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Early Information Access To Alleviate Emergency Department Congestion, Anjee Gorkhali Jul 2019

Early Information Access To Alleviate Emergency Department Congestion, Anjee Gorkhali

Theses and Dissertations in Business Administration

Alleviating Emergency Department (ED) congestion results in shorter hospital stay which not only reduces the cost of medical procedure but also increase the hospital performance. Length of patient stay is used to determine the hospital performance. Organization Information Processing (OIPT) Theory is used to explain the impact of information access and availability on the information processing need and ability of a hospital. Technical devices such as RFID that works as “Auto Identification tags” is suggested to increase the information availability as well as the information processing capability of the hospitals. This study suggests that the OIPT needs to be further …