Title :
Event Management to Improve Patient Safety, Quality and Efficiency
Author :
McNeal, Michael ; Harmon, Mike
fDate :
Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006
Abstract :
Healthcare organizations have cycled through a number of different approaches to architectures, designs and integration strategies. The tendency is to focus on new products, but little focus is spent on event-driven architectures which coincidentally has the most impact on patient safety. This lack of focus results in diseconomy of complexity because systems and functions begin to overlap and no IT governance is established, leading to operational inefficiencies, loss in staff productivity and delayed decision-making. If healthcare organizations do not begin to build an overlying IT blueprint, systems deployment will begin to spiral beyond control and will not be recoverable without a master technology plan
Keywords :
decision support systems; health care; information services; medical computing; medical information systems; IT blueprint; decision-making; diseconomy; event management; event-driven architecture; healthcare organization; patient safety; system deployment; Control systems; Decision making; Delay; Health and safety; Medical services; Product safety; Productivity; Quality management; Spirals; Technology planning;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0032-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259310