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Capella University
NURS-FPX 6416 Managing the Nursing Informatics Life Cycle
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Technology Needs Assessment Summary and Implementation Plan
Healthcare technology plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality and efficacy of medical treatments, significantly impacting hospitals’ financial performance (Anderson & Casadei, 2021). This analysis focuses on change management strategies, summarizes essential information system changes, reports the outcomes of a needs assessment meeting, and provides a comprehensive implementation plan for project management, including specific objectives, measurable progress indicators, key stakeholders, and a timeline.
Patient Safety and Healthcare Outcome Benefits
The value of remote patient monitoring is evident within the context of heart failure. With approximately 5.8 million individuals affected in the United States, heart failure poses challenges such as high hospitalization, readmission, mortality rates, and healthcare costs (Ong et al., 2018). Remote patient monitoring technologies offer cost-effective solutions for addressing financial sustainability concerns and enhancing patient acceptance of home-based care (Ong et al., 2018). Patient portals also enable communication between patients and healthcare providers, information exchange, and trust-building between appointments (Lee & Holland-Hall, 2021).
Changes to Organizational Information Systems
A needs assessment meeting identified challenges within Vila Health’s existing information system, particularly in post-discharge monitoring for patients with diabetes. The adoption of remote patient monitoring technology addresses these concerns, benefiting both patients and nurses. Patient portals facilitate communication with healthcare providers, appointment scheduling, and access to medical history and prescriptions remotely.
Comprehensive Project Management Implementation Plan
Goals and Milestones
As the project manager overseeing Vila Health’s information system overhaul, key objectives include the implementation of remote patient monitoring equipment and user-friendly patient portals. These technologies aim to improve post-discharge patient monitoring, leading to increased revenue, reduced staff burden, enhanced patient engagement, and improved health outcomes through patient portal utilization.
Process, Stakeholders, and Timeline
Stakeholders such as the IT department, nurse informaticists, Vila Health administration, nurses, and other healthcare staff will play pivotal roles in the rollout of remote patient monitoring and patient portals. The integration of these technologies, along with staff training, may take up to six months for the IT department to complete. Nurse informaticists will serve as intermediaries between nurses, doctors, and the IT department. After three months of training, a trial period will commence, educating patients on remote patient monitoring and patient portal usage.
Relevant Change Management Strategies
The adoption of Kurt Lewin’s three-stage change model, comprising the unfreeze, change, and refreeze phases, will facilitate the technological transition (Hussain et al., 2018). Stakeholders must be aligned with the technology transformation proposal initially. Subsequently, the new system will be implemented, followed by organizational refreezing to ensure continued utilization.
Conclusion
The integration of patient portals and remote patient monitoring enhances access to high-quality, cost-efficient medical treatment, streamlining and standardizing healthcare delivery. Collaboration with specialists and the incorporation of innovative technologies have made remote monitoring of chronic patients more effective, offering benefits such as increased patient satisfaction, engagement, and communication.
NURS FPX 6416 Assessment 2 Technology Needs Assessment Summary and Implementation Plan
References
Anderson, M., & Casadei, B. (2021). Health information technology and digital innovation for national learning health and care systems. The Lancet Digital Health, 3(6), e383–e396. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(21)00005-400005-4)
Hussain, S. T., Lei, S., Akram, T., Haider, M. J., Hussain, S. H., & Ali, M. (2018). Kurt Lewin’s change model: A critical review of the role of leadership and employee involvement in organizational change. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 3(3), 123–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2016.07.002
Lee, J. A., & Holland-Hall, C. (2021). Patient portals for the adolescent and young adult population: Benefits, risks and guidance for use. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 51(11), 101101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cppeds.2021.101101
NURS FPX 6416 Assessment 2 Technology Needs Assessment Summary and Implementation Plan
Ong, M. K., Romano, P. S., Edgington, S., Aronow, H. U., Auerbach, A. D., Black, J. T., Marco, T. D., Escarce, J. J., Evangelista, L. S., Hanna, B., Ganiats, T. G., Greenberg, B. H., Greenfield, S., Kaplan, S. H., Kimchi, A., Liu, H., Lombardo, D., Mangione, C. M., Sadeghi, B., & Sadeghi, B. (2018). Effectiveness of Remote Patient monitoring after discharge of hospitalized patients with heart failure: The better effectiveness after Transition–Heart Failure (BEAT-HF) Randomized clinical trial. JAMA Internal Medicine, 176(3), 310–318. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.771