Subject : IT Management Assignment : Imperative of IT in an industry In-charge : Mr.

Ullas Sharma Student : Amit Puri | BLP 013

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Targeted Industry & Challenges

The target industry is The Health Care Sector in India. This industry is facing several challenges, out of which we will talk about the ones which can be corrected or attended to by introduction of Information Technology Management.
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There is no centralized repository of patients' records There are no records of the diseases which are being administered There is a gap between the different formats of prescriptions and the reports which are being generated Being such a vast country and being highly dense at the same, gives it an opportunity to develop a Amit Puri of problems and an region based classification | Assignment | IT Management | Nov 2011 come up with an interactive online counseling

IT Solution to problem 01
> There is no centralized repository of patients' records
> All the patients information will be entered in the local servers which will then be directed to the Regional Data Data Marts Marts > These records can then be retrieved by the doctor while curing the patient. He can now understand what can the possible causes of the disease with respect to the demographics or family history or which prescription could have gone wrong. Also, this can be at any hour of the day, irrespective of the location of the clinic or medical facility.

Patient Health Record

Data Marts

(Dimensionally Modeled | Star-Schema)

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IT Solution to problem 02
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> There are no records of the diseases which are being administered The patients records will be stored in the local medical facilities servers Then they will then be collated at the Centralized Data Warehouse From the DWH the information can be fed to a B.I. Tool and reports can developed which will can give information about:
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Which are the prevalent diseases in an area/occupation/life-style Which are the chronic problems to the people of a certain age Which are the possible symptoms which lead to a particular type of a problem Which other ailments can be cured or prevented when curing a particular ailment Which medicines or procedures are not working well or Amit Puri | Assignment | IT Management | Nov 2011 are causing a reverse/adverse affect

IT Solution to problem 03
> different formats of prescriptions and reports

> Medical Claims > Medical Research Journals & Papers standardization of data format upport & Ambulatory Services > Medical References

E.D. I.
Patients

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> Medical Claims > Medical References > Personal Health Record Amit Puri | Assignment | IT Management | Nov 2011

IT Solution to problem 04
> interactive online counseling for a developing an partially educated population then the users will be trained about the system, when they go there to receive medical services based on the reports produced by BI tools ref. Sol 02 ref. Sol 03 > Sol 04 users / patients can then use this facility once the support is up and running and all the functions are able to use the info. shared once processed under E.D.I. with due course of time people will be able to access their info from various locations and get treated based on best procedures. time >

the initial stage will cater to the information collection for the support ref. Sol 01

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