Information Systems Responses
- Healthcare expenditures have been soaring at an unsustainably alarming rate hence drawing the attention of national authorities. Health information systems can change the whole domain with opportunities highlighted funded by the authorities
- Medical errors are dangerous causatives of adverse health consequences in hospitals. Hence, they needed to integrate HIS to open and eliminate such errors.
- Being an issue of people lacking primary healthcare insurance access to care brings another issue capacity limitations and flooded systems of care providers.
- Information to assemble for healthcare leadership in handling cost of care includes admission and readmission rates, the price per discharge, out-of-pocket costs and expenditure and patient case-mix.
- Information to assemble for monitoring healthcare quality includes patient results and outcomes, rates of readmission, infection rates, length of hospital stay and satisfaction surveys. Metrics of physician practice may differ from those of hospital institution in terms of patient outcomes and satisfaction rates.
- To monitor healthcare accessibility, the information to capture include occupancy rates, rates of insurance, number of insurance providers, population. Hospital facilities may look at population domain more than physician practices.
- Organizational challenges in improving the quality, access and expansion of healthcare include changing the existing norms, inadequate staff coordination, leadership gaps, limited organizational capacities, securing sustainability.
- Adequately sustainable external information synthesis will be needed to have evidence-based management, and third party facilitators are the best to provide the synthesis services.