Going All Digital
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Going All-Digital
Going All-Digital
Pepin Heart Hospital in Tampa, Florida wanted to go all-digital even with all the challenges it could face (Weimar, 2009, p. 2). Administrations wanted to improve the technology at the hospital and also wanted to keep improving the quality of patient care. The concept of the hospital was to provide a warm, friendly, and inviting environment. For patient privacy, the hospital has separate public areas and waiting rooms on one side and on the other side areas for the patient rooms. Even with all the advances with technology, going paperless for a hospital can be difficult. Even with all the complications Pepin Heart Hospital of a 125 opened its doors in 2006 to patients (Weimar, 2009, p. 2).
An all-digital hospital had never been done until Pepin Heart Hospital. With this new concept problems could occur. The new heart hospital needed five years to raise the capital. To obtain the $35 million for this project could be challenging because it is difficult for a hospital come up with that much money (Weimar, 2009, p. 2). Partnership and buy-in have to take place for an enormous project like this to be built. Partnership was created, GE Centricity, which is involved with EMR technology (Weimar, 2009, p. 2). After the capital was figured out with GE involved wanted to change the operation that was already started. Pepin Hospital had to start all over again. Another problem was getting the doctors to be willing to use the new technology (Weimar, 2009, p. 2).
To overcome problems with the doctors GE engineers were brought into the hospital. The engineers had to spend days with the doctors and nurses to observe their routines (Weimar, 2009, p. 2). Project managers incorporating this information into the construction design help the physicians use technology better. Another problem was the computer screens were too small for the physicians and nurses to track patient information bedside. The company that Pepin...
Going All-Digital
Pepin Heart Hospital in Tampa, Florida wanted to go all-digital even with all the challenges it could face (Weimar, 2009, p. 2). Administrations wanted to improve the technology at the hospital and also wanted to keep improving the quality of patient care. The concept of the hospital was to provide a warm, friendly, and inviting environment. For patient privacy, the hospital has separate public areas and waiting rooms on one side and on the other side areas for the patient rooms. Even with all the advances with technology, going paperless for a hospital can be difficult. Even with all the complications Pepin Heart Hospital of a 125 opened its doors in 2006 to patients (Weimar, 2009, p. 2).
An all-digital hospital had never been done until Pepin Heart Hospital. With this new concept problems could occur. The new heart hospital needed five years to raise the capital. To obtain the $35 million for this project could be challenging because it is difficult for a hospital come up with that much money (Weimar, 2009, p. 2). Partnership and buy-in have to take place for an enormous project like this to be built. Partnership was created, GE Centricity, which is involved with EMR technology (Weimar, 2009, p. 2). After the capital was figured out with GE involved wanted to change the operation that was already started. Pepin Hospital had to start all over again. Another problem was getting the doctors to be willing to use the new technology (Weimar, 2009, p. 2).
To overcome problems with the doctors GE engineers were brought into the hospital. The engineers had to spend days with the doctors and nurses to observe their routines (Weimar, 2009, p. 2). Project managers incorporating this information into the construction design help the physicians use technology better. Another problem was the computer screens were too small for the physicians and nurses to track patient information bedside. The company that Pepin...