Meditech is a healthcare IT company that provides an integrated software system for healthcare organizations. Their system handles various functions like patient management, clinical documentation, financial management, and more. It allows for things like computerized physician order entry, management of clinical and financial data, budgeting and cost analysis. The system aims to facilitate information sharing across different departments and providers. It collects data in a centralized data repository for reporting and decision making. Meditech competes with other large healthcare IT vendors and their system is used widely, though full integration across the healthcare system has yet to be achieved.
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Health Care Data Sets and their purpose
UHDDS, UACDS, MDS, OASIS, DEEDS and EMDS.
Explain the standardization data collection efforts.
Explain the five type of standards that need to be in place to implement the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
Standard Development Organizations
Evolving and Emerging Health Information Standards
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In this webinar, we will look at pressures exerted in 2023 on the margin and explore how cost management and complete charge capture can protect and enhance the margin. We will provide details on patient activity costing versus the cost-to-charge ratio (CCR), looking at common themes for lost charges and providing an example of where patient activity cost management was able to provide insight into cost containment and practice patterns of a system provider.
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Presented at “Financial Protection and Improved Access to Health Care: Peer-to-Peer Learning Workshop Finding Solutions to Common Challenges” in Accra, Ghana, February 2016. To learn more, visit: https://www.hfgproject.org/ghana-uhc-workshop
Health Care Data Sets and their purpose
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Explain the standardization data collection efforts.
Explain the five type of standards that need to be in place to implement the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
Standard Development Organizations
Evolving and Emerging Health Information Standards
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mHealth – also known as mobile health - refers to the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablets, personal digital assistants and the wireless infrastructure.
Within digital health, mHealth encompasses all applications of telecommunications and multimedia technologies for the delivery of healthcare and health information.
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Driven partly by regulatory pressure, stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem—including payers and patients—now want real-world evidence (RWE) about wellness to supplement and expand randomized control trial (RCT) input from pharmas about pharmaceuticals' efficacy and effectiveness.
2023 Healthcare Trends: What Leaders Need to Know about the Latest Emerging M...Health Catalyst
The convergence of several significant emerging market and policy trends, namely high inflation, record-low unemployment, a divided Congress, and the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, has created a unique set of challenges for healthcare organizations. To discuss these trends and their impact on key healthcare issues, such as patient engagement, the migration to value-based care, analytics adoption, the use of alternative care sites, and patient privacy, Health Catalyst's General Counsel, Dan Orenstein, and Vice President of Market Insights, Tim Zenger, will be hosting a discussion. This convergence of trends poses significant challenges for healthcare organizations, and it is important for them to be prepared to address these challenges effectively.
> Why HEOR?
> Costs, Consequences and Perspectives
> Key Stakeholders in HEOR
> What is Health Economics and Pharmaco-economic Research?
> Economic Evaluations
> Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratio (ICER)
> Concept of HRQoL
> Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)
> Pragmatic Clinical Trials
> Observational Studies
> Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
> Application of CER
> Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
> Real World Evidence (RWE)
> Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs)
> Patient Focused Drug Development (PFDD)
> Application of Health Economic Evaluations
> Challenges and Barriers
Bangladesh Directorate General of Family Planning implements the DHIS2 in collaboration with USAID eMIS partners (MEASURE Evaluation, MNCSP, icddrb) and UNFPA.
mHealth – also known as mobile health - refers to the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablets, personal digital assistants and the wireless infrastructure.
Within digital health, mHealth encompasses all applications of telecommunications and multimedia technologies for the delivery of healthcare and health information.
Introduction to research data managementMichael Day
Slides from a presentation given at the JIBS User Group / RLUK joint event "Demystifying research data: don't be scared, be prepared" held at the SOAS Brunei Gallery, London, 17 July 2012.
