STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN HOSPITALS

Strategic Management in Hospitals





Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY3

PREPARING FOR HIMS STRATEGY DESIGN AND PLANNING3

ANALYSIS4

Using IT4

FLOW CHART5

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD5

STEPS TO BE IMPLEMENTED5

ACTIVE SURVEY PROGRAM7

CONCLUSION8

Strategic Management in Hospitals

Executive Summary

The strategic planning process has proven to be invaluable to a number of Hospitals successes. Involvement of all levels of the organization and integration of plans solidifies organizational commitments and provides a framework that assures accomplishment of overall goals. With major developments in computerization of medical records and other systems that support patient care data analysis on the horizon, Hospital's integrated plans are defining crucial information system projects. As the pool of available resources for projects continues to shrink, the planning format described assures funding of information system needs that will secure a position for any Hospital in the health care marketplace of the future. Strategic planning plays a key role in most healthcare systems as the recogniztion is needed for changing the overall healthcare environment. The importance of strategic planning is successful when a thought process is such that the planning is never fully completed. Innovation must be the name of the game when it comes to strategic planning. It is a process that is in changing considerably.

Preparing For Hims Strategy Design and Planning

Since much patient information is relevant for studies - such as diagnosis, age, gender, lab values - are processed electronically, it should be possible to use hospital information system (HIS) data to support patient recruitment. Recently, we reported on a system to support. Based on encouraging results from this study, we designed a study to address the following questions: _ is a notification system for patient recruitment based on routine HIS data technically feasible for multiple studies? _ Will these notification systems be accepted in the clinical setting? _ Can implementation of these notification systems improve patient recruitment? Methods Automated notifications and HIS reports for each clinical study, we designed a database query based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. (Smith , 2005)

Analysis

Using IT

The queries mentioned above must be solved in order to improve the hospital management system. These queries are to be executed automatically once per day. The links to potential study patients are sent to the study physicians by a daily e-mail using a communication server (e*Gate from Sun Microsystems, Inc.). This e-mail just requests the physician to log on to the HIS and does not contain any patient names. Within the HIS, a specific report for each study is available, including access to the electronic patient record, enabling eligibility verification. (Mercer , 2001)

Flow Chart



Electronic Health Record

The strategic planning regarding the electronic health record (EHR) builds consensus about where the organization is going, how to get there, and how to know when the vision is achieved. People often consider taking the base of strategic planning a step ahead: into the area regarding strategic management. This particular concept not promises only planning for a number of years to come but a part from that it also brings about a change in its environment, furthermore it elaborates ...