WGU C427 TERMS
Information-Sharing Culture - ANSWER Builds confidence among employees
from various departments within the same organization. While nurses, physicians,
and others must be sensitive to the privacy, confidentiality, and security of specific
information under their care, they must be allowed to share some types of
information with coworkers for the benefit of the organization as a whole.
Information-Functional Culture - ANSWER Adopts the conventional notion that
information is power and that giving up information entails giving up the power to
dominate others.
Information-Inquiring Culture - ANSWER Makes the organization's basic values,
beliefs, and purpose clear, and guarantees that vital information about the
organization's processes, procedures, and operations is easily accessible to all
employees within the organization. Employees are also encouraged and trained to
actively monitor such information and connect their everyday actions and
behaviors with organizational trends and new leadership directions.
Information-Discovery Culture - ANSWER Entails the organization's ability to
openly exchange insights and encourages its employees to participate in developing
new products and/or services that fulfill the needs of existing and new customers.
Employees within the firm are also given a thorough understanding of how the
organization operates and how it will assist them in dealing with crises and radical
changes, as well as discovering ways to obtain a competitive advantage over its
competitors.
Data/Information/Knowledge Component - ANSWER Includes the specification,
organization, and interrelationship of data, information, and knowledge elements
required by an integrated HMIS.
Hardware/Software/Network Component - ANSWER This component entails
configuring various hardware, software, user interface, and
communication-enabling infrastructures, associated devices, and applications to
, achieve efficient and effective information service integration while connecting
individuals, groups, and organizations.
Process/Task/System Component - ANSWER Exemplifies HMIS's routine and
internalized driving engine. Our focus should be on achieving cohesiveness within
existing "local" processes, tasks, and applications.
In other words, existing administrative-based HMIS, such as financial information
systems, human resources information systems, facility utilization and scheduling
systems, materials management systems, facilities management systems, and office
automation systems, as well as clinical-based HMIS applications like EHR, CPOE,
and CDSS, must be designed to collect relevant data and accumulate useful
information for organizational task-processing and decision-making activities.
Integration/Interoperability Component - ANSWER This necessitates not only a
thorough understanding of evolving technological innovations and changing needs
in organizational task processes but also knowledge of the market structure and
changing characteristics of the healthcare services industry, as well as how the
various current systems should be designed to work seamlessly with each other to
achieve an integrated, enterprisewide HMIS.
User/Administration/Management Component - ANSWER Organizes and
intelligently coordinates all other HMIS components. Based on a shared
technological infrastructure, for example, various users are empowered to perform
specific tasks and activities that support the organization's overall business
goals—that is, to serve their clients both inside and outside the organization in the
most efficient, productive, and effective manner possible.
Health IT Vision - ANSWER entails the corporate alignment of IT goals and
strategies with health organization goals and strategies.
Crafting a "vision" - ANSWER is typically a lengthy process to develop a set of
shared goals among important corporate members.
Strategic IT planning sessions - ANSWER Required to fine-tune the vision.