Information System Briefing

Information System Briefing

Selecting and acquiring information systems is important to this organization. Information systems are designed based on the organization’s needs, thus simplifying patient needs, departmental, and other information. Information systems should also accommodate other departments as well such as radiology, pharmacy, and other various branches of the hospital. An information system is, of course, an expensive technology but can greatly benefit the hospital. With information systems many systems have to be installed databases, storage, identification, and selection. Once it is up the organization still has to think about an offsite back up station with a firewall. It is too much for an organization or investors to take in, making it imperative that the organization receives the system designed to their needs.

Selecting and Acquiring

When selecting what is needed for the organization one has to look at many different variables. Does the organization have many branches, do they have different specialties, patients, billing, and other various staff. Communication between these is vital to making the information system work. The information also has to be user friendly and easy to obtain by staff. If any of the information is not easily obtainable it will make the organization run slow in all departments or fragment it. That means that patient information could be lost resulting in duplicate testing. That is why acquiring a data storage system is important with information systems. That will allow the staff to search for what they need without clogging the whole system.

Most departments in the hospital would need The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (HTSDO). HTSDO is a system of medical terms and meanings. A women’s center or any Obstetrics and Gynecology department would want Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes for genetic testing and newborn screening (Detmer, 2010, p. 108). The organization would want to select and obtain Daily Med to see medications along with which drugs are approved by the FDA. The committee can also decide to have electronic prescriptions or keep prescriptions the same.

The committee would have to look, select, and acquire based on communication, standards, and necessity of the organization. The committee will have to look at many different key areas; data recording and retrieval, data movement, creation of evidence-based programs, workflow, decision support, review and sharing with stakeholders, secure web-portals, and many more key elements to any system (Detmer, 2010, p. 110-111). They also need to take into consideration electronic health records and some of the useful tools they can have with it. Electronic health records come with decision support, which helps the doctors take the correct actions. However, it can do more than that by tracking care.