Assignment

  

Case 7-15

Forming Committees

You are the chairperson of a large Information Systems (IS) committee in charge of implementing a new HER. 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 analysts

· 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?