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Running head: ANALYSIS PAPER 1
ANALYSIS PAPER 2
Analysis Paper
Krista Kim
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Author Note
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Analysis Paper
Based on the results of the SWOT analysis, what should Barbara recommend as an overall strategy?
From the SWOT analysis, the overall strategy that Barbara should recommend is a system that is capable of meeting the needs of the healthcare facility effectively and efficiently. The strategy focuses on having systems that are fast to allow for easy processing of information and offer quality support to the patients. It should also have a high level of functionality to allow for the normalizing, analyzing, access and the storage of the entire patient's data and saving it for easy retrieving in the future. The system should also be user-friendly so that the professionals and the staff using it can be in a position to easily maneuver in the process of care delivery. The other component of the system that the company should consider is that it should have a wide range of features to enhance maximum utilization and the ease of data access by the patients and physicians. Finally, the medical professionals should also be trained on how to use the system upon implementation.
How will the selection of the chosen EHR system contribute to the strategy? Further explain why it was the best choice.
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On what basis should she develop actions items? What should the action items be, as they directly relate to the strategy?
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Discussion 3Select a topic for your Topic 3 Executive Summary as.docxduketjoy27252
Discussion 3
Select a topic for your Topic 3 Executive Summary assignment. Post your idea and basic thoughts about the topic using the assignment details from Topic 3. You should provide thoughts to your peers about their topics and ideas that may assist them in completing their projects.
In this assignment, you will propose a quality improvement initiative from your place of employment that could easily be implemented if approved. Assume you are presenting this program to the board for approval of funding. Write an executive summary (750-1,000 words) to present to the board, from which the board will make its decision to fund your program or project. Include the following:
The purpose of the quality improvement initiative.
The target population or audience.
The benefits of the quality improvement initiative.
The interprofessional collaboration that would be required to implement the quality improvement initiative.
The cost or budget justification.
The basis upon which the quality improvement initiative will be evaluated.
Reply 1
Weiner
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Re: Topic 2 DQ 3
For my executive summary assignment my idea for quality improvement in my workplace is the reduction of falls. I work in a skilled nursing facility and we have a lot of dementia patients as well as rehab patients. Basically, I think there are ways in which to decrease the number of falls that my facility could implement that wouldn’t be too difficult to accomplish. One would be to assign the fall risk patients rooms closer to the nurses’ station because we have a few right now that I think are too far and on more than one occasion, I have found certain patients halfway out of the bed. I know reducing falls is a very common project, but I do think it’s vitally important to do so.
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Nkamse
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Re: Topic 2 DQ 3
The central electronic systems in hospitals are the electronic health record systems. These systems are clear evidence of the significance of information technology that continues to revolutionize various industries. These systems have great importance in enhancing healthcare services provided to the patients. Many healthcare organizations and facilities have shifted their focus to its use to improve their service delivery. These systems function as the key repository of all patients' files (Liberati et al., 2017). Nurses also utilize the appointment scheduling software to track and schedule shifts among them. The medical equipment management software helps doctors to monitor their patients who are in the ICU.
Healthcare has experienced some improvements in service delivery through these electronic systems, such as limiting medication errors and ensuring advanced health management. The continued adoption of electronics in the hospitals leads to increased delivery of quality care to patients and improvements in health and healthcare administration (Prezerakos, 2018). The most common electronic systems in hospitals include electronic health record (EHR.
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Two GCU library scholarly databases that will help me find the best research articles for my proposal are two databases that I appreciate, and currently use often: CINAHL Complete and PubMed. I like CINAHL Complete because it is quite specific to nursing. It also provides many full text articles free of charge, which is unfortunately not that common. Some databases provide only abstracts, and some require one to purchase the article (which can be 50 dollars!). I like PubMed because it has a wide array of health science articles that are peer-reviewed, but often have language that is easier to understand. PubMed is also quite user friendly.
These two databases are better than Google Scholar and/or a general internet search, for several reasons. While Google Scholar provides scholarly articles, it can sometimes be difficult to limit the search. Inexperienced users an easily become overwhelmed with the amount of data the search returns. A general internet search is not only daunting in terms of qualified research, but can be dangerous as well: Wikipedia sources, the evil of internet research, are often returned with general internet searches. Anyone can post on Wikipedia (and the internet in general). Scholarly databases are the safe way to go: safe for the researcher, and safe for the patients under the researcher’s
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Strategies That Facilitate Influencing Power
AcelRx Pharmaceuticals Inc Company
STRATEGIES THAT FACILITATE INFLUENCING POWER
Acel Rx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has always provided quality service to its clients but the adoption of an online drugstore is a project that could make the services even better. However, various measures have to be put into place to facilitate the success of the project.
Strategies to Adapt Organizational Change
To adopt the online marketing and networking with customers then the Acel Rx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has to undergo some organizational change. Though the internet is the Internet could enable profound changes in the nature and structure of the healthcare industry and, ultimately, the delivery of healthcare services its adaptions should be strategic. First, there is need to carry out the change in phases with the start-up phase being clarifying the expectations and roles, assessing readiness, contracts and getting buy-in. In this phase is usually where the relationship between you (the initial change agent) and your client starts, whether you are an external or internal consultant. This means that Acel has to establish who its clients actually are, define the project conduct field research on the opinions of the customers after which they have to make the customers feel the problem at hand and the need to adopt this new technology which is aimed at making things better. It is important that the change agent should have good communication skills both verbal and non-verbal and a good listener.
Second in line is a jo.
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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. Organizational complexity
Organizations and systems become complex over
time
3 types of complexity are endemic in healthcare or
human services organizations
1. Structural complexity
2. Mission creep
3. Processes complexity
Complexity is costly
3.
4.
5.