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The convergence of several significant emerging market and policy trends, namely high inflation, record-low unemployment, a divided Congress, and the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, has created a unique set of challenges for healthcare organizations. To discuss these trends and their impact on key healthcare issues, such as patient engagement, the migration to value-based care, analytics adoption, the use of alternative care sites, and patient privacy, Health Catalyst's General Counsel, Dan Orenstein, and Vice President of Market Insights, Tim Zenger, will be hosting a discussion. This convergence of trends poses significant challenges for healthcare organizations, and it is important for them to be prepared to address these challenges effectively.
> Why HEOR?
> Costs, Consequences and Perspectives
> Key Stakeholders in HEOR
> What is Health Economics and Pharmaco-economic Research?
> Economic Evaluations
> Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratio (ICER)
> Concept of HRQoL
> Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)
> Pragmatic Clinical Trials
> Observational Studies
> Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
> Application of CER
> Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
> Real World Evidence (RWE)
> Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs)
> Patient Focused Drug Development (PFDD)
> Application of Health Economic Evaluations
> Challenges and Barriers
Bangladesh Directorate General of Family Planning implements the DHIS2 in collaboration with USAID eMIS partners (MEASURE Evaluation, MNCSP, icddrb) and UNFPA.
http://www.servicewing.com/
Service Wing Healthcare, Inc. develops and markets a unique suite of software that deliver comprehensive monitoring of Body Area Network (BAN), smart and or Wi-Fi enabled devices.
Scenario:
Midwest Regional Health is one of Wisconsin's largest and most sophisticated hospitals, is Implementing a new EHR system that will better their services to their internal and external customers. They are asking ITMC (I-Tech Medical Consortium) to help them navigate through this long term project, thereby improving their commitment to their surrounding community.
ACCENT\'s Hospital Management System provides an integrated solution that complements your hospital information management system and helps you manage and prioritize support services requests including transportation and environmental services.
By delivering full visibility and synchronization of patient rooms, tasks, equipment, and services for ideal patient throughput and hospital management, ACCENT provides the necessary workflow tools to maximize patient satisfaction, while at the same time improving hospital profitability.
ACCENT\'s Hospital Management System can significantly improve your capacity through our fully integrated hospital information management system. Here\'s how:
• ACCENT streamlines patient care processes by coordinating crucial events from admission to discharge. It gives everyone from leaders to frontline staff real-time data and task coordination tools that work with your hospital management software to increase hospital capacity.
• ACCENT prioritizes EVS, transportation, engineering, and translation service queues, alerting hospital service departments to patient care support tasks - when and where they are needed.
• Requests can be made on a routine to stat basis, so that services are available to patients at the priority level they require.
• Hospital performance dashboards reflect real-time electronic data collection from hospital information management systems.
• Synchronization of housekeeping, transportation, and engineering room requests by bed management are available for centralized bed turn coordination.
ACCENT’s Hospital Management System is a complete package one needs for a hospital to deal with all the day to day operations taking place. The program can look after Inpatients, OPD patients, records, database treatments, status illness, and billings. It also maintains their in hospital info such as ward ID, Doctor in Charge, and Department administering.
Connected Healthcare - New PerspectiveSomenath Nag
An IDC source says, the healthcare industry is one of the highest-ranked industries for year-over-year growth and five-year compound annual growth rates with a worldwide average of 7.0% growth for FY12 in software.
There has been a significant investment in the form of health modernization and stimulus funding to leverage technology to cut down rising healthcare costs.
This presentation discusses the concepts of connected healthcare and how it will change the Healthcare Industry.
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STATEMENT OF NEED
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Title: Sense of Smell
Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
MBBS (Best Graduate, AIMC Lahore)
FCPS Physiology
ICMT, CHPE, DHPE (STMU)
MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the primary categories of smells and the concept of odor blindness.
Explain the structure and location of the olfactory membrane and mucosa, including the types and roles of cells involved in olfaction.
Describe the pathway and mechanisms of olfactory signal transmission from the olfactory receptors to the brain.
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Identify different types of olfactory disorders such as anosmia, hyposmia, hyperosmia, and dysosmia, including their potential causes.
Key Topics:
Olfactory Genes:
3% of the human genome accounts for olfactory genes.
