Reference no: EM132406368

Forming committees

You are the chairperson of a large information systems (IS) committee in charge of implementing a new EHR. The committee is so large that you are not getting anything done. For example, you met for 4 hours yesterday and only got through 3 of the 15 items on the agenda because everyone wants to have his or her say on each issue. The committee makeup is as follows:

• Project leader
• HIM Director
• Vice President, Finance
• Vice President, Clinical Services
• Chief Information Officer
• Director, Lab
• Director, Radiology
• 4 computer programmers
• Vice President, Nursing
• 2 vendor representatives
• Director, Cardiopulmonary Services
• Director, Materials Management
• Director, Research
• 3 systems analysis
• 2 database administrators
• Director, Training

The decision has been made to create subcommittees. The subcommittees will be:

• Training
• Data Management (data quality, data collection and data retrieval
• Development (programming, customization)
• Conversion
• Interfaces

All representatives should be on at least 1 subcommittee.

1. Who would you place on each subcommittee? 

2. Why did you choose them?

3. What charge would you give to each subcommittee?