Overcoming Organizational Challenges: Children Health Fund

Children Health Fund Providing comprehensive medical services in a given jurisdiction may involve the use of mobile clinics alongside main medical services. The service attempts to reach out to the wider community whom due to various reasons does not get sufficient medical services. These services are updated to ensure that they meet optimal quality at all times. This analysis investigates the Children's Health Fund of New York, implications of the Fund, and recommendation for betterment.

The Child Health Fund of 1987 is instrumental in assisting clinicians provide comprehensive medical covers to children. The Organization was founded to enable contemporary clinic services as well as, mobile services with an objective of offering services to low income earners and destitute children. The organization has provided up-to-date facilities, with the ability to integrate complex medical facilities in mobile clinics. As a result, there has been a need to mobilize funds to respond to the prevailing need in relation to quality.

The organization has wooed corporate entities to fund its initiatives. For instance, organizations like GlaxoSmithKline have been on the front-line in assisting the CHF with funds. Funds are channeled towards providing hardware and software services. With time, the organization has achieved proper delivery systems like hardware- X-Ray Scans and Software the Electronic Medical Record. Nonetheless, the implications of this program are instrumental in reaching into the local communities positively. In New York, the ever-growing number of street families without considerate medical covers is worrying.

Therefore, the program seeks to offset the disparities created by the current medical system, which only caters for the employed. However, the organization faces serious challenges in relation to the quality of services it should be offering. The organization provides mild medical services, and not necessary treating patients with chronic diseases. The underlying reason is based on the fact that chronic diseases are expensive to treat. Therefore, in providing comprehensive facilities, which are considerably expensive, it is best to merge the CHF with other parallel programs like the Medicare.

This not only will ensure that program is well funded, but also reach out to the local indigenous community. Implementation challenges The program applies diverse technologies in both hardware and software. The technologies are entitled in scheduling medical services for attendants, as well tackling other clinical procedures. However, the technologies do not meet comprehensive services. Firstly, it is good to note that the CHF is primarily a mobile clinic. The clinics hop between different regions. Therefore, it is impossible to meet services of sparsely distributed children.

Secondly, the CHF has failed to provide quality medical services. In recent weeks, 7,000 patients have been rendered without medical services, since their doctors' offices have been terminated. This is a result of the poor failure of an Electronic Medical Record system, which fail to allocate patients to different doctors if in case of disasters; for instance, the Katrina. A good medical management system should ensure that a patient is served with at least one doctor and two standby doctors. Thirdly, the hardware system has failed to provide quality clinical services.

As a result, children housed in trailers have worsened to chronic illness. For instance, trailers in the Baton Rouge area experienced an increase in anemic conditions. In any case, the machine mandated in diagnosis and follow-up does not meet the requirements of standardization. Response to CIO Weisman (Technical Challenges) Are there newer more affordable network communications solutions that should be tried? Yes, there are newer technologies, which can be applied to replace the EMR system currently being implemented by the CHF.

For instance, the problem caused by Katrina Hurricane could be managed by the application of the Tablets. Tablet learning systems like Ushahidi.com will be applied to communicate to response doctors where the problem catalysis more. Will the federal government's HITECH stimulus funds and Meaningful Use Standards lead to better software integration solutions? The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was instrumental in increasing funding in Electronic health records systems. Therefore, HITECH systems were to be improvised at standardized Tax-free.