The Department of Physical therapy at King Abdullah’s Hospital have a need for an upgrade to their existing information
Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 2:49 pm
The Department of Physical therapy at King Abdullah’s Hospital
have a need for an upgrade to their existing information system to
make use of the new inventions and technology in the field. Mr.
Fahad is the IT manager at the hospital, and he assigned the new
project to Mr. Salem which will be the project manager of the new
proposed system. Mr. Salem immediately conducted several meetings
with the analysts at the IT department to gather information,
discuss and assign tasks and responsibilities and to develop a plan
for the project. The new system is to be called Physical Therapy
Centralized Application Service (PTCAS). It should include several
needed functions that will help the staff as well as management.
After meeting the health workers at the department, Mr. Salem and
his team have reached the following conclusions:
the new system should allow the physio therapist to retrieve
the full history of the patient and display it in one screen with
the ability to expand any section to see further details. Upon
examining the patient, the system should record the details of each
visit of the patient which include current and previous treatment
plans, his/her vital signs (heart rate etc.) and the physio
therapist conducting the examination. During each visit, if it was
the first session then the physio therapist will write a S.O.A.P
note using the system and will write a progression note otherwise.
Writing the S.O.A.P note goes as follows: first the therapist will
enter his ID, then the system will show the information of the
current patient (according to the time of appointments) such as
his/her age, occupation, and any history of injuries. Then the
therapist will examine the patient and enter his/her assessment
into the system, the therapist will enter the assessment of
multiple parts of the body first (such as upper/lower body) then
will enter detailed information about the chief complaint of the
patient such as pain description, pain location, patterns that make
pain worse, stiffness level of affected muscle. Then the system
will provide a suggestion treatment plans, and the therapist could
choose a pre-defined treatment plan or could enter a new
one.
writing a progression note goes as follows: the therapist will
enter his/her ID, then the system will show the S.O.A.P note along
with the patient’s history. then the therapist will examine the
chief complaint of the patient and enter his/her assessment into
the system (including the aforementioned details). Then the
therapist will make adjustment to the treatment plan if necessary.
Then the system will show the full history and the treatment plan,
so that the therapist can inform the patient.
The system also should allow the physio therapists to create and
update treatment plans for the patients. A physio therapist could
create many different treatment plans and a patient could only have
one plan at a time. When creating a treatment plan, the physio
therapist has the option to include an experimental new treatment
plan for the patient which will require the patients consent (done
electronically through the system). A treatment plan for a patient
includes details such as required sessions, effected area/body
part, current diagnosis and prescriptions.
The system should also help with the scheduling of work by
providing the ability for managers to create schedules for the
physio therapists, it should help make the department more
efficient by organizing and dividing the workload. Each physio
therapist has an assigned schedule, which the system should keep
track of the hours worked for each therapist and if a worker has
clocked more than the assigned schedule states, the manager will be
notified. Also, each month, the department has an assessment
meeting, and the managers need a workload report before the meeting
to help them with the assessment.
For the narrative above, develop the following
diagrams:
have a need for an upgrade to their existing information system to
make use of the new inventions and technology in the field. Mr.
Fahad is the IT manager at the hospital, and he assigned the new
project to Mr. Salem which will be the project manager of the new
proposed system. Mr. Salem immediately conducted several meetings
with the analysts at the IT department to gather information,
discuss and assign tasks and responsibilities and to develop a plan
for the project. The new system is to be called Physical Therapy
Centralized Application Service (PTCAS). It should include several
needed functions that will help the staff as well as management.
After meeting the health workers at the department, Mr. Salem and
his team have reached the following conclusions:
the new system should allow the physio therapist to retrieve
the full history of the patient and display it in one screen with
the ability to expand any section to see further details. Upon
examining the patient, the system should record the details of each
visit of the patient which include current and previous treatment
plans, his/her vital signs (heart rate etc.) and the physio
therapist conducting the examination. During each visit, if it was
the first session then the physio therapist will write a S.O.A.P
note using the system and will write a progression note otherwise.
Writing the S.O.A.P note goes as follows: first the therapist will
enter his ID, then the system will show the information of the
current patient (according to the time of appointments) such as
his/her age, occupation, and any history of injuries. Then the
therapist will examine the patient and enter his/her assessment
into the system, the therapist will enter the assessment of
multiple parts of the body first (such as upper/lower body) then
will enter detailed information about the chief complaint of the
patient such as pain description, pain location, patterns that make
pain worse, stiffness level of affected muscle. Then the system
will provide a suggestion treatment plans, and the therapist could
choose a pre-defined treatment plan or could enter a new
one.
writing a progression note goes as follows: the therapist will
enter his/her ID, then the system will show the S.O.A.P note along
with the patient’s history. then the therapist will examine the
chief complaint of the patient and enter his/her assessment into
the system (including the aforementioned details). Then the
therapist will make adjustment to the treatment plan if necessary.
Then the system will show the full history and the treatment plan,
so that the therapist can inform the patient.
The system also should allow the physio therapists to create and
update treatment plans for the patients. A physio therapist could
create many different treatment plans and a patient could only have
one plan at a time. When creating a treatment plan, the physio
therapist has the option to include an experimental new treatment
plan for the patient which will require the patients consent (done
electronically through the system). A treatment plan for a patient
includes details such as required sessions, effected area/body
part, current diagnosis and prescriptions.
The system should also help with the scheduling of work by
providing the ability for managers to create schedules for the
physio therapists, it should help make the department more
efficient by organizing and dividing the workload. Each physio
therapist has an assigned schedule, which the system should keep
track of the hours worked for each therapist and if a worker has
clocked more than the assigned schedule states, the manager will be
notified. Also, each month, the department has an assessment
meeting, and the managers need a workload report before the meeting
to help them with the assessment.
For the narrative above, develop the following
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