Beyond the Printed Inventory Tag and Patient Wristband
Case Study (2). Prepare a written answer to this situation and support your answer with sound reasoning. Your answer should include at a minimum, how you will consider this proposal, what parts of the organization would be affected, who are the stakeholders in the question, and what are the pros and cons of the recommendation. Your answer should be in a word document of two to three pages in length.
Beyond the Printed Inventory Tag and Patient Wristband
The director of IT in your multi-site health organization has come to you as CEO imploring you to back his desire to “revolutionize” resource and patient tracking, thereby reducing the possibility of error and associated legal liability. He wants to move from the standard wristband patient ID to RFID chips, placed on each patient at the time of admission. He also wants all medical resources to be tagged and tracked with RFID chips. He says there is the potential for implanting the chips in patients, but that this is still controversial. How would you proceed to give appropriate consideration to this proposal?