400 genes for odorant receptors.
Olfactory Membrane:
Located in the superior part of the nasal cavity.
Medially: Folds downward along the superior septum.
Laterally: Folds over the superior turbinate and upper surface of the middle turbinate.
Total surface area: 5-10 square centimeters.
Olfactory Mucosa:
Olfactory Cells: Bipolar nerve cells derived from the CNS (100 million), with 4-25 olfactory cilia per cell.
Sustentacular Cells: Produce mucus and maintain ionic and molecular environment.
Basal Cells: Replace worn-out olfactory cells with an average lifespan of 1-2 months.
Bowman’s Gland: Secretes mucus.
Stimulation of Olfactory Cells:
Odorant dissolves in mucus and attaches to receptors on olfactory cilia.
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Quality of a Good Odorant:
Small (3-20 Carbon atoms), volatile, water-soluble, and lipid-soluble.
Facilitated by odorant-binding proteins in mucus.
Membrane Potential and Action Potential:
Resting membrane potential: -55mV.
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Adaptation Towards the Sense of Smell:
Rapid adaptation within the first second, with further slow adaptation.
Psychological adaptation greater than receptor adaptation, involving feedback inhibition from the central nervous system.
Primary Sensations of Smell:
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Odor Detection Threshold:
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Characteristics of Smell:
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Behavioral and emotional influences of smell.
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Introduction
Many have been interested in Tom Selleck health. not only because of his enduring presence on screen but also because of the challenges. and lifestyle choices he has faced and made over the years. This article delves into the various aspects of Tom Selleck health. exploring his fitness regimen, diet, mental health. and the challenges he has encountered as he ages. We'll look at how he maintains his well-being. the health issues he has faced, and his approach to ageing .
Early Life and Career
Childhood and Athletic Beginnings
Tom Selleck was born on January 29, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. From an early age, he was involved in sports, particularly basketball. which played a significant role in his physical development. His athletic pursuits continued into college. where he attended the University of Southern California (USC) on a basketball scholarship. This early involvement in sports laid a strong foundation for his physical health and disciplined lifestyle.
Transition to Acting
Selleck's transition from an athlete to an actor came with its physical demands. His first significant role in "Magnum P.I." required him to perform various stunts and maintain a fit appearance. This role, which he played from 1980 to 1988. necessitated a rigorous fitness routine to meet the show's demands. setting the stage for his long-term commitment to health and wellness.
Fitness Regimen
Workout Routine
Tom Selleck health and fitness regimen has evolved. adapting to his changing roles and age. During his "Magnum, P.I." days. Selleck's workouts were intense and focused on building and maintaining muscle mass. His routine included weightlifting, cardiovascular exercises. and specific training for the stunts he performed on the show.
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Meditech - Healthcare Information System - Sunil Nair Health Informatics Dalhousie University
1. MEDITECH – HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEM
SUNIL NAIR, B00492855
October 23, 2007
Healthcare organizations are a conglomerate of heterogeneous groups of professionals
and consumers with diverse objectives and information requirements.
The purpose of a healthcare information system (HCIS) is to manage the information that
health professionals need to perform their jobs effectively and efficiently.
HCIS:
• Facilitate communication
• Integrate information
• Coordinate action among multiple users
• Organization and storage of information
• Support financial and administrative functions
Major functions:
• Patient Management
• Departmental Management
• Care Delivery and Clinical Documentation
• Clinical Decision Support
• Financial and resource management and
• Managed Care Support
MEDITECH 1
Medical Information Technology or MEDITECH is a software vendor in the health care
informatics industry providing integrated software solutions to healthcare organizations.
Founded in 1969, MEDITECH’s hospital information system has evolved with the
changing trends and demands of the healthcare industry to integrate all components of the
Integrated Healthcare Delivery Network 2 from primary acute care to long term care
facilities.
