Deck 8: Digital Health Strategic Planning Strategies for Health Systems

Question 1

When running an organization, what should be used to convey vision and expectations?

A) Rewards
B) Strategic planning
C) TQM
D) Regulatory committee

Answer 1

B

Question 2

During strategic planning at a practice of four physicians with three office workers operating at a single location for seeing patients, who should be involved in strategic planning?

A) Everyone in the organization
B) Employees and patients
C) Office manager only
D) Physicians only

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What can smart health IT help create at a larger level?

A) Better educated patients
B) More revenue
C) Better billing practices
D) Better national health outcomes

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following would be less common in health IT strategic planning?

A) Examining resource flow
B) Systematic pursuit of goals
C) Testing future scenarios
D) Planning for patient reduction

Question 5

In Lederer and Sethi's SISP model, what is the first phase?

A) Planning the health IT process
B) Analyzing the current environment
C) Conceiving strategy alternatives
D) Formulating strategy

Question 6

When implementing Lederer and Sethi's SISP model, what comes after working on alternatives to the chosen strategy?

A) Selecting strategy
B) Reducing headcount
C) Buying difficultware
D) Situational analysis

Question 7

Which falls outside the normal dimensions of Lederer and Sethi's SISP process?

A) Alignment
B) Analysis
C) Cooperation
D) Confirmation

Question 8

Which key to strategic awareness most critically involves the most senior members of the organizational chart?

A) Planning team
B) Top management commitment
C) Key planning issues
D) Planning objectives

Question 9

What level of focus should IT strategic planner use?

A) High
B) Medium
C) Low
D) Mixed, based on the point in the process

Question 10

What sort of change has occurred in terms of external pressure on internal health IT systems?

A) A large increase
B) A small increase
C) A small decrease
D) A large decrease

Question 11

Which falls outside the normal process for conceiving strategy?

A) Identify major IT objectives
B) Identify temp agencies for IT services
C) Identify opportunities for improvement
D) Identify high-level suppliers

Question 12

Which of the following is least important for the SI phase?

A) Policies
B) Procedures
C) Structures
D) Advocacy

Question 13

The ONC was created by the HITECH Act.

Question 14

The Federal Health IT Strategic Plan lays out the U.S. national vision for health IT.

Question 15

The days of isolated, legacy health IS/IT work are ending rapidly.

Question 16

If organizational strategy and health IT planning have recently been aligned at a medium-sized regional hospital, SISP has probably been used.

Question 17

Strategic planning depends much more on the process than on which team members are selected.

Question 18

SISP can only succeed if the team responsible is given access to all needed data.

Question 19

Standard SISP procedures look at health IT in five dimensions.

Question 20

People are one of Sittig and Singh's eight socio-technical dimensions.

Question 21

There is one correct order in which Sittig and Singh's eight dimensions should be considered.

Question 22

Examining clinical content should come after analyzing the human-computer interface in Sittig-Singh-style SISP.

Question 23

Systems availability is a key part of health IT measurement.

Question 24

In the United States, if you are working on health IT/IS for a large city's government, you need to pay close attention to directives from the _________.

Question 25

The HITECH Act provides money to health organizations that create _________-certified health IT systems.

Question 26

Differentiate between "strategic planning" and "strategy." Why is understanding the different terminologies important for planners?

Question 27

As mentioned in the chapter, planners in a health systems organization strategically plan and produce the health IT vision and define its strategic objectives. What are some of the inputs that the planning team would consider when developing the health IT strategic plans?

Question 28

How do you think members of the planning team work to get the health IT strategy aligned with the organization's strategy? Illustrate your answer with a case scenario.

Question 29

What makes strategic planning of health IT appear to be unique and more complex than most other business systems? Who are key stakeholders in health systems organizations?

Question 30

How do advances in health IT impact the strategic planning process?