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Information Technology in Healthcare Industry
PAPER ON
IT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENTIN
HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY
By:Rajender Kumar Lakhanpal
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Table of Contents
1. Abstract
2. Introduction
3. IT, Informatics, and Productivity of Healthcare.
4. Informatics
5. Project and Knowledge Management
6. Data Mining
7. Business Intelligence and Decision support systems
8. Discussions
9. Microsoft Amalga - Example
10. Conclusion
11. References
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Abstract
The role of information technology and in particular the Project Management principles find a
great application in healthcare industry. The way in which the working and performance of all
systems in healthcare industry has changed is tremendous. This paper tries to look at the patterns
and trends of change in the Healthcare industry in last few years and how IT and Project
Management principles have found their application and thus have revolutionized the way
Healthcare sector used to work. Today, the profit margins, customer service levels, customer satisfaction levels, better inventory management, improved coordination with suppliers and
prediction of upcoming trends have all seen a paradigm shift much to the credit of IT and Project
Management.
As we go ahead we will also discuss about one of the powerful Information systems built for the
Healthcare industry.
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money on certain categories of patients and it is important to understand where those areas are
and how to address them.
Changes in Demography, social and cultural factors are putting more pressure than before on
healthcare providers to be reachable, reasonable, and quick to respond. So, healthcare
organizations rely on technology to help achieve their objectives.
Key healthcare organization objectives include:
Better quality of care for customers Improved patient outcomes and service
Increased productivity and workflow efficiency
Better information management at the point of care
Improved and integrated communication
Privacy and protection of patient information
The healthcare environment is one that calls for integration. Patients information is spread
across different systems in private and public healthcare entities, which makes it hard and costly
for healthcare professionals to distribute imperative medical, clinical, and patient information.
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in under/overbilling of recipients. Technologies can help in enhancing anticipatory treatment for
mitigating illnesses from developing into fully developed chronic diseases and in monitoring the
overall activities of the health providers, and this includes finally enhancing patient experience.
Informatics:
The science which is concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving and classifying
recorded information from the various sources. Health/medical informatics is the combination of
informational science, computer science, and health care. It deals with resources, devices and
methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in
healthcare and biomedicine. Tools related to health informatics include apart from computers
clinical guidelines, information and communication systems and formal medical terminologies.
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Project and Knowledge Management
Project management is what addresses the incorporation of the correct tactics to acquire the most
appropriate technology platform(s). For example, when a healthcare product/service provider
wants to establish a new database system that facilitates the conversion of conventional paper-
based routines into Superior digital assets for clinical and treatment activities, the organization
has to consider which technology has the best to offer with the most feasible functionality
corresponding to the operations of the organization. This will include the cost of the technology,
scalability, integration ability with existing systems, and user friendliness. Once the technology
is selected, various factors to promote the most seamless integration into the work environment
must be considered. This includes schedules, training for workers/users and eventually complete
rollout to the workforce. This theory overlaps project management to an extent while considering
implementation stages of the new technologies. It also considers additional critical factors of
ensuring the systems adoption by users with the goal that it becomes a key component to the
everyday activities of its users. KM theory thus promotes the active utilization of information
and creation of knowledge within an organization, concepts that drive best practices, and
innovation.
Data Mining
Six Sigma is a method that gains advantage from data resources and incorporates statistical
applications and visual capabilities to address the process efficiencies and variance. By analyzing
data resources of operational processes with the use of statistical techniques, one can determine
which types of practices result in variances in performance. Designing Models for More robust
and sophisticated techniques for analyzing the data involve the utilization of quantitative
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methods and statistical testing in order to determine patterns and trends that may exist in
particular service activities.
Business Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
The analytic methods focus on presenting data in a timely and understandable manner, where
decision makers can quickly view the analytic platform(s) to identify factors impacting
operational performances. These data-driven software technologies and initiatives encompass the
sphere of decision support systems and business intelligence. The report generation, trend and
pattern analysis, quantitative and statistical analytics, graphical interfaces provide users and the
decision makers with timely, accurate and actionable information to enhance strategy
formulation. Informatics for improving efficiencies includes optimizing of resource allocations
corresponding to activities and procedures. The utilization of decision support systems and
business intelligence help reduce patients waiting times for treatment, adjusting treatment
procedures to enhance outcomes, reducing inefficiencies in billing, reducing lag times in lab and
radiology exam completion and reporting times etc. The result thus is efficient management of
healthcare operations and tracking of costs and care effectiveness and superior outcomes for
patients.
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Discussions
Four Key Areas of Focus for Healthcare Efficiencies
With the turbulent environment in the healthcare industry, it is great that healthcare organizations
are embracing the potential of technologies and informatics for leveraging information and their
ability to enhance efficiencies of operations. Informatics applications and capabilities within the
healthcare domain are categorized into following distinct areas:
1. Financial: This includes Tracking using activity-based costing, ensuring that services
provided are correctly billed, compensated and that expenses stay within budget. The
computerized financial systems help in generating data and report-driven balance sheets,
profit and loss statements and other accounting reports point to need for Informatics. For
example, many hospitals, especially non-profit systems, finance growth and other capital
initiatives through the effective use of fixed income securities, many of which may be
guaranteed by a governmental authority.
