Mobilephone Cardiac Health Patient Application

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A large hospital providing high caliber services must still be concerned with patient relationships. The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) provides ideas on how to improve the patient-provider or patient-health care facility relationship, through the use of technology. The Health Information Management Systems Society (HiMSS) is an organization focused on improved health care outcomes, through the use of technology. The problem faced by the large hospital, is connecting patients to the facility and to necessary health information and services, using mobile technology solutions. The problem is further exacerbated by physicians, who have different ideas about how mobile solutions should function or what they should look like.

The strategic initiative proposed is a mobile cardiac diagnostic application, which links patient cardiac health directly to specialists responsible for diagnosing and treating cardiac patients. The initiative is based on the demographics of patients and the high incidence of cardiac disease among the patient population served. While funding is readily available for the project, every IT initiative will have capabilities and limitations. The challenge is deciding what those limitations are and developing a solution that will bring about the most positive change. It is not expected that all physicians or patients will be completely satisfied with the application. However, it is the goal of the project, to meet some of the most pressing issues and challenges faced by the stakeholder groups.

In order to develop long term and short term objectives, a needs assessment must be conducted. The needs assessment serves important functions of understanding the extent of the problem, gathering data on the services available to the target population, and identifying gaps in service within the target population (Community Resource Exchange, 2010). Assuming the ...