Island Palms General Hospital has an existing admission discharge transfer (ADT)/MPI system that was implemented 20 years ago

Island Palms General Hospital has an existing admission discharge transfer (ADT)/MPI system that was implemented 20 years ago. It was developed-in house. By now, all of the original programmers have resigned or retired. It is cumbersome to manage and to update to meet the current needs of the hospital. Therefore, the decision has been made to purchase a new ADT/MPI system.

An RFP was sent out to two vendors – System Patient Management, Inc., and System Patient Tracking, Inc. Key portions of the RFP have been summarized to allow for easy comparison. The responses to the functional requirements have also been provided for review.

Demonstrations were conducted at the hospital and both information systems looked good. The MPI module is preferred on System Patient Management, and the ADT system is preferred on System Patient Tracking: however, both systems were received favorably. The committee went to see both MPIs in operation and liked them both. References were checked on both information systems. The references for System Patient Tracking were glowing. All of them said that the Patient Tracking system was good and the people were great to work with because they wanted their new company to succeed and to grow. The references on System Patient Management were excellent, too. The only negative about System Patient Management was that the company was too large and was sometimes slow to respond to what the company saw as minor problems.

The next release of System Patient Tracking is due out in six months and that of System Patient Management is due out in eight months. You expect to implement your information system in one year. The Committee has used Tables 3-3 through 3-5 to summarize and compare the information that was gathered and is now ready to vote on which system to purchase.

1. Identify the best information system for Island Palms General Hospital.

2. Justify your choice.