Biomedical Informatics 4th Edition by Edward Shortliffe, James Cimino

Exercise 5

Assume that you are the chief informa-tion officer of multi-facility HCO. Youhave just been charged with planning anew clinical HCIS to support a large ter-tiary care medical center, two smallercommunity hospitals, a nursing home,and a 40-physician group practice. Eachorganization currently operates its ownset of integrated and standalone technol-ogies and applications. What technical and organizational factors must you con-sider? What are the three largest chal-lenges you will face over the next24 months?