• DocumentCode
    471361
  • Title

    Event Management to Improve Patient Safety, Quality and Efficiency

  • Author

    McNeal, Michael ; Harmon, Mike

  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006
  • Firstpage
    113
  • Lastpage
    116
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    New York, NY
  • ISSN
    1557-170X
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0032-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1557-170X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259310
  • Filename
    4461697