Information System

Information technology (IT) is leading the charge in competitive industry, IT can help catapult the company to higher dividends, leveraging, and profitability. This paper will highlight the author's opinion on information system technology and the results of the stakeholder’s effect on the selection process of an IT system. This paper will identify the procedures for selecting and acquiring an information system design for safety with high reliability in the health care field. 

The quality of knowledge management and information technology will depend on the organizations scrub, store, and use of the IT system. An effective use of data and information helps organizations improve quality of information and knowledge management that will contribute ultimately to the organization’s performance (Rivard & Lapointe, 2012). The assumption is as follows: these initiatives will bring multiple stakeholders such as, provider organizations, hospitals, physicians, community health clinics, local public health departments, and emergency department into formal partnerships to exchange health data electronically (Nurach, Thawesaengskulthai, & Chandrachai, 2012).

Organizational Goals  

The organizations goals will have an affect on the selection of the information system, the immediate goals of the company are to assess the practice’s information management needs, and establish goals and objectives for the new system based on these needs. Conduct a review of the literature on EMR products and the market resources for these products. Investigate the top ten EMR system vendors for the health care industry. Visit two to four health care organizations similar to ours that have implemented an EMR system. Schedule vendor demonstrations for times when physicians, nurses, and others can observe and evaluate without interruptions (Wager, Lee, Glaser, & Burn, 2009).

The company has the option of purchasing the system from a vendor or leased through an application service provider (ASP) (Grover & Kohli, 2012). The difference is an ASP is a company that deploys, hosts, and manages one or more clinical or administrative information systems through centrally located servers (generally via the Internet), often on a fixed, per-use basis. The ASP also maintain the system’s development life cycle (Heart & Pliskin, 2002).

Decisions are based upon the formulation of the organization’s strategy concerning the goals and mission of the association, initiatives and activities one will assume to accomplish the mission and achieve the goals. The formulation will encompass the organization’s mission to deliver superior quality medical care and reduce the price of care while conserving the quality of health care (Wager, Lee, Glaser, & Burn, 2009). Reducing inappropriate and unnecessary patient care is the organizations greatest leveraging point. The contract should stipulate initiatives to allow the company at any time doing procedures ordering to suggest a more cost-effective model (Jackson, 2010).

One strategy is to deliver a system with a single sign-on and common access to Interface existing heterogeneous application systems database use in common with all applications, and permitting one vendor to supply a common suite of clinical applications. Three areas will require a strategic strategy such as developing an application agenda, a record of favorite applications, shapes the initiatives to improve the IT asset, and involves concepts that manage the technique to a class of initiatives and applications (Emigh, 2005 ; Wager, Lee, Glaser, & Burn, 2009).

Another strategy will encompass five major vectors such as organizational strategies, continuous improvement of information management, core process, examination of the goals of new information technology, assessment of strategic trajectories and fundamental views about our competition (Wager, Lee, Glaser, & Burn, 2009). 

The information system asset encompasses those resources the organizations has or can acquire and are earmark to further the initiatives, plan, and goals of the company. Strategy discussion identifies specific changes or enhancements to the composition of the asset for example, the implementation of a new application and general properties of the asset that must exist for example, high reliability of the infrastructure. The IT asset has five components: infrastructure, application, IT staff, data, and IT governance (Wager, Lee, Glaser, & Burn, 2009).

The applications of the system are easily access and user-friendly. They will consist of building, scheduling, electronic medical records, sourcing, application acquisitions, and application uniformity. The system can also help develop a strategy concerning properties of the complete portfolio of other applications, including national and international communication (Wager, Lee, Glaser, & Burn, 2009).

During the planning process, the organization will realize the need for an infrastructure. Companies’ desires are to expand organizations systems to other stakeholders. This will mean that hospitals, physicians, community health clinics, local public health departments, and emergency departments will need to confirm that they can provide low-cost and secure network connections with very high reliability, and backup energy sources. Stakeholders affect the selection process of the information system (Wager, Lee, Glaser, & Burn, 2009).    

Staffing, a very important element is the individuals filling these roles are competent, they execute well, they are good consultants, they provide excellent support, and they stay current in their field of expertise. In addition to ensuring that IT staff possesses desired attributes, senior leadership may become involved in discussions centered on the attraction and retention of IT staff. Although the IT job market ebbs and flows, the market for talented and experienced IT staff is likely to be competitive for some time (Wager, Lee, Glaser, & Burn, 2009).   

Conclusion

One of the requirements of the new Obama health care program for hospital, clinics, and other medical facilities, is an existing electronic medical records, administration, and human resources information system. The system is required for communicating directly with the federal government and the Obama health care programs for auditing, payments, reporting, and messaging purposes. To compete in the competitive industry, organizations must be able to communicate with their stakeholders, the public, and other community organizations at computer speed to maintain their competitive edge.

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