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.
Your proof-of-concept database was successful, and the leadership has
approved the information system. However, intrigued by current research on
social determinants of health, they want to augment the original design to capture
data on these determinants.
Research and prepare a report identifying the social determinants of health
Florida MIS Radiology should collect from its patients. For each data point,
explain why it is needed and how it will assist Florida MIS Radiology achieve its
strategies. The min word count requirement for this report is 600 words. Cite your
sources and justify your claims. At least three references.