Question

Drawing from your own experience, select a health care process used at your place of work or in your interaction with a health care organization that you would like to see improved.  Explain why you picked that process.

2. Imagine that a system is to be implemented (or an existing system improved) to make that process better, and identify five (5) requirements that the system would need to satisfy. Each requirement is one sentence in length and addresses one thing the system must do. Here we are interested in "functional requirements" – the activities the system must perform to support the identified process. We are not including "nonfunctional requirements"   that include how the system would perform.

3. Review (and re-write if necessary) the 5 requirements statements to ensure they meet the "SMART" criteria.

Answer 1

Healthcare processes are of 5 types and constitute the following.

1. Preventive aspect

2. Screening

3. Diagnosing

4. Treating

5. End of life care

You may pick any one of these.

If one were to generalize healthcare trends and pick from the most common healthcare processes utilized around the world, it may be concluded that most healthcare organizations place a comparatively lesser emphasis on the Prevention model of the healthcare processes. This, therefore, may be a suitable choice for deliberations to improve its utility.

Requirements that would improve the Prevention process could be:

1. Usage of mass media and social media in propagating healthy living ideas.

2. Dedicated lifestyle improvement clinics

3. Collaborating with government and non government organizations to identify vulnerable groups and providing such groups with assistance in improving and hence maintaining health standards

4. Extensive outreach programs providing education on inexpensive ways to eat healthy.

5. Initiating educational programs on nutrition and dietics, lifestyle management, self motivation, career guidance, plant based and alternative medicine.

6. Involvement of local popular figures in promoting healthy lifestyle ideas.

7. Organizing youth-centric educational activities on a quarterly or annual basis.

8. Seminars involving parents where discussions and activities focusing on healthy upbringing of children is emphasized upon.