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Date Submitted: 05/05/2011 02:44 PM
Identify what services are available through the current Web portal (e-commerce or e-business)
In today’s times, many businesses are starting to make a Web presence and hospitals are one such business. Some services that Patton-Fuller could make available through a Web Portal are: the ability to subscribe to electronic newsletters, viewing of peoples public information that are currently in the hospital, such as patients’ room numbers, and the ability to purchase hospital uniforms online. Some online services that are available at other hospitals include: the ability to pay bills online, research available positions and fill out applications, and transmit data to doctors from monitoring devices from the comfort of your own home. These services may be used at Patton-Fuller to make things more convenient for patients who owe bills and have mobility limitations, make applying for a job quicker and easier, and allow doctors to receive vital information without requiring a patient to drive all the way to the hospital.
Compare and contrast the services that other hospital Web sites make available.
Sitting in the ER is really a disturbing matter especially if you are stuck there for hour after hour. I think that sitting in the ER with a bunch of people that are sick like is a sign for disaster and can get the people are that there for other reasons other than the flu will most likely end up with the flu in the end. I think that a hospital should create a phone in or internet reservation for the ER if you are not in a life threating condition. I know that this might not go over with people at first but if we just think about the time and agony that people are in while sitting there helpless in the ER when they could be home resting and waiting to go to their reservation. I am not sure that if any hospitals are taking advantage of this yet but I would think that this would be a good bandwagon to jump on. Even if the hospital wants to charge for a...