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Yes I believe the absence of a full-time CIO has had an impact on the system acquisition project in a negative sense. By making the CIO a part-time position, automatically there is a vibe given that IT is not a major priority and as a result with the CIO only being in the office 2 days every 2 weeks, IT becomes an after thought and the issues of inefficiencies, transfer and discharge backlogs etc. are not held to the same level of urgency as the rest of the 3 Phase construction project. Given that with the new management structure having a CIO only part-time, the appropriateness of the CIO leading the process is not as prevalent. The one who should lead the selection process is one of fairly high management who is employed full-time …show more content…

The chair of the committee should either be the CIO or the most senior Clinical Manager/Supervisor of the hospital. Both of these individuals should have a working knowledge of the hospitals IT needs and have a idea of what capacity management systems would work and which ones would not work based on the steps taken as discussed in the previous slide. Other committee members should include a Senior Physician, and Supervising Nurse as they can provide insight into the clinical needs for the system. Also, the committee members should include a senior administrator and one other Chief Executive such as the CEO or COO to give perspective from the business and management side of the hospital
With Doctors’ Hospital being a smaller hospital of 161 beds a realistic time frame for implementation of the capacity management system would be about 1 year. Some steps that can be taken to ensure the timeline is met include having the committee vote on making IT a top priority at every meeting, designating one committee member to oversee that the implementation of the system is on schedule, and creating a visual timeline for all the committee members to see to maintain

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