Healthcare Project Summaries
Einstein
Hospital
C. Everett Koop Institute
National Institutes of Health
| Cost
reduction... Access to quality care... privacy and security
issues surrounding medical information... grants... Issues
like these are radically changing the health care industry
and relationships between insurers, hospitals, pharmaceutical
companies, health care providers, and consumers. DACOM is
playing a vital role in helping the community make this transformation
work to the advantage of everyone involved. |
Einstein
Hospital
- Created an enterprise activity model integrating IS functional areas
Working
with The Association Software Company (TASC) and the senior management
at Einstein Hospital, DACOM led the systems modernization program
to determine a vision for the future and to identify redundancies
in the current information database. DACOM facilitated the business
engineering team in the development of an enterprise activity model
covering functional areas including the surgical department, materials
management, patient flow, billing and nursing requirements management.
The team went on to build an activity model representing a 'vision'
of where hospitals will be in the future together with their information
systems requirements.
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C.
Everett Koop Institute
- Helping harness the emerging National Information Infrastructure to improve the quality of healthcare services and reduce cost
DACOM assisted
the C. Everett Koop Institute, headed by the former Surgeon General
Dr. Everett Koop, in the establishment of a Health Informatics Initiative
(HII). Under this initiative DACOM joined forces with a coalition
of leading technology providers, such as AT&T and ORACLE, and
business engineering specialists to provide enhanced business engineering
methods and tools for the healthcare industry. An objective of the
initiative was to facilitate the exploitation of the emerging National
Information Infrastructure to improve the quality of healthcare services
and reduce costs.
The Health Informatics Initiative has broad impact within the healthcare
industry including areas such as Administrative Information Systems,
Educational Information Systems, Clinical Information Systems, Telemedicine,
Personal Health Information Systems, Population Databases and System
Coordination, and Community Networks. The cost of healthcare has grown
to $1 trillion, representing 12 to 14 percent of the Gross Domestic
Product (GDP). Studies estimate that telecommunications and information
technology could easily reduce national healthcare costs by more than
$36 billion per year.
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National
Institute of Health
- Helping NIH reduce the grants award time by over 60%
The NIH
Grants Administration Project objective is to define and develop a
WorkNet™ to automate the
process of receiving and reviewing grant applications. The current
processes are almost entirely manual, with significant bottlenecks
resulting from these manual processes.
Phase I of III began in August 1999, and resulted in a definition
of the current processes through activity models and data models.
Phase I also produced a simulation model that identified and quantified
the bottlenecks in the current process. Phase II of the project began
in March 2000. The objective of Phase II is to define the requirements
for an automated WorkNet to automate as much of the process as is
feasible using web technology. When completed the NIH Grants Administration
WorkNet will encompass the following elements:
- Workflow management,
- Automated document management,
- Collaborative document review, and
- Automated scoring of applications.
It is expected that use of the Grants Administration WorkNet will
result in a reduction in the time to award grants by over 60%.
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