The types of management information systems used across health care may vary by the setting, but they have in common the objective to streamline and enhance administrative processes and thereby support the institution’s ultimate goal of delivering optimal patient care.
In this Application Assignment, you will explore ways that technology might help address health care management problems with which you are already familiar from past coursework and/or professional experiences, such as issues in human resources, operations, organizational management, or financial management.
Prepare for this Application Assignment as follows:
Then write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:
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Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style for Walden Students to ensure your in-text citations and reference list are correct.
The article examines how U.S. health care organizations are in need of financial information systems that can accommodate expansion. The problem in health care, however, is that the best-in-breed approach taken by many institutions has created a world of disparate systems that require interfacing with other hospital systems.
The article focuses on the enterprise-wide solutions in U.S. hospitals use to reduce their costs in March of 2010. It mentions that such solutions have the capability to integrate information systems across the different facilities of healthcare institutions. The author states that some of the benefits that hospital administrators can get from these solutions include centralized key business functions, reduced operational costs and efficient data organization.
This article recounts a prominent hospital’s challenge in getting critical information quickly to its health care providers, and its successful efforts at standardizing its reporting environment, which included offering business intelligences dashboards and self-service analytic applications for clinicians, administrators, and executives.
This article describes steps a health care foundation took to improve the automated charge-capture technology used by their physicians, and technological and human factors that were considered in moving to a new system.
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