The system includes modules for managing patient information, patient care, clinical
information management and financial and reimbursement management. A major step
towards achieving integration was to make the system compatible with both platforms: a
client/server-based Microsoft Windows setup, or the company's proprietary MAGIC
operating system. In order to provide a multifaceted interoperable Health Information
system to the heath organizations, the company works with other hardware and software
vendors like IBM, Dell, Patient Care Technologies Inc., and LSS Data Systems. 3
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2. MEDITECH product suite:
Source: http://www.meditech.com/PublicRelations/pages/product.htm
Features and Benefits 4
• Management of billing, payroll, decision support, materials management, and
staffing and scheduling.
• Clinical Management of health information in areas such as patient registration,
radiology, ambulatory, pharmacy, laboratory, emergency, operating room,
medical records, and physician practice management.
• Information Technology management in relation to patient and staff Internet
access, as well as data archiving and integrated communications.
• Integrated Serverless Backup (ISB) 5 The main advantage of ISB is the utilization
of Storage Area Network (SAN). This works by creating a “snapshot” point in
time images of an entire session. This saved snapshot can then be retrieved and
brought “live” without the uncertainty of a database analysis/rebuild step.
• Integrated Disaster Recovery (IDR) creates and splits off point-in-time data
images with block-level replication of the data to local or remote “standby”
volumes; these can be brought live without further recovery steps.
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3. Budgeting and Forecasting
This is a useful financial management resource for managers and policy makers.
The feature facilitates access to current and past financial performances and financial data
that could help in a cost/performance evaluation and influence prediction and planning
for the future. Budget fields are standard for all departments therefore the results are
more uniform enabling accurate analysis. The application utilizes information found
throughout the entire Health Care Information System to create detailed reports on
• Revenue Projections
• Managed Care (Third-Party) Contract Analysis and Negotiation
• Service Volume Projections
• Reimbursement Projections.
Cost Accounting
The application utilizes information found throughout the entire Health Care
Information System to create detailed reports on comparisons of actual and standard
costs, fixed and variable costs, budgets, variance analyses, service profitability, and
departmental responsibility. The Cost Accounting application facilitates budget
preparation and cost and profitability analysis as it enables an organization to:
• Analyze and report standard costs, by procedure, at the departmental and cost
group level
• Compare the cost of providing services to the reimbursement received for each
patient and groups of patients
• Develop budgets by product line via expected number of cases and by service unit
for expected volume and standard costs.
Complete Integration with the Entire System
The application is fully integrated with other MEDITECH applications to streamline
the flow of information, prevent redundant data entry and duplication of effort, and
generate reports that contain the most up-to-date, comprehensive information.
Information includes:
• Historical data for standard cost development
• Service units as they relate to billing and nursing procedures
• Revenue and profitability statistics
• Spending, volume, and labor variance
• Procedure usage
• Billing procedures
• Productive labor hours and dollars.
Profitability Reports
When combined with the Case Mix Management application, Cost Accounting
provides users with the features and functionality to generate multiple profitability
reports based on various selection criteria. Features include:
• A detailed Patient Service Unit Report indicates the total standard cost of
providing services to a patient and compares this cost to reimbursement activity
cost per day; this information is also available through the Patient Cost Per Day
Report
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4. • Patient Cost Analysis reports provide a comparison of cost, charge, and
reimbursement data (in detailed or summarized format) for a group of patients
selected
Departmental Reporting
The system creates departmental reports, which illustrate standard costs and service usage
by department. These reports allow for budget comparison and variance analysis by
managers throughout the organization.
Departmental Budgeting
The application provides managers with volume and cost data in order to help prepare
budgets.
• Using past data, the system develops profile service unit usage by user-defined
product line(s)
• By entering expected product line or service unit volumes for an upcoming year,
managers can obtain expected volumes of service units and expected standard
costs by department and cost group
• Budgeting is possible by product line(s) and by service units based on actual
volumes for previous periods.
Data Repository
MEDITECH's Data Repository provides health care organizations an open
environment for powerful reporting and decision-support tools.
