Question

You have just been hired as the chief informatics officer (CIO) for a new health system. The heal... You have just been hired as the chief informatics officer (CIO) for a new health system. The health system has 23 acute care facilities and 36 outpatient clinics. It serves as a regional referral center for three states in the Midwest. Your installed base includes a vendor-supplied EHR from a national firm. Work on the data warehouse is just beginning. You have more than 300 varying applications across sites, including everything from a stand-alone pharmacy application for drug interactions to a cancer registry. Your goal is to provide IT support for the organizational vision of being the premier health organization in patient safety for the region. One of the first things you want to do is to plan for the future of IT.

3. Outline steps to introduce the chief executive officer to nanotechnology and its potential impact on the organization.

4. You want to increase collaborative work with a local university. What future directions for education do you think are most important as CIO?

Answer 1

To this date, the Chief Informatics Officer is an required role in most of the health system organization.

Being a Chief Informatics Officer of the new health system, main goals towards IT support for patient safety is:

• Identify the internal strengths as well as weekness:THis information will allow to inculcate a realistic stratergy.
• Use Smart model to set your objectives which are Specific, Measurable, Time bound, Relevent & Attainable.
• Think about who are the resurces who can involve in achieving the goals/Objectives.
• Analyse, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate communication system that increases health oucomes.
• Support the building of health informatics departments.

How to Plan for future IT, being a CIO:

• Help the end users adopt to health care technology.
• In the future, the CIO's will work with the most information depended organization, so that the skills and knowledge of the enduser increases.

Outline steps to introduce the chief executive officer to nanotechnology and its potential impact on the organization:

Nanotechnology is defined as the study and use of structure between 1 nanometer and 100 nanometer in size.

• Provide basic training on nanotechnology.
• Provide adequate learning materials.
• Provide a handson experience on the technology.

Impacts of nanotechnology:

Toxicity is one of the most impact

Future Directions for education of CIO:

• CIO's must be responsive to changing instituional needs.
• CIO must focus on operational excellence
• He must improve skills as his role evolves around many departments.