPR Consulting to help life science companies increase productivity and efficiency in their lab operations through a seven-step program. This includes an analysis of current processes and systems, a Multi Moment Analysis to identify inefficient tasks, development of optimized future processes and systems requirements, creation of a business case, and support in selecting and deploying new lab informatics solutions. The consulting aims to realize improvements of up to 30% for clients.
What Is It? Product Development vs. Product Management April Bright
This session will focus on the respective roles and responsibilities of the Product Manager vs. the Development Engineer from a product’s inception through its lifecycle maintenance. Attendees will learn how to leverage the cross-functional product team to deliver results, business vs. technical aspects of product development, putting the customer first and navigating the organization in order to get things done.
This document discusses several techniques for project estimation: expert judgment, which relies on subject matter experts; parametric estimating, which uses quantitative metrics; analogous estimating, which compares a current project to similar past projects; three-point estimating, also known as PERT, which accounts for uncertainty; and bottom-up estimating, which is the most accurate but also most time-consuming as it examines all detailed activities.
The document summarizes a literacy conference hosted by the Coastal Savannah Writing Project (CSWP) at Armstrong Atlantic State University. Over 100 K-16 educators from several counties attended the conference, where the keynote speaker discussed using multimedia projects to engage 21st century learners. CSWP fellows then led workshops on reading and writing strategies. Upcoming CSWP events include literacy workshops on using technology and building strong sentences. CSWP offers summer institutes and professional development for teachers to improve literacy instruction.
O documento descreve a estrutura de diretórios padrão do sistema de arquivos hierárquico (FHS). Ele lista os principais diretórios e sua finalidade, incluindo /bin/ e /sbin/ para comandos, /boot/ para inicialização, /etc/ para configurações, /home/ para usuários, /lib/ para bibliotecas, /var/ para arquivos variáveis e /tmp/ para arquivos temporários.
Dr. Persephone Doupi gave a presentation on how health technology assessment (HTA) and information and communication technologies (ICTs) can interface. She discussed several proposed approaches and frameworks for evaluating eHealth technologies and ensuring high quality studies, including STARE-HI, GEP-HI, ISO 13131, and MAST. She also presented on the PARENT project, a joint action to develop cross-border patient registries across Europe. In concluding, she argued that the era of data-driven eHealth offers opportunities for synergies between HTA and health informatics through access to high quality data.
O documento discute características de documentos convencionais e não convencionais. Apresenta definições de documento, tipos de documentos e suas características. O objetivo da aula é aprofundar conhecimentos sobre documentos, reconhecê-los e identificar suas características.
Aula 3: Introdução a sistema de arquivoscamila_seixas
O documento discute conceitos de arquivos e sistemas de arquivos. Apresenta que arquivos são coleções de informações armazenadas em memória secundária e identificadas por nomes. Sistemas de arquivos gerenciam e organizam os arquivos em estruturas de diretórios hierárquicas. Diretórios armazenam atributos dos arquivos e permitem acesso a eles por caminhos únicos.
O documento discute os principais conceitos e implementações de sistemas de arquivos. Aborda tópicos como arquivos, diretórios, métodos de acesso, gerenciamento de espaço em disco e alocação de espaço. Explica como os sistemas de arquivos organizam e fornecem acesso aos dados armazenados de forma permanente nos dispositivos de armazenamento.
O documento descreve conceitos sobre arquivos e como manipulá-los em algoritmos. Explica que arquivos são conjuntos de registros onde cada registro não ocupa uma posição fixa e define comandos como abrir, fechar, copiar, armazenar e eliminar registros de um arquivo.
O documento discute diferentes aspectos dos sistemas de arquivos, incluindo: 1) arquivos e seus atributos; 2) métodos para alocar espaço em disco, como alocação contígua e lista ligada; 3) estruturas de dados para gerenciar espaço livre, como mapa de bits, lista ligada e tabela.
This document discusses hospital planning services provided by Taurus Glocal. It offers services for facility planning, technology planning, people planning, operations planning, and more. The company takes a holistic approach to hospital planning, considering factors like facility design, equipment selection, staffing, and clinical workflows. It aims to design efficient hospitals and implement best practices to improve quality of care.
The document discusses IT management best practices across multiple phases and areas, including:
- Phase I focuses on defining the IT strategy and identifying how IT can enable, enhance, or inhibit business strategies.
