CASE 3-14 •Decision on System Replacement 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 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 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 systems in operation and liked them both. References were checked on both systems. The references for System Patient Tracking were glowing. All of them said that the 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 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. Choose which system you would select. 2. Justify your choice.
Complete Case 3-14 System Replacement in your case study book. You must clearly justify your choice. At least two paragraphs (
