Project Plan and Proposal Development

ALF - Assisted Living Facility

SNF - Skilled Nursing Facilities

IL - Independent Living

By 2030, 20 percent of Americans, about

70 million people were age 65 and older.

Why automation of assisted living facility?

Assisted living healthcare services involves a healthcare setup within which patients inside the community life and are offered healthcare services, especially the elderly population.

The sector is faced with an issue whereby patients keep waiting for longer time periods before they are served within the healthcare center. This is a threat to their lives, especially when they are in critical condition.

Timely patient care is among the most prevalent issues that reduce inefficiency in any healthcare facility. This leads to poor provision of services and also a reduction of service quality.

Consequently, community members tend to have minimal access to healthcare services, which is a threat to their lives.

Among the main issues facing the senior management of any healthcare facility is the delayed communication between different levels of the facility staff. In some cases, this has led to the failure of projects and even delayed operations within the facility.

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automation of assisted living facility

To solve the issue, there is a need to establish an automated system through which the facility management is able to receive the information and act promptly.

The system must be linked to the facility website in such a manner that information will be transmitted directly into the website and also the organizational managers.

Any projects happening within the community could be posted on the website at ease and the management would be in a position to access them at ease.

This will reduce the duration spent between the different levels within which information is passed.

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what technology in current and future

Current:

Currently my company is using plain html/java script based website.

This website helps company’s purpose marketing and facility management through email channel.

The company’s critical data are stored in Microsoft excel format along with physical papers copies.

Future:

Developed interactive website to accept input from different channel including email, phone (text message or voice mail), website, excel and external vendors to accept data and update it on website in near real time. Send alerts and immediate response for critical situations.

Performed system analysis and design

Generate Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)

I am planning to use Microsoft SQL Server Express database and .Net Framework to achieve the same.

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objectives

The main objective of the idea is to reduce the healthcare service delays through enhancing automation.

This would be through creating a channel whereby the facility management and other stakeholders within a region are able to pass information easily and automatically through an application.

The expected outcome of the idea is increased speed by 20 % of service delivery to the assisted living members within a healthcare facility.

The main expected result of the idea is that the community members will easily access healthcare facilities within a short period of time.

This implies that overall management will be more efficient.

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Results

Project Timeline

The project timeline includes processes involved in meeting the technological implementation in healthcare sector.

The use of automation is expected to take about six months prior to its implementation into the healthcare system.

This is mainly for the reason that the technology department need to be well trained on the importance of using the tool and the best way of ensuring its efficiency.

It is also important for the other healthcare providers to be educated on how to use the application for better results.

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