Healthcare system analysis

As health systems errors have grown; we got more in need to find appropriated solutions. Moreover; depending on how far these errors been understandable that it determines efficient nature of them later. And that undoubtedly move our thoughts to find remarkable unique ones. If we are gathering briefly former mentioned steps we call them ‘’Analysis’. There are many articles talking about systems analysis and how it might be work with different kind of problems and errors. Most of them focusing on the system solutions for errors give complicated work problems, but here would like to focus on nature of errors that give us strong backbone about solutions finding journey. The process of working system analysis is not simple ever as some imagine, months ongoing effort daily with certain system segment only in order to reach proper error identification but the good news that this job has not ever done individually, is a team job.  

But the real question is the process of analysis really necessary, in other meaning; that carries valuable significance to the future system performance and its quality. We could say system without analysis means; no further development and work error corrections. In general; System analysis yields an understanding how system works and how different system elements interact. Also used to modify, adapt, redesign and comfort the working elements with additional needs and demands. The process of the analysis for work system determines the human factors and human engineering tools usable, which if followed; we would produce working system devoid of numerous errors and human mistakes. In conventional approach of system was focusing more on the working elements and operation unites related to that elements neglected the behavior of humankind with the system and human associated factors. 

Recently; found most of IT produced errors owned far or soon, roots to human factor engineering. That embarrasses human much and open a lot of questions, how humankind do well with machines, would be discuss in coming posts. The role of analysis process is much significant to find new solutions, reduce risk, identify new system objects, leading to good design and exaggerate; safety, quality, performance of the system. There are steps followed in process of system analysis briefly reviewed:

Step 1: it is the process of identify system segment and declare the involved portion which serve an analysis team to determine the proper elements as physician order , document administration, prescription platform.

Step 2: drawing preliminary system map that firstly; facilitate the work with different system elements and create represented itinerary with proper identified objects. This map has say more details such as system working segment, sort of technologies used, environmental factors and human influences on execution.

Step 3: representation of the team members who carry out the analysis process. Work team representation is essence of the analysis examination, monitoring and assessment.

Step 4: Initial scan of the systems, after determining involved segments of work should be analyzed. Then each of them scanned carefully for further error identification and some other technical assessments.

Step 5:  involved segment should be enclosed by boundaries, whether hierarchical, temporary and spatial boundaries would isolate the site of work away from rest of system components to avoid more errors.

Step 6: performance determination of each system elements to make proper scan of all components. the determination carries out in qualitative and quantitative methodologies make sense to distinguish error categories of problematic mistake.

Step 7: The team should implements formal data collection to revise and update the work system map according to current involved errors through defining the work performance baseline regularly.

Step 8: the team can begin to analyze the collected data and find out the weakness, variances and previous of events could cause system fail. The analysis period can extend for months or years in certain cases and the team should be more patient in this step; it considered crucial point of analysis process.

Step 9: one the failure causes become clear and declared including IT errors or/and human produced, the 2^nd step is planning for solutions what is called Hazard control plan that will serve team to be more focused on certain points of weakness and prevent confusion.

Step 10: the innovative solutions should be designed and tested separately to each work segment, performance sustainability is most important here and after testing good effective solutions that would implemented and conjugated with other system elements.

The process of system analysis is not light topic of discussions and easily can find full books talking in details but I hope this hint about healthcare system analysis process give you even the main concepts about analysis and procedures.

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