• Allows organizations to report on clinical, administrative, and financial data
• Provides fast, easy generation of reports
• Supports off-the-shelf tools for analysis and presentation of targeted data
• Data collected can be integrated with information from other vendors' systems,
• Enhances efficiency of transactional system
• Provides fast, easy generation of reports
• Allows for graphical display of data
Accepts Data from Other Vendors and Industries
Other vendor and industry data can be incorporated into the MEDITECH system in
several ways. An organization may employ one or maybe all of the below options:
• Standard interface protocols. Validation and referential integrity checks occur
when the data is filed in the application, as with any interfaced data, thus ensuring
imported information conforms to the care organization's standards and
established nomenclature.
• By filing the data directly to the Microsoft SQL server
• Customer-defined screens to capture and report on data from other organizations
• Enhances Efficiency of Transactional System: multiple users can report on
information in the Data Repository without impacting the speed of their live
environment.
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5. Access to Health Care Data for Reporting and Decision Support
The Data Repository contains data from the clinical, administrative, and financial
applications down to detail level. The Data Repository allows care organizations to:
• Simplify report development through the utilization of standard column naming
conventions
• Study data to conduct business and research analyzes
• Quickly analyze the broad scope of information and draw conclusions about
patient treatment strategies, strategic planning, and outcomes reporting
• Identify cost efficiency levels on an overall organizational basis, and on a
provider-by-provider basis.
Security
Access to the data within the Data Repository is completely controlled by the security
features inherent in Windows NT and the SQL server. This security is very flexible and
can restrict user access to specified tables and/or columns in a table. Row level security
can also be realized by the use of Views.
Comparison
There is a multitude of Healthcare Information systems in the market today. The
evaluation and selection criteria of a HCIS depend on the type of organization and its
requirements. The end users, Managers, Healthcare professionals and consumers look for
companies that are
• Cost effective
• Training and learning curve
• Implementation time
• Technical support
• Graphic user Interface – User friendliness
Some of the current major players in the HCIS market are 3M, Cerner, Eclipsys, IDX,
Meditech, Mckesson, Quadra-med, and Siemens to name a few.
A comparison of the products by various vendors should include the type of Information
System, overall product features, perceptions of the end users and the type of clients its
serving.
In this paper, Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) offered by three major
vendors is evaluated.
“Computerized physician order entry (CPOE), is a process of electronic entry of
physician instructions for the treatment of patients (particularly hospitalized patients)
under his or her care. These orders are communicated over a computer network to the
medical staff (nurses, therapists or other physicians) or to the departments (pharmacy,
laboratory or radiology) responsible for fulfilling the order. CPOE decreases delay in
order completion, reduces errors related to handwriting or transcription, allows order
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6. entry at point-of-care or off-site, provides error-checking for duplicate or incorrect doses
or tests, and simplifies inventory and posting of charges.” 6
The following comparison report by KLAS 7 shows the market share holders in the year
2002.
The following chart shows the overall vendor ratings in features and benefits.
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7. Physician satisfaction with Inpatient CPOE system
Source: The HIT report from KLAS -2004
As the above examples show perceptions vary according to technology acceptance of
different groups of users and also the assimilation of newer more sophisticated IT tools
by vendors in updating their current system. Currently there is not yet a fully integrated,
inter-operable HCIS product available in the market.
The healthcare sector being a multifaceted ever changing environment with its distinct
requirements, there is a need for a fully functional, highly integrated, interoperable HCIS
for a sustainable health system of the future.
Reference:
1
http://dgplades.salud.gob.mx/2006/htdocs/daiss/Meditech_caracteristicas.pdf
2
http://healthadmin.jbpub.com/mhc/readings/chapter%2001/hcm%2018-4.p41-47.pdf
3
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Medical-Information-Technology-Inc-Company-
History.html
4
http://www.answers.com/topic/medical-information-technology-inc?cat=biz-fin
5
ttp://www.bridgeheadsoftware.com/downloads/Press/PR07_ISBIDRforClientServer.pdf
6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_physician_order_entry
7
www.healthcomputing.com KLAS
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