Assignment 3: Patient Database for Florida MIS Radiology

HIM 6667 Foundation in Management Information Systems
Assignment 3
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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:
• Computerized Tomography scans
• Nuclear medicine
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Ultrasound
• X-Ray and Mammography
• Radiography and Fluoroscopy
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:
• Provide highest quality advanced imaging services
• Provide outstanding patient care and service
• Create strategic alliances on national and regional level
• Invest in IT for image delivery
• Improve visibility of the department
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 week we will address the following topic: