Information Systems (IS) Strategic Plan



Information Systems (IS) Strategic Plan

Introduction

Many hospitals in United States providing services of emergency, outpatient, inpatient, laboratory, dental, prevention programs and community programs, covering essentially the urban and rural population of the municipality. Hospital managers are aware of taking the information system as a valuable resource to human resources, technical and financial analysis. In this institution has not been conducted strategic planning information system, so the decisions thereon have not had an overview of the problem, have not matched a strategic vision and does not consider other aspects comprehensively (Saini, 1999). Therefore this paper aims to discusses various issues and benefits of implementing the IS strategic plan for Happy Valley hospital by discussing the major project over the span of two and five years.

Organization Strategy

The introduction of the technology for handling the information has been making to solve specific problems in some areas of the Hospital in United States and has not corresponded to a study of real information needs and global, hospital executives are aware of the need to conduct a study to systematize processes without losing sight of the organization as a whole and establish a long-term directionality for the systems area. The strategic planning of information systems at Happy Valley Hospital is important because besides increasing productivity and avoid concentrating organizations the development of the functional areas in a few systems, solves the problem of taking separate hardware and software, solves the divorce between systematization plans and plans of the organization, as well solves the difficulties that have to understand the information system of the organization (Rainer, et.al, 2009).

With the great interest that the hospital management has discussed the development of this plan may have projects that are supported chosen from all areas of the company and the recommendations adopted raised at work. The work is of great interest to the person involved as well as applying a basic concept for the management of information systems such as strategic planning, will give an overview of an information system real strengths and weaknesses and the problems inherent in strategic development of the system should also propose alternatives strategic business needs in studio, facing problems that as computer systems administrator continually face (Rodrigues, 2010).

SWOT Analysis

Strengths

288 bed hospital

44 bed LTC

12 family birthing suites

Nursing home with 100 beds

Accredited by JCAHO

Own homecare agency

Recently finished system upgrades for ER

Weaknesses

Hospital does not currently have EMR

Older patients live over an hour away

Upgrade of computer systems for entire hospital.

40% of staff is computer literate (making over 1/2 computer illiterate).

Doctors reluctant to use system due to "feel it is time consuming and taking them away from patient care"

Current computer system is used for clinical applications and not sharing of patient files

Opportunities

Purchase of Siemens Enterprise-wide systems for hospitals

Implementing EMR throughout hospital

Center of excellence in heart surgery / build a cardiac catheterization unit

Assisted living facility

Starting telemedicine service in conjunction with home care agency

Establish a regional health information organization (healthcare data and files shared electronically)

Threats

Community Medical Center (CMC), 1 mile away

General Hospital, 10 ...