Attn: Dr. Sidney part 2
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capstone_final.pptxSWOT Analysis
| Strengths Water raft teams that collected stranded residents Tent clinics set up by doctors and nurses Animal rescue organizations Health IT experts The American Red Cross | Weaknesses Hurricane Rita approaching 25 days later Breakdown in emergency services No food and water for evacuees Lack of sanitation and law enforcement | Opportunities 150 public and private organizations would provide data and support for Katrina health Little effort previously put in reconstructing people’s personal health records | Threats Difficulty and near impossibility of tracking people’s medical records during an emergency. Lack of comprehensive Electronic Health Records for the victims |
| Internal Organizational Features | External Environmental (Market) Factors |
Process Decision Program (PDP) Chart
| Objective |
| Actions |
| Steps |
| What if’s |
| Possible Counter-measures |
| To get electronic health records of evacuees so as to offer them medical attention and new prescription. Temporary shelter provision. |
| Authorized pharmacists and doctors come together to coordinate healthcare |
| Surrounding states to offer temporary shelter |
| Harnessing IT in the emergency and provision of medical care |
| Network failure due to storm e.g. WAN |
| EHR of some patients are not found |
| Counter measure A |
Force Field Analysis To safely evacuate, provide shelter and attend give medical attention to Katrina victims
| Forces that facilitate achieving this (increase these) | Factors that impede achieving this (decrease these) |
| American Red Cross is willing to help doctors pharmacists and nurses to get some of the EHRs they require. Veterans Health Administration wants to give all information it has on veterans. Daily 1:00 p.m. conference calls that will allow forward movement of the project, keep participants informed of the progress and problems. Work group establishment led by individuals in the public and private sector Heads of several companies that would provide pharmacy data knew each other and had worked together on an earlier Markle Foundation project | The occurrence of hurricane Rita 25 days after Hurricane Katrina causes strain on resources Lack of records of some patients may strain the rescue process. Storm and heavy winds may cause LAN and WAN to fail. Limited timeliness of data that was to be retrieved. Language barrier in the case of foreign casualties that had visited Katrina. A subsequent lack of EHRs for the foreigners e.g. tourists Possible shortage of some types of drugs such as NorvatisTM |
