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Assignment:
Please answer the discussion questions 1 - 10 on pg 40 of your text in short paragraphs with cited references where applicable.
1. Because most developers are not clinicians and most clinicians are not developers, what measures are necessary to ensure the development of an effective healthcare information system?
2. What is the golden triangle, and why does it influence healthcare management today?
3. What are the six most important external challenges faced by HIT today, and why do they influence HIT management?
4. What are the five most important future challenges that will face HIT, and why?
5. In what ways may improved HIT assist in continuity, communication, coordination, and accountability of patient care?
6. How can HIT assist organizations in responding to the drivers of IT changes?
7. Define and describe EBM. Are there positive or negative aspects of this concept for the healthcare field?
8. Why is the improvement of clinical information systems a high priority to most healthcare organizations?
9. Identify the most important challenge facing HIT today.
10. Order the following types of healthcare information systems from most important to least important to a healthcare organization, and discuss why you chose this order.