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Based on the two recommended technology systems, the organization should choose the Admission Discharge and Transfer (ADT) system based on its numerous features and advantages. The ADT system is a crucial component in health care information systems and is commonly used to track patients starting from when they get into a health care facility to the time they are discharged or taken to another health care facility. This information stores different forms of data; including patients' contact information, names, age, and medical record numbers. Implementing the ADT system in the organization will help keep crucial information and make it more accessible for health care professionals, besides making it easily transferable to other health care facilities, thus improving the quality and speed of providing health care services to patients.
Choosing the ADT system would be the best option because it has been attributed to various benefits, including improving patient care, collecting more reliable information, and interoperability. These systems usually create a workflow that enhances the collection of crucial information upon admission of the patient and then stores the data in a well-organized manner. The ADT system is designed to assist in improving the quality of patient information by ensuring that it is always updated while increasing reliability by providing context, for instance, historical records and notes where possible (Bartley & Daiker, 2022). This system can play a crucial role in improving patient care because it collects and organizes data in one easy-to-use database. This helps health care professionals to improve the use of patient history, which generally improves the quality and timeliness of patient care. For instance, if a patient has a history of a specific health condition or illness, the medical practitioners will receive notifications immediately after the patient is admitted to the health care facility. Due to this, medical professionals can easily determine whether the disease is relevant to the current concerns and take necessary action. Additionally, the ADT system has a high level of interoperability. The medical center can set up an ADT interface between various hospitals and huge medical systems in order to notify a patient's care team of admission, discharge, or transfer to a hospital. This will allow the health care providers outside the medical center to be well-informed on what took place during the patient’s visit.
During the implementation of the ADT system in the medical center, there are various ethical considerations that must be observed. Every health care facility has to uphold various technological principles, including accountability, data protection, and privacy (Shahid et al., 2022). The health care facility must ensure that patient-sensitive data is safeguarded to prevent malicious attacks. Most patients also prefer privacy; hence, the management must ensure that patient information is not shared with unauthorized persons. Moreover, the organization could invest its financial resources more effectively into the ADT system centered on certain factors. Based on the provided information, the medical center can effectively invest in the technology system because the cost of the interface, software, implementation, training, and yearly maintenance costs is relatively lower than that of the other recommended system.
There are different ways the organization could effectively monitor the use of the ADT system. One of the ways would be by deploying monitoring devices. These monitoring devices can be placed strategically in the technology system to collect essential information and place them at ad hoc locations to track different types of transactions of interest to the organization. Some of the monitoring devices that can be used include intrusion prevention systems, audit record monitoring, malicious code protection software, scanning tools, and network monitoring software. Moreover, the organization could effectively invest its time into the implementation of the ADT system by training and educating the staff members on how to use this technology system. Training the staff will provide significant insights on how the system is used and minimize mistakes which will, in turn, improve the organization's operations and improve patient care.
References
Bartley, J., & Daiker, M. L. (2022). Technology Environment. In The CAHIMS Review Guide (pp. 23-42). Productivity Press.
Shahid, J., Ahmad, R., Kiani, A. K., Ahmad, T., Saeed, S., & Almuhaideb, A. M. (2022). Data protection and privacy of the internet of healthcare things (IoHTs). Applied Sciences, 12(4), 1927.