HITT - 1311 - Check Your Understanding / Study Questions - Chapter 3

Which of the following critical success factors in health IT strategic planning is most often not performed well?

Workflow and process mapping

Which of the following visioning exercise is often effective when working with physicians?

Worst-day improvements

Provide two examples of each of the following as might be documented on a migration path:

1) Build EMPI/R-ADT 2) Buy New Pt/Accts

Strategic planning for health IT is most successful if?

All stakeholders are engaged

A tool to identify factors that may influence but are external to or not under control of the organization is?

An environmental scan

Determining whether goals are being met is a critical success factor in which strategic plan component?

Benefits Realization

The IT acquisition strategy in which there is one primary vendor is referred to as?

Best-of-fit strategy

The primary purpose of strategic planning is?

Building and maintaining an adequate technology infrastructure.

How may the dependencies in a migration path be illustrated?

By aligning components on the migration path, both across the phases and down through the various planning components.

A critical success factor for health IT strategic planning is to?

Construct a plan in a manner that demonstrates clear support for each of the elements on the organization's plan.

Which of the following statements is true?

Continually needed for upgrades, replacements, enhancements, and so on

Determining the organization's acquisition strategy for health IT has direct bearing on:

Cost of health It

The description of how an organization plans to use data standards and build its data infrastructure is referred to which of the following strategies?

Data strategy

Which department is least likely to report to IT?

Enterprise Health Information

Determining how a strategy will be paid for is part of what strategic plan component?

Financing and acquisition strategy

The way in which health IT performs with respect to its users and in relationship to its boundaries with other systems is a consideration of which critical success factor?

Function strategy

The establishment of policies for the effective and efficient management of an organization's assets and continual monitoring of the effectiveness of the policies is?

Governance

In which of the Gartner generation is clinical decision support initiated in the EHR?

Helper

On a migration path, an example of an operational element that is part of strategic planning is?

Hiring specialized staff.

Health informatics professional:

Individual responsible for data and information governance across the entire organization.

Enterprise health information management professional:

Individual responsible for how data and information are analyzed, transformed, used in decision support, and disseminated within a learning health system.

Chief technology officer:

Individual responsible for implementing and maintain computer technologies.

Database administrator:

Individual who designs and manages the technical implementation and maintenance of databases.

How does a migration path describe health IT components?

It is a 30,000 foot view of health IT systems that are in place and planned over time. A strategic plan for health IT.

Chief information officer:

Member of the executive team responsible for overall management, implementation, and usability of information.

In the Garter EHR Generation Criteria, which phase is the EHR fully mature in?

Mentor generation

Write a brief description of the difference between a migration path and an implementation, or project, plan:

Migration path: strategic plan identifies major applications, technology, & operational elements to move from one situation level to another. Implementation plan: sequence of tasks taken to accomplish an implementation; EHR & HIT systems, implementation plans have hundreds or thousands of tasks.

Medical director of information systems:

Physician responsible for providing clinical support for EHR configuration and training.

Chief medical informatics officer:

Physician who serves as liaison between administration and the clinical community.

Explain the meaning of a migration path.

Reflects milestones in the strategic plan for EHR and health IT implementation, adoption, and optimization.

When an organization is faced with a potential major change in direction, the strategic planning model most suitable is?

Scenario

In which stage of the meaningful use of EHR incentive program is computerized provider order entry (CPOE) required?

Stage 2

In which stage of the US EMR Adoption Model from HIMSS Analytics is bar code medication administration required to be used?

Stage 3

Which stage in the HIMSS US EMR Adoption Model is roughly equivalent to the Gartner colleague generation?

Stage 6

What stage of the HIMSS US EMR Adoption Model would be consistent with the ONC Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap timeframes?

Stage 7

A practicing physicians who volunteers to assist with health IT for an organization is?

The Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO)

What action should a member of the strategic planning team take when that member has a conflict of interest when a matter is taken to a vote?

They must recuse themselves from the vote, if not also the discussion.

The time frame for strategic planning is typically how long?

Three to five years but ideally ten years.