6. Current approaches to tackling Cost
and Quality issues
Restructuring
System or process improvement
Reducing or limiting service offerings
We believe that Mobile devices and applications provide a
new approach to performance improvement
7. How can mobile apps help a human
services organization?
Mobile devices have become cognitive prosthesis
Mobile connect knowledge workers
Businesses can use this additional capability to embed continuous improvement in
the system and power innovation
How?
1.
Data collection at point of service is seamless and can be rapidly
reconfigured to accommodate changes in the environment
2.
Employee can access data, information and metrics that help make
informed decisions while performing tasks or making judgments
3.
Employees can be connected to each other to enable knowledge sharing
as well as easier group decision making
8. Common hurdles to improvement
Other than cultural impediments, the 2 tactical hurdles to
change are
1. Difficulty in quickly deploying and field testing
redesigned processes
2. Rigid information structures that prevent iterative
improvement
Mobile devices can be used to overcome these hurdles as well
as promote a new type of culture where performance is
transparent and information/knowledge sharing is the norm
9. How do Apps help business mangers?
Platforms such as Salesforce allow managers to
1. Focus on the business problem
2. Test out solutions without fear of a costly failure
3. Not be constrained by the possibilities predetermined
by a software designer
4. Embed continuous improvement
10. Implementing Improvement
Owning the change
During App design
a) Teams can map out processes and workflows that
help achieve team objectives and company goals
b) Obtain group consensus on performance metrics
that align the company goals with individual work
11. Implementing Improvement
Facilitating adoption
a) Incremental deployment of features and functions
b) Data streams start working immediately thereby
allowing testing of all strategic or operational
hypothesis
c) Feedback is used for easy redesign when necessary
12. Current App scenario
Most organizations face the App Gap – No in-house
resources to design and maintain apps
External Software developers do not have
performance improvement expertise
New platforms like Salesforce allow organizations to
deliver apps without an in-house IT department.
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USA providing care to patients at 18 independent skilled
nursing facilities
The provider group and the nursing homes are different
business entities.
Traditional working styles that are dependent on
a) paper based information systems
b) Coordination of work is dependent on meetings or
phone-calls
c) Field data collection is very limited thereby hampering
improvement efforts
14. Business strategy
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patients at multiple skilled nursing facilities
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Information systems - Record keeping of each visit
regarding clinical care and for billing purposes
Operations competencies – Seamless coordinated care
despite different providers
Focus on cost and quality- Discharging appropriately while
length of stay remains optimal
16. Approaching the business problem
Is the operational structure adequate?
What are the Coordination and Collaboration needs?
How to use the data?
How to use knowledge for repeatability?
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18. Requirement 1: Realtime Information
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record keeping.
Problem:
1.
Provider notes in the patient records from different facilities are not
integrated into one system as the facilities are different businesses.
Hence they cannot be used in a single system
2.
Provider notes for billing are paper based ,non-uniform and erratically
prepared. Errors and missing notes are a frequent occurrence. New
patient face-sheets, which are also required for the billing process, have
to be collated in parallel. The information has to move from provider to
corporate and from there to the billing company
Solution
1.
Encounter information should come directly from point of care
2.
Safeguards to prevent errors and missing notes
19. Design for Req 1
Using imaging to move face-sheets direct from point
of care to billing company
Point of care electronic submission of encounter
information
Reducing missing information with mandated fields
Billing process is tied to the patient follow up process
required in Objective 2
20. Requirement 2: Provider availability
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need.
Problem
1.
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resources stretched on some days.
2. More random visits than planned visits
3. Accurate provider resource planning not possible
Solution
1.
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2. Plan for a certain load of emergent needs every day
3. Level out visits across the weekdays
4. Level out visits across providers
21. Design for Req 2
Planning a Follow-up visit become a mandated
process when completing a patient encounter
Automatic creation of follow- up lists
Visual tool that helps monitor visit load across the
week
Central ability to reschedule evenly across weekdays
and providers
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Solution
New processed that are needed :
Who will see the patient and when? (previously addressed)
Knowledge of previous interactions with the patient to be shared other team
members
Sharing the care ‘thought process’ with the other providers
Delegation of tasks between providers
Ensuring closing of tasks
Sharing specifics on the social/family environment of the patient
27. How to implement?
Each visit information would include a note that
makes aware key issues or care ‘pointers’ which are
then seen by the follow up provider
Task delegation by provider and date
Sharing of notes about the family or other specifics
on the patient record
Notes about the patient directed to a specific
providers but available to all providers
32. Data vacuum
Scenario:
1. The only ‘truth’ is the billing information available at long
intervals from the billing company
2. No information on clinical metrics or for other business
needs
Problem
Data from the visits is inadequate from clinical perspective
There is no standardized data collection
33. How to implement Improvement?
Data collection and the dashboard are on the same
system
The dashboard, report generation and data collection
can be easily redesigned as new business questions or
problems arise
Ex: How many patient encounters related to treating
cellulitis among other problems? How broad is the
problem that new interventions need to be
incorporated?
36. Repeatable service quality through
utilization of explicit knowledge
Explicit knowledge is knowledge that can be codified
into protocols and algorithm
Scenario: Knowledge sharing was currently through
training sessions in the monthly staff meetings
Problem: The protocols are not accessible at the point
of service Ex: Best practice in Antibiotic selection
37. How is this achieved?
Protocols and algorithms for areas of concern are
created or obtained from expert sources
This is made available on the mobile app in a
searchable format
Example of a treatment guideline on next slide
38.
39. Performance improvement in the
mobile age
Where can you apply this approach?
1. Mobile teams in healthcare
2. Field work such as social workers, service teams
3. Wherever Plan-do-study-act cycles need to be
deployed quickly
4. Other environments where there are opportunities
to expedite data collection or decision making using
tablets or smartphone use