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Consider the following scenario: Progress Healthcare, a local hospital
in South Carolina, recently installed a nurse tracking system. This
Real Time Locating System (RTLS) from Stanley Healthcare is an
expansion of the commonly known Aeroscout, which is used for
asset tracking. The goal is to understand workflow streams and
utilize the data to streamline the workflows through a LEAN event.
Data is captured from the employee badges and sent wirelessly to a
local server and then sent to an online database for business
intelligence analysis and reporting. Progress Healthcare also sends
patient monitoring information to the floor monitoring server and
then to the electronic medical record (EMR). The monitoring data is
also stripped of personal health information (PHI) and sent to the
same Internet server to correlate tracking information with each
room. Understanding staff movement is seen by leadership and
management as efficient. It is also a way to justify chargers and to
validate the level of care a patient receives. Many of the staff nurses
and assistants see it as a distraction and as another time consuming
measure that diminishes patient care.
Write a 350-to-700-word summary in which you address the
following:
-Analyze the impact of using the Internet to communicate consumer
information.
-Assess the impact of organizational research and the use of IT to
collect data.
-Discuss the ethical implications of clinical efficiency research with
monitoring and tracking data.
Use a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed references, not counting the
textbook, that directly support your analysis.