ABSTRACT
To transform the birth certificate process, a total quality management approach was adopted by San Jose Medical Center. An innovative solution using technology resulted in dramatic gains in productivity. The case study summarizes the methodology used to achieve measurable performance improvement. This reengineering demonstration reveals the positive results achievable when the strengths of staff skills, environment, and procedures are maximized.
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Birth Certificates , Efficiency, Organizational , Medical Records Department, Hospital/standards , Total Quality Management/organization & administration , California , Delivery Rooms/organization & administration , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Interdepartmental Relations , Microcomputers , Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital/organization & administration , Systems Analysis , Time ManagementABSTRACT
Imaging technology creates efficiencies in medical record processing that can positively affect a hospital's bottom line by improving productivity, reducing labor costs, and generating income through accelerated accounts receivable operations and billable copying and correspondence functions.
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Medical Records Department, Hospital/organization & administration , Medical Records Systems, Computerized/economics , Accounts Payable and Receivable , California , Correspondence as Topic , Cost-Benefit Analysis , Efficiency , Electronic Data Processing/economics , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Investments/economics , Medical Records Department, Hospital/economics , Personnel Staffing and Scheduling/economics , Workforce , WorkloadABSTRACT
The largest benefit of having a cardiac registry is quality. Everyone from patients, payers, physicians, and the public wants to know your quality...many hospitals are unprepared to answer these questions.
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Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology , Computer Communication Networks , Registries/classification , Cardiology/economics , Cardiovascular Diseases/therapy , Humans , Medical Records Systems, Computerized/instrumentation , Outcome Assessment, Health Care/organization & administration , United States/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Software which permits an IBM AT and two IBM Professional Graphics Displays to be used to display high-quality three-dimensional space-filling stereoscopic images of macromolecules is described. Stereo image pairs generated on two screens are visually fused using a simple mirror system to provide binocular depth perception. Images are colored to identify atomic type, residue type, charge or hydrophobicity according to user-specified codes and can be rotated and rescaled. Macromolecules containing over 16,000 atoms can be rapidly drawn using Brookhaven Protein Data Bank or user-supplied coordinates.