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A 7 page paper assessing the woeful state of IT at a private hospital in Arizona. Individual departments are operating as though they are autonomous, separate units rather than parts of a whole that has need for departmental data across the entire organization. The paper recommends replacing existing systems with a single, fully functional one. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: CC6_KSmgmtStFran.rtf
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St. Frances Hospital suffers an affliction common to the health care industry, which is that of operating with an insufficient information technology (IT) system. The hospital is profitable
and has experienced rather rapid growth in its 20-year history. It is expected to grow even more rapidly during the coming decade, and its IT systems must be able
to deal with the numbers of patients it expects in the future as well as providing better customer service in the meantime. Current Situation Billing Process
The president of the hospital, Stuart Towner, became aware of patient billing problems and mused while reading the third complaint letter in a month that there must
be a higher number of patients whose bills contained errors that he did not hear from. As is the case with virtually every other care-providing facility, there are times
that procedures or materials are ordered at the physician level but never used for the patient. At St. Frances, it appears that the trigger event invoking billing for supplies
or services is the order for the item rather than its delivery to the patient. This common occurrence would herald great problems in
any other industry, but health care is different in that practitioners are constrained by patient progress. A doctor may order a procedure for a patient whose condition later changes
so that the procedure is unwarranted. The physician also may leave orders for medication that the patient can have at the patients discretion but is not required. Pain
medication is one such item. St. Frances current method of billing responds to the order phase rather than to whether the patient actually received the item or service ordered,
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