You are the