Question

What took place in 2005 at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Summarize what occurred and how other organizations learned from this event.

Summarize why you think the CMIO role is or is not an important position and how this role, when leveraged correctly can help drive HIS adoption.

Answer 1

Cedars Sinai Mefical Center is a multispeciality hospital in California. In wept it was awarded the "most wired" hospital

The implementation is the following has been a a greater advancements in the medical filed which made doctor patient relationship stronger by longer time by avoiding paper work.

• The physician had a facility to view, make correction and sign off in the patient medical record either by staying insod or out of the hospital.
• The outpatient scheduling and medical charts where done using Electronic Medical Records
• The online hospital gift shop enabled the patient family and employee to purchase gift online and delivering to them.
• The patient were able to pay bill online
• The equipment can be purchased omline by the hospital

From this the othrr organizations learned how information technologies can be used for a quality patient service and be one of the outstanding hospital for all time.

The Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) is one who can handle the informational department of the office. Being a physician as their basics can make them easily colloborate with other health care professionals in the implementation of information technologies and its use bybthe staff.

The key role which makes them the most important person for an organization success are

• They can make a strategic planning on how to use EMR,Computerized physician order entry,Health information exchange
• They develop new policy
• Conducts training yo the staff on how to work on technologies in patient care
• They report the quality of the healthcare organization to the CEO and making way for corrections and better patient care
• They handle the stakeholder

When the above actions are done by a CMIO ,this enables the implementation and success of a Health Information System adoption easy and accessible to all.It can make the staff understand the use of information technologies .