Methodist hospital Your name University Class Methodist hospital

Methodist hospital Your name University Class

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

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

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. • •

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

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

• 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

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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