Methodist hospital

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Methodist hospital

• Your name
• University
• Class

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Methodist hospital

• Methodist hospital merged with Indian University
  Hospitals.
• 43,000 patients
• Net income of over 23 million dollars
• Operating revenue generated was 416 million

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Information systems and use of it in health care
organizations

• Focus on deploying innovative patient care
  information systems
• Store and transfer the knowledge about medical
  procedures
• Should focus on integration of information
  systems
• Provide better solutions

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Importance of technology for the organizations

• Technology is important issue
• Create and develop innovative technology
• Market the technology
• Spending a lot of time and money on developing
  and promoting technologies.
• Focusing on identifying and developing new
  strategies.

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Problems and causes of information systems in
Methodist Hospital

• IS have a prominent significance in increasing
  the efficiency of business.
• Hospital was losing its reputation because of its
  poor information system services.
• Ineffective TDS
• Lack of efficient services

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Continued

• IBM mainframe create problems for the
  organization
• 700 computers
• Creating problem for the organization
• Takes a lot of time accessing data of patients

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• No standard way of identifying patients by
  several clinics and departments.
• No uniformity in identifying patients followed in
  the clinics and departments
• be well equipped with the latest technology and
  with the system

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In order to fix the problems, which are
discussed above, some of the effective measures
are as follows

• there are number of cases which are handled by
  the staff members of Methodist hospital
• To develop an effective and leading edge
  technology, which will be able to provide the
  hospital with number of ideas
• The technical problems in the hospital occurred
  due to lack of communication

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