- Phase II involves developing an IT plan to define strategic initiatives, applications, infrastructure, partnerships, and staffing needed to achieve the strategy.
- Phase III is focused on ensuring IT quality through programs for total quality management, standards, and continuous improvement.
Reducing Inefficency on the Obstetric ServiceRobert Knuppel
This document discusses the need to reduce inefficiencies in obstetric services through implementing process improvement methodologies from business, such as Lean Six Sigma. It notes that obstetrics deals with complex issues and rising costs/risks. Business process improvement approaches can help leadership initiate continuous improvements to patient experience and safety. Some key steps outlined include engaging management, improving communication, conducting structured brainstorming to identify waste/inefficiencies, creating visual maps of current processes, and ensuring reliable data collection to guide improvements. The goal is to standardize processes, reduce variation and waste, and ultimately enhance quality of care while lowering costs.
The document discusses various methods for collecting and analyzing data to inform quality improvement projects. It describes process mapping to analyze current processes, brainstorming to generate ideas, surveys to understand stakeholder perspectives, audits to measure performance against standards, and cause and effect diagrams to identify root causes of problems. The goal of using these techniques is to thoroughly diagnose issues to identify opportunities for improving processes and outcomes.
Optimal Tech for Healthcare: A Provider's Guide to Navigating the Digital Rev...basilmph
The healthcare landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation, driven by the ever-evolving world of technology. From streamlining administrative tasks with electronic health records (EHRs) to expanding patient access through telehealth platforms, technology is reshaping how healthcare is delivered and experienced.
ISO 9001:2008 is a quality management system standard, first published in 1987 by ISO (International Organization for Standardization). This standard is designed to help organizations ensure that they meet all requirements of customers and stakeholders.
Here we analyze a case and answering some following questions about mission critical and safety critical system, importance of certification, business strategy etc.
Here is the case:
The Johns Hopkins Cancer Center, nationally recognized as one of the leading cancer centers in the United States, is a major InterSystems customer.
The hospital implemented an advanced, multifunctional oncology clinical information system based on Caché.
1) IT planning is an essential management competency for organizations to ensure their technology capabilities are well-positioned to support operations. The IT life cycle includes elements like planning, selection, implementation, support and eventual retirement of systems.
2) Effective IT planning follows a structured process and considers the organization's strategy, generates ideas for initiatives, prioritizes projects, and ensures necessary infrastructure. Planning horizons vary but are often 3-5 years with annual refreshers.
3) When implementing an electronic health record (EHR), a multi-year plan is necessary since components build upon each other incrementally to enhance clinical capabilities over time, as reflected in models like HIMSS Analytics' EMR Adoption Model
Strategic Application of IT for Performance Improvement in hospital industry_...DrDevTaneja1
Hospital industry has been laggard in using IT tools to improve Performance Management.
The hospital industry must move beyond Transaction Reporting HMIS to Performance Improvement Tools like Visual Analysis Business Intelligence
Hospital industry must use IT spending as a Strategic Resource to optimize business outcomes & productivity
The document outlines objectives and tasks for information technology (IT) planning, management, operations, development, and security within an organization. The objectives are to establish tools to align IT with strategic goals, improve services, accountability, and security. Management tasks involve creating listener profiles to drive targeted content. IT operations will collect listener data to create data sources and transfer to a data warehouse for analysis. The purpose is to use business analytics to support operational decision-making and achieve business targets.
The document provides an overview of Edgewater Technology, a strategic technology management consulting firm focused on the healthcare industry. It describes Edgewater's background, services, industry experience, and case studies working with healthcare organizations to implement enterprise data strategies, data warehouses, business intelligence solutions, and other technologies. Key goals for healthcare clients included improving patient outcomes, increasing efficiency and compliance through data-driven insights.
This document outlines a proposed engagement framework between Taurus Global and a client to develop an IT strategy and roadmap for the client's healthcare organization. It involves a multi-phase approach including:
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2) Developing a customized application portfolio and high-level IT roadmap aligned to the business goals.
3) Providing recommendations for an IT governance model, sourcing strategies, and setting up a PMO to oversee execution.
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This presentation discusses best practices for implementing ERP systems. It defines ERP systems and their key characteristics like integration and use of industry best practices. The presentation outlines the implementation process including defining requirements, designing the system, building it, transitioning to the new system, and supporting it in production. It emphasizes that implementation requires the right mix of people, processes, and technology and stresses adopting organizational best practices for continuous improvement.
Keeping up with tech trends can be difficult, especially when it comes to healthcare — an industry that’s fast-evolving, notoriously complex, and shouldering an ever higher demand — but it is crucial.
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Final Project Implementation Assessment of Electronic Health .docxtjane3
Final Project:
Implementation Assessment of Electronic Health Record.
Objective
:
For this assignment, you will create the assessment to implement the new HER in a Health care setting. The assessment phase is foundational to all other EHR implementation steps, and involves determining if the practice is ready to make the change from paper records to electronic (EHRs), or to upgrade their current system to a new certified version. You will be encourage to choose a Community Health Center or a Doctor’s Office. The Assessment is designed because our world has been radically transformed by digital technology – smart phones, tablets, and web-enabled devices have transformed our daily lives and the way we communicate. Medicine is an information-rich enterprise. A greater and more seamless flow of information within a digital health care infrastructure, created by electronic health records (EHRs), encompasses and leverages digital progress and can transform the way care is delivered and compensated. With EHRs, information is available whenever and wherever it is needed.
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, a component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, represents the Nation’s first substantial commitment of Federal resources to support the widespread adoption of EHRs. As of August 2012, 54 percent of the Medicare- and Medicaid-eligible professionals had registered for the
meaningful use incentive program
.
The paper will be 8 pages long. More information and due date will provide in the assignments link.
ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES (2 points /10%):
The
assessment
should look at the current state of the practice:
Are administrative processes organized, efficient, and well documented?
Are clinical workflows efficient, clearly mapped out, and understood by all staff?
Are data collection and reporting processes well established and documented?
Are staff members computer literate and comfortable with information technology?
Does the practice have access to
high-speed internet connectivity
?
Does the practice have access to the financial capital required to purchase new or additional hardware?
Are there clinical priorities or needs that should be addressed?
Does the practice have specialty specific requirements?
Through the Regional Extension Centers (RECs), we’ve learned that these questions and assessment tools provide a good understanding of the current state of the practice and can help identify key goals for improvement. Often, these goals relate to patient quality, patient satisfaction, practice productivity and efficiency, improved quality of work environment, and most important to the overall goal – improved health care.
EACH PAPER SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
1.
Introduction (5 points / 25%)
Offer an abstract that provide a brief outlook of the proposal and explaining in your own words what is meant by a Electronic H.
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2. Some (obvious) truths!
IT vendors and Systems Integrators want to make a profit
Therefore want to have a stable and predictable solution that
can be priced competitively and which meets customer
requirements
Customers want to minimise risk and achieve a “Return on
Investment” - ROI
Evidence that something works helps both to sell the
“product” and also to reduce the price charged (by removing
uplift to cover risk)
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People/Process/Technology
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5. IT Supplier Success factors suitable
for HTA evaluation?
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be measured:
The equipment works as designed!
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The training materials are clear and easily followed
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Equipment maintenance, cleaning and calibration
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be factored into HTA evaluations
6. Programme Success factors
suitable for HTA evaluation?
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clinicians and followed appropriately?
Is appropriate equipment selected, deployed and tested in
the patient’s home?
Do patients demonstrate an understanding of why they have
been selected, what they have to do with the equipment and
how to seek help if problems arise?
Is the percentage of successful data acquisitions acceptable
and is the data processed in a sufficiently timely manner?
Do clinicians receive relevant and timely alerts or do they
express frustration with the quality of the service?
7. Summary
Information technology vendors and implementers are very
keen to be “evidence based”
Health Organisations need sound replicable data to
underpin the business case for IT investment
Therefore HTA practitioners should be “pushing at an open
door”!
Clinical IT system implementations almost always involve
change management, process redesign and more project
management and training than is budgeted for!
Sir John Harvey-Jones famously said of planning something
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the liberty of substituting the word “evaluating” for his word
“planning” ..............
8. “Evaluating is an unnatural process; it
is much more fun to do something.
The nicest thing about not evaluating
is that failure comes as a complete
surprise, rather than being preceded
by a period of worry and depression.”