Question

Imagine you are a healthcare manager for Veteran’s Administration hospital. You are charged with providing an analytical review of the bullet points below:

• Evidence of strategic planning.
• Evidence of information technology plans or projects.
• Analysis of how their IT plans support their mission and strategic plans.
• Use of research to support your ideas and thoughts about this organizations planning.

Answer 1

Ans1) Strategic Planning:

-A disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization (or other entity) is, what it does, and why it does it.

Purpose:

•Target group specified
•Contribute significantly to goal
•Outside immediate control of project
•Formulated as desired state or process.

Evidence of Strategic Planning:

• Situational Analysis

Includes methods like poverty analysis, academic literature review , institutional and governance analysis

• SWOT Analysis

Brain stroming process that identifies internal factors such as strengths and weaknesses and external factors such as opportunities and threats.

• Development of Survey:

a) Use a forced choice format to solicit input from stakeholders and to narrow responses.

b) Ask 4 core questions:

What are the greatest challenges our district must address in the next 5 years to provide the highest quality of education? What are the most important skills & abilities students need for a successful future?

What evidence do you use to evaluate the quality of education in our district?

What should be our district's financial priorities during the next 5 years?

c) Might use narratives at the end (no more than 2) such:

What could the district do to delight you?What info or advice would you give the planning team as they establish long term goals?

Ans2) Health informatics

- Scientific discipline that is concerned with the cognitive, information-processing, and communication tasks of healthcare practice, education, and research, including the information science and technology to support these tasks.

Health information system

Refers to all the components - human and computer - that ensure health data are processed into useful health information.

Evidence of Information technology plan/projects:

• Information governance:

The accountability framework and decision rights to achieve enterprise information management (EIM). IG is the responsibility of executive leadership for developing and driving the IG strategy throughout the organization. IG encompasses both data governance (DG) and information technology governance (ITG).

• Personal health data:

Data maintained by an individual, often in a personal health record.

• Public health data:

Data used to prevent the spread of disease.

Ans3) Strategic Planning is defined as-

The art and science of formulating, developing, implementing and evaluating cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives. It's a complete look at how to position an organization for the future.

Vision Statement

Vivid, guiding image. Ultimate picture.

Mission Statement

Specific Activities - Who is, What does, Who Customers are

Vision and Mission Statments

- Crystallize vies of long term direction.
- Keep actions of EE's toward same goal.
- Conveys purpose, identify motivation to do best
- Prepare for future.

The Strategic Planning process:

In order to analyze the Strategic IT plans:

Involves careful analysis of 3 questions:
1. Where is the company now?
2. Where does the company want to go?
3. How will the company get there?