Reference no: EM132617434

Glaser, J. P., & Salzberg, C. (2011). The Strategic Application of Information Technology In Health Care Organizations. (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.

1. What measures might an organization use to assess the value of implementing personalized medicine?

(hint: Chapter 7)

2. Compare the relative pros and cons of a strategy to ensure hight degrees of integration between systems using a single vendor strategy versus an SOA-based strategy.

(hint: Chapter 8)

3. Organized health care delivery systems, such as Partners HealthCare or the VA, have high rates of HIT adoption when compared to smaller or independent providers. What have current federal initiatives to effect HIT adoption in smaller and independent providers learned from organized heath care delivery system strategies?

(hint: Chapter 9)

4. The characteristics and capabilities of the various components of the IT asset change in relative importance based on the nature of the IT undertaking. What characteristics and capabilities are especially important to an organization that must increase it emergency preparedness?

(hint: Chapter 10)

5. Compare and contrast the IT asset strategies that might result from an organizational strategy of becoming an accountable care organization with a strategy to become a low-cost provider of care.

(hint: Chapter 11)