Re: [Care2002-developers] The best HIS concept that I know off: the PeaceHealth Model

[Will Simpson]

I agree that peacehealth has articulated a strong and moving healthcare 
IT manifesto. These are noble goals indeed. One thing that was stressed 
in the articale was the need to integrate the payers in the design of 
applications and processes. We shouldn't forget that someone has to pay 
for healthcare and we have a responcibility to focus on this as much as 
actual healthcare. Ethical and elegant billing mechanisims are important 
to physicans and patients because they can reflect personal and business 
financial well-being or not.

Will Simpson

J. Antas wrote:

Hello fellow developers,

I am sure that you will appreciate the article "Development and
Implementation of an Information Management and Information Technology
Strategy for Improving Healthcare Services: A Case Study", that may be
downloaded from:
http://www.himss.org/content/files/him15307_9612.pdf
It is the best and most lucid analysis that I know of, about the inner
workings of a quality healthcare information system.
It is about a quality centered healthcare organization - PeaceHealth -
and how they achieved a state of excellence at the difficult task of
building and hospital information system (HIS).
In this article the human being, seen as a patient or as an employee, is
considered the most important asset of that organization.
That's how it should be. That's how PeaceHealth become such a successful
organization.
At the end of that reading I am sure that you will agree with me in
trying to bend the Care2x project to support those same paradigms of
excellence.
At Care2x project we are already have most of the tools needed. With a
conceptual twist and a more robust data model we could well have a very
good Care2x system based in the PeaceHealth Concept before the end of 
2004.

Finally, take a look at the PeaceHealth way of doing healthcare, visit
their site at: http://www.peacehealth.org/ .
Best Regards,

J. Antas

P.S. I am in no way related to the PeaceHealth Organization. They are an
american organization and as far as I know they do not exist outside the
USA.








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