Information Management

 These projects typically identify specific information and systemic changes that clients need to meet operational or measurement objectives that directly impact operational and clinical cost-effectiveness.  We also identify strategies for gathering and organizing the needed information.  Projects often focus on the impact of information management changes on operations (e.g., patient registration, scheduling of procedures) including both benefits and unintended side effects.		  
           
 
A few of our Recent Studies:
 -> National Infrastructure For Electronic Health Records
 -> Patient Registration, Booking and Registry Project
-> Design of Survey Instruments - Provincial Study of Primary Care Processes  



National Infrastructure For Electronic Health Records

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are increasingly part of our health care system, but access to them remains in the paper based paradigm. What would be the impact of an infrastructure creating a comprehensive EHR system on a national scale -- not as a replacement for local systems but as a central repository for information on patient care of all kinds? This study looks at the economic and social impact of this kind of system for representative groups of patients. Expert reviews of information flow and patient care are compared, before and after creating a comprehensive system. We look at the use of information across the health care system when dealing with a patient episode and the kinds of benefits that would accrue from better access to a wide range of reliable information. Concerns of data integrity and privacy are also part of the discussion. Expert opinion establishes both the economic value and the quality of care benefits that are likely to follow from this kind of system.

Patient Registration, Booking and Registry Project

The Brondesbury Group produced a report, documenting their findings of the Registration, Booking and Bed Registry environment review in a large multi-site community hospital. The report included suggested recommendations for improvement and supporting business cases as well as implementation plans.
The objective of this project was to gain a complete and thorough understanding of the processes and workflows within the Registration, Booking, and Bed Registry environments, such that the efficiencies and inefficiencies were clearly understood and documented. The review involved in-depth analysis of staff and process at both the larger facilities and a sample of community based clinics. Click here to see a Brief Overview.

Design of Survey Instruments – Provincial Study of Primary Care Processes

In order to effectively move primary care record-keeping to an electronic environment, one needs to understand the critical information flows. As part of a larger study for a provincial government, we created survey instruments to track communications flows related to primary care. The instruments identified the source and destination of communications, their nature, the information conveyed and the priority level of information exchanged. Instruments were designed to identify both frequency and importance of information, so that a system geared to both considerations could be developed.
 		  

 

 

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