Enhancing Efficiency in Healthcare Data Management at Mountain View Community Hospital
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Explore challenges and benefits of database usage at the hospital to improve data quality, compliance with HIPAA, and web-based applications for streamlined processes. Learn about different types of databases and the importance of tracking operating costs. Discover examples of unstructured data and linkage between patient and charge tables.
Enhancing Efficiency in Healthcare Data Management at Mountain View Community Hospital
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Case Questions • Mountain View Community Hospital • P.33-35
Q1. Mission: High-quality, cost-effective health care services • Tracking operating costs, • Providing an electronic medical record for each patient, • Developing historical records of various treatment programs, • Tracking important measures, e.g., average length of patient stay, cost per day for a patient, and so on.
Q3: Costs and Risks of Using Database • New, specialized personnel. • Installation and management cost and complexity. • Conversion costs. • Need for explicit backup and recovery. • Organizational conflict.
Q4: How critical are data quality requirements at the hospital? • Patient care administration • Clinical services • Financial management and admin. services
Q5: Examples of Unstructured Data at Hospital • Medical scans (MRI, X-ray, etc.) • Clinical test data (blood test, etc.) • Documents (admission forms, physician referrals, etc.) • Unstructured text (doctors’ orders, doctors’ notes, etc.) • Test results (electrocardiograms, ultrasound, etc.)
Q7: Example of different types of databases • Personal databases • that reside on PDAs for physician. • Workgroup databases • contain information specific to one ward, by one group of researchers. • Departmental databases • store records that are only pertinent to that department • radiology might store all images from a patient x-ray or MRI,. • An enterprise database • store all information about a patient, such as the medical record, billing, etc.
Q8: Web-based Applications at the Hospital? • Intranet for access to databases by internal hospital personnel. • Extranet application to do third-party billing directly with insurance companies. • Benefit: streamlining such processes as third-party billing. • One major risk: Security.
Project assignment 1: • PRESCRIPTION . • INSURANCE_CARRIER • ITEM • LABORATORY
Project assignment 2: • Treatment View • Physician View • Laboratory View • Pharmacy View • Nurse_Supervisor View • Care Center View • Lab Supervisor View
Project assignment 3: Your Turn • Exercise Due next Wednesday • Also, identify the entities needed for each view from project assignment 2.