Overview
Case study – Florida MIS Radiology (continued – new information in italics)
Florida MIS Radiology is a large imaging department located in Tampa, Florida
providing diagnostic imaging services in two main sites. The care team consists
of 3 Radiologists, 4 nurses, 4 technologists, and 4 administrative specialists.
Florida MIS Radiology has the following imaging capabilities:
Florida MIS Radiology’s mission is “to advance the knowledge and practice of
diagnostic imaging by meeting the clinical needs of the patients we serve”, and
its vision is “to provide high quality, patient centric diagnostic imaging services to
patients in the region and expand our sites to better serve our community”. The
department has the following goals:
Florida MIS Radiology’s leadership is considering investing on information
systems and it needs your assistance.
While Florida MIS Radiology’s leadership understands the benefits of information
systems, they are still hesitant to invest. Your thought is to demonstrate how a
trivial scheduling system would benefit the department. To that end, you decide
to create a proof-of-concept database to be operated by administrative staff,
nurses, and radiologists. Such database would significantly speed up several
business processes and solve issues related to paper based medical records.
This is the information of the Data Base I’ve created, so you have an Idea:
Patient
PatientID(autonumber)
FirstName (Short text)
MiddleName (Short text)
LastName (Short text)
Address (Short text)
Clinician
ClinicianID (autonumber)
ClinicianFirstName (Short text)
ClinicianMiddleName (Short
text)
ClinicianLastName (Short text)
PatientVisit
PatientVisitID (autonumber)
PatientID (Number)
ClinicianID (Number)
VisitDate (date)
Procedure (short text)
Report (short text)
Appointment
AppointmentID (autonumber)
PatientID (Number)
Procedure (short text)
Date (date)
Prepare a report (at least 600 words) to explain how this database would
be used to schedule a visit, record patient data, and create reports. Make
sure to indicate who will be entering the data at each stage. Discuss 3
benefits to the department due to the use of the database.
At least3 references.
Not all information is correct or equally important. It is advisable to use the
following ranking of evidence when performing your research:
1. Peer reviewed articles and Textbooks
2. Government portals (e.g. .gov websites)
3. News reports/Blogs/websites