Good Essay On Healthcare Information Technology

Activity 1

Mid-Columbia medical Center is a small health facility located north-central Oregon area and serving semi-rural and rural residents (Government HealthIT http://www.govhealthit.com/print/4447). Having implementing an EHR system, the facility has demonstrated an instructive example of how small community hospitals can reap the incentives of meeting both ambulatory and acute-care requirements of the meaningful use EHR implementation stage. Mid-Columbiua selected a platform from Horsham, a PA-based next generation healthcare. Out of the $600,000 initial approximate, the implementation which took more than five years turned out successful but has cost between $3.5 million to $4 million on the inpatient side.
The facility has a massive human resource, IT and capital investments merged to deliver the needs of the community. Its prime goal is to build clinical quality and efficiency for the long term by drawing the communities health interest together (physicians, public health departments, federal health centers and other hospitals) toward the same EHR and national information—sharing platforms. Its approach to success was deployment of IT capabilities, expansion of groups of its physicians and convincing of a federally qualified health center to select the same ambulatory platform to gain a solid partnership with local health departments for establishment of a health information exchange network.

Activity 2

iPatientCare EHR is the leading EHR vendor in the market according to www. capterra.com. iPatientCare is a pioneer in mHealth and cloud-based EHR systems and integrated patient management systems. It has a host of other applications including mobile apps, HIE, Patient Portal, ambulatory, acute and sub-acute among others. It serves more than 43,000 physicians nationally and is preferred by NASA Space Medicine, US Army, Regional Extension Centers, hospitals and other partners. The system is certified for meaningful use stage 2 in Ambulatory and Inpatient and is designated a test EHR by CMS.
MediTouch Electronic Health Record is software in the market. It is designed to be both web-based and support touch screen interfaces. It is for this reason that the product is highly differentiated and easy to use. The core of the EHR provide charting , problem listing, medication management and electronic prescription among other functionalities. The system can be configured to display personal charting preferences and custom forms that works on a touch screen. Its deployment is either standalone or in conjunction with HealthFusion practices management system.
PrognoCIS is developed by Bismantic Inc. based in Silicon Valley CA. The system is based on the clouds and can be deployed on an integrated approach or on a single platform. Just like iPatientCare, it is Meaningful Use Stage 2 certified and provides an easy to use dashboard highlights.

Activity 3

RFP
EHR system for a small hospital facility with 100 beds, 40 staff and 200 patients a day
This RFP is guided by the following terms and instructions
Issue RFP
Intent to response
Response posted
RFP response due
Vendor selected
Using the following information, please provide the following information about your organization.
General information
Parent company
Main contact
Market data
Breakdown of sites by pprovider
Size of current user base
Ratio of vendor provided install versus outsourced to 3rd parties
Implementation timeline
EHR customer satisfaction
Product information
Product name and version
Database/scheduling/billing
Hosted/ASP/ Client server
Patient portal inclusion
Modular
Comprehensive
Reporting capabilities
Certification and year
Meaningful use
Additional information

References

Appleby, C. (2012). Meaningful to the community. Retrieved from http://www.govhealthit.com/print/4447: http://www.govhealthit.com/print/4447
Irwin, K. (2014). Compare Electronic Health Records Software. Retrieved from Software Advise: http://www.softwareadvice.com/medical/electronic-medical-record-software-comparison/
Jeffrey Daigrepont, E. C. (2011). Complete Guide and Toolkit to Successful EHR Adoption: - Page.