ABSTRACT
Under the current Medicare Prospective Payment System method and the ever-changing managed care environment, the long-term care information system is vital to providing quality care and to surviving in business. system selection process should be an interdisciplinary effort involving all necessary stakeholders for the proposed system. The system selection process can be modeled following the Systems Developmental Life Cycle: identifying problems, opportunities, and objectives; determining information requirements; analyzing system needs; designing the recommended system; and developing and documenting software.
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Management Information Systems , Medical Records Systems, Computerized/organization & administration , Nursing Homes/organization & administration , Attitude of Health Personnel , Attitude to Computers , Budgets , Choice Behavior , Commerce , Computer Literacy , Computer User Training , Contract Services/organization & administration , Data Collection , Decision Support Techniques , Health Care Sector , Humans , Management Information Systems/economics , Management Information Systems/supply & distribution , Medicare/economics , Needs Assessment , Negotiating , Patient Admission , Planning Techniques , Professional Staff Committees/organization & administration , Prospective Payment System/economics , United StatesABSTRACT
Documentation is the last component of anesthesia patient management to be affected by technology. Anesthesia information management systems (AIMS) have been introduced in a limited number of practice sites. The automated systems provide unbiased reporting of most patient information. This results in improved patient care and possible medical legal advantages. AIMS also allow anesthesia departments to monitor their business related activity.
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Anesthesia Department, Hospital , Anesthesiology , Management Information Systems/statistics & numerical data , Medical Records Systems, Computerized/organization & administration , Anesthesia Department, Hospital/organization & administration , Anesthesiology/organization & administration , Documentation , Humans , Management Information Systems/legislation & jurisprudence , Management Information Systems/supply & distribution , Nurse Anesthetists/organization & administration , Purchasing, Hospital/organization & administration , Quality Assurance, Health Care/organization & administration , Total Quality Management/organization & administrationABSTRACT
Los ordenadores de bolsillo o PDAs (personal digital assistants) constituyen una alternativa a las clásicas agendas y libros de notas que todos hemos utilizado en medicina. Permiten además disponer de documentación actualizada, recoger información "in situ" e incluso trasmitirla a distancia en el momento. En este artículo se revisan los principales sistemas operativos, las aplicaciones más útiles en medicina y las utilidades disponibles para Alergología
Pocket computers or PDAs (personal digital assistants) are an alternative to the classic agendas and paper and pencil note books that have been worldwide used in medicine. Their technology permit the storage of revised information as well as to file data from patients and even to transmit it to central operation centres in real time. In this article we revise the main operating systems, useful applications in medicine and available utilities in allergy
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Hypersensitivity/classification , Hypersensitivity/epidemiology , Medical Informatics/methods , Medical Informatics/statistics & numerical data , Medical Informatics Applications , Allergy and Immunology/organization & administration , Information Services/organization & administration , Information Storage and Retrieval/methods , Medical Informatics/organization & administration , Medical Informatics/standards , Medical Informatics Computing , Data Display , Management Information Systems/supply & distribution , Management Information SystemsABSTRACT
Descreve o processo de discussäo sobre o tema informaçäo e saúde, no interior do Projeto UNI, sob a perspectiva da criaçäo do Laboratório Interdisciplinar e Multidisciplinar de Informaçöes, Estudos e Desenvolvimento de Distritos Sanitários (LIM), proposto para formaçäo e capacitaçäo de recursos humanos, bem como para pesquisa, extensäo e cooperaçäo técnica orientadas para a construçäo dos Distritos Sanitários no Distrito Federal