2. Clinical compliance: This includes ensuring that appropriate procedures are applied to the
right patient at the right time while making sure that staffing patterns and other reportable
parameters are performing within acceptable limits, and alerting as quickly as possible when
they are otherwise. Organizations such as Department of Health have very stringent, detailed
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regulations as to the exact protocols that need to be followed under different health care
circumstances. Also, government entities have set different levels of compliance for
organizations to protocol standards. If not complied, this can lead into lost revenue, lost
market share or diminished stature. Informatics, at an operational level, identifies falls risk
patients and facilitates analysis of other aspects of electronic medical records (EMRs) to
ensure that proper protocols are in place to mitigate the negative ramifications of falls risk.
3. Quality improvement: This includes the analysis of clinical data to find the protocols that
provide the best outcomes in an economically sustainable way. Equipments like Ventilators,
smart pumps, IVs, vital sign tracking monitors and other devices like these cancommunicate to EMRs and thus populate data directly into an EMR which facilitated by
information technologies, offer a capability to page a clinician or otherwise to provide a real-
time alert if a certain clinical value is outside accepted standards. These technologies also
help for more advanced data analytics. Statistical analytics such as correlations help in
identifying the best possible order sets for a given condition. Informatics incorporating
statistical correlations and causation factors can identify that individuals who receive a
certain type of specialized therapy have much shorter lengths of stay and lower rates of
readmission than those who do not, for comparing different clinical regimens to factors such
as patient satisfaction survey scores, identifying whether certain high-priced medications
or medical devices may provide a less wanted outcome than lower-priced medications and to
identify which doctors have a tendency to order those medications. Looking at comparisons,
informatics will enable to compare physician ordering patterns with outcomes such as
reduced length of stay, reduced readmissions, lesser complications or co morbidities and
profit generation metrics. This provides an important level of responsibility.
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4. Patient satisfaction/marketing: Various aspects of a patients stay were problematic how
are those measured, identified, and remedied for the future? Happy customers provide good
word-of-mouth recommendations of their experiences. A survey with a set of questions to
recently discharged patients can be very helpful. This kind of data can reveal areas where an
organization needs to fine-tune and make changes to certain operational processes that are
resulting in patient dissatisfaction and this gives an opportunity to be proactive and build
systems to automatically route these comments to the appropriate decision makers in the
organization and track the timeliness of resolution. Medicare regulations can be helpful to
spell out a formal defined procedure for grievances which have mandate about how facilitiesneed to address the grievances. The second type of satisfaction issues can be gathered from
surveys that are taken directly from the patient while he or she is in the facility. This ensures
timely feedback of issues while they are occurring and take steps to address them. Responses
can be entered into a database and tracked and checked for trends and areas of action over
time through the utilization of informatics methods. This type of survey has rapid response
capability. This can transform a dissatisfied customer to a satisfied one.
Patient/Consumer Data Privacy
The most critical element that needs to be maintained, analyzed, preserved and strengthened is
the privacy safeguards of healthcare-related data of individuals/patients. The integration of data
resources from various healthcare providers and databases will no doubt enhance efficiencies
from analytics capabilities and information generation. As developing more robust data resource
enhances efficiencies, it also introduces the requirements for strict, well-defined and enforced
standards to protect the privacy rights of individual customers for health-related data. New
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privacy policies need to be designed to address any changes that emerge within the dominion of
data access and exchanges in the evolving healthcare system.
Microsoft Amalga A Powerful Information System Example
Microsoft Amalga Hospital Information System - delivers a complete, agile hospital information
system that is affordable, flexible, and intuitive. It has been developed in collaboration with
pharmacists, nurses, physicians, auxiliary staff, and IT professionals and the solution was
designed to meet the needs of healthcare professionals while minimizing the cost of operations
and resources required by global healthcare organizations.
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Logical Diagram of Microsoft Amalga
Amalga HIS Radiology Management offers:
Automatic order management
Automatic scanning and attachment of hard copies to investigation orders.
Image-manipulation tools
Multiple language support for patients demographic and screen tag information
Integrated database within Amalga HIS that makes information accessible directly from PACS.
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Template-driven options including voice recognition and report production.
Discerning report editor that works on written or dictated report.
Customizable first choice tabs for planned investigations.
Instantaneous investigation job to a particular radiologist at time of ordering.
Warning/Alert system that provides real-time notifications to prevent redundancy of reports.
Online historical studies for quick retrieval, regardless of the age of the investigation.
Limitless investigation revisions that save any or all key images, windows-level settings, and
image remarks.
Creation of CD for PACS studies, reports and EMR. Options include all or selected portions of a patients EMR like DICOM and JPEG images and reports.
Conclusion
Today when we see that we the challenges to meet the expectations of customers and also to
survive against changing technology and strong competition the emphasis should be on
infrastructure that can have sustainable growth. The implementation of Information technology
systems can be really a great competitive advantage and revenue generating option and the past
records and the latest trends are a reflection of this. The challenge to move from Customer
satisfaction to Customer delight to Customer Astonishment can be met only through leveraging
the Information Technology systems and Project Management Principles.
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References
http://www.microsoft.com/amalga/products/microsoft-amalga-his/default.mspx
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2191/2401984942_e1f6a2ee38_o.jpg
http://www.pacificglobalsolutions.com/images/healthcare_chart.jpg
http://www.ittoday.info/Articles/Healthcare_Informatics.htm
http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/research/391full.pdf
http://cisco.biz/web/strategy/docs/healthcare/healthcare_industry_overview.pdf
www.wikipedia.org
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