Transcript A Portal to Improved Patient Care

Stavropol state medical academy
Department of asu
Uses of microsoft office for a doctor
Harshdeep Tyagi
Group: 514
Why the doctors need Microsoft
office
In an era of digital technology, when automation of routine
tasks drives productivity and information is traded at lightning
speed, one industry still generates more than 60 million pages
of paperwork a day.
That may not sound like the business model of an industry
that constantly redefines itself, making things once thought
miraculous routine. But buried under all that paper is the U.S.
healthcare sector and its key participants: doctors, nurses,
drug researchers, insurance providers and, of course,
patients.
A Portal to Improved Patient Care
The Microsoft Office System, coupled with add-ons provided
by partners, delivers a portal solution that can provide
clinicians and researchers instant access to the information
they need, including the latest medical journal articles, drug
reference information and patient handouts.
A Portal to Improved Patient Care
Using the Microsoft Office OneNote application, a doctor or
nurse may record notes on a notebook or Tablet PC, by
keyboard, handwriting, or using audio or video. The notes are
stored centrally and can be found and shared easily.
Healthcare professionals are immediately presented with a
"Research" tabbed screen that allows them to retrieve
information stored on the machine, from the institution's
intranet or from the Internet.
A Portal to Improved Patient Care
Clinicians and researchers also have instant access to more
than 900 leading medical and health journals in over 100
medical specialties through an optional feature offered by
Microsoft partner Ovid Technologies. If a doctor is writing a
patient note about a herniated disk, he or she simply
highlights and clicks to initiate a search of current articles.
A Portal to Improved Patient Care
Productivity and collaboration are also improved through the
use of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server, which
enhances the features and functionality of the new Microsoft
Office System. This technology, which requires Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 in combination with Microsoft Office
System, empowers healthcare and pharmaceutical
professionals to create shared workspaces from within any
Microsoft Office application. Meetings may be scheduled and
Collaboration Partners
Part of what makes the Microsoft Office System a powerful solution
are the range of innovative add-on features developed in conjunction
with a number of industry partners.
"We see the Microsoft Office System as a platform for innovation, and
our partner add-ons enhance the entire spectrum of what we are
striving to deliver to the healthcare industry,".
Children's Hospital
Earlier this month, Children's Hospital in Seattle became the first to
implement a pilot program of the new Microsoft Office System in a
healthcare environment. The initial phase of the pilot is a four-week
program in the pediatric intensive care unit and infant intensive care
unit. The second phase of the pilot will be a four-week program in two
of the hospital's medical units, according to Thomas McGee,
Infrastructure Program Manager at Children's Hospital.
Healthcare without Boundaries
In designing technology tools for the healthcare industry using the
Microsoft Office System, the goals were to connect people, information
and business processes.
"In the current healthcare system, with all its inefficiencies,
redundancies and paperwork, the patients are paying the price. They're
not getting the treatment they need fast enough and they're not getting
the high-quality care they want or that healthcare professionals want to
deliver.“
The Microsoft Office System can help the healthcare industry to
function more efficiently and cost-effectively.
CONCLUSION
If a clinician spends less time pushing paper and is free to treat more
patients; if tired doctors at the end of a long shift in a busy trauma
center can access the information they need to make the right diagnosis
instead of the wrong medical decision; if drug researchers can speed the
clinical trial process and get new breakthrough compounds to the
market faster, that is healthcare without boundaries. Lives will be saved,
symptoms relieved, and diseases cured. That is our vision, and soon it
will be a reality.