A Study on the Benefit of Implementing Clinical Information System for Intensive Care Unit in Hospital
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Liu, Shuan-Ling
Abstract
Due to global trend of aging population, the demand for medical resources and how to effectively use it is getting increasingly urgent. Among all health care fields, critical care and ICU are two units facing the greatest challenges, including insufficiency of healthcare resources, uneven healthcare quality, unequal relationships between physicians and patients, and incomplete integration of the healthcare network and so on,. It therefore becomes urgent to evaluate the costs and benefits of implementing a clinical information system to improve and solve the problems in the healthcare environment.
The purposes of this research are to discuss the concept and reality of a clinical information system and to analyze the benefits of implementing clinical information systems in ICU. Guided by Porter''s value chain model, this research is able to explore the current challenges in emergency procedures of ICU, and the differential benefits of ICU procedures after implementation. Moreover, for project-related members such as nurses, patients and physicians, their professional opinions and feedbacks are interviewed as well. Based on the qualitative and quantitative data, for parts respectively in the human resources efficiency, quality of healthcare, patient satisfaction, as well as procedure streamlined are found to be improved.
Future endeavor based on our initial findings can be made on examining the benefits of system implementation and the improvement of the organization, or expansion of the implementation of clinical information systems to other clinic units, even more applications of combination of informatics and telecommunication techniques in healthcare fields to extend the services to homecare, among others. We hope that an ultimate goal of being a cloud environment without boundary for healthcare can be realized soon.
Subjects
醫療資訊系統
急重症
臨床資訊系統
遵從率
組合式照護
SDGs
Type
thesis
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