Question:
Purpose:
Develop a decision support system to support a quality of care improvement initiative within a hospital.
Description:
Step One: Suppose you want to develop a decision support system to support a quality of care improvement initiative within the hospital at which you work. Quality initiatives often start with data - using data to improve healthcare. Using Simon's decision making model, read the article on Using Data to Improve Quality. Using Data to Improve Healthcare.pdf
Step Two: Develop a check list of activities for each phase.
Answer:
Decision Support System of DFWHC using Simon’s model
The Simon’s model consists of three phases namely Intelligence Phase, Design Phase, and Choice Phase (Pkirs.utep.edu., 2017). The decision system is formed for the development of the DFWHC so that effective development system is formed. The analysis would provide the management of the system integration and carrying out the development of the operations (Hartnett et al., 2016). Following are the checklist for each of the phases of Simon’s decision making process,
Checklist for Intelligence Phase
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Is the information used for the decision support system prominent?
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Are the problems identified for the DFWHC significant?
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Can the Decision support system be helpful for easing the processes of DFWHC?
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Is the comparison of the information done cohesively for forming the decision support system?
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Checklist for Design Phase
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Is any design methodology selected for the decision making system development?
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Has the design feasibility being checked by the designer of the system for DFWHC?
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Does the support of the advanced tools being used for the system development?
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Is the design of the system symmetric and aligned to client’s requirements?
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Checklist for Choice Phase
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Have all the possible choices considered for selection of choice made?
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Is the choice taken cost effective or value benefit for DFWHC?
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Does the final decision process is taken by considering all important and crucial factors?
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Does the client (DFWHC’s owners) approve of the decision taken?
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References
Hartnett, A. T., Schertzer, E., Levin, S. A., & Couzin, I. D. (2016). Heterogeneous preference and local nonlinearity in consensus decision making. Physical review letters, 116(3), 038701.
Pkirs.utep.edu. (2017). SIMON'S MODEL OF DECISION MAKING. UTEP Spring. Retrieved 8 November 2017, from https://pkirs.utep.edu/mit5312/Additional%20Coverage/Tutorials/TUTSP05/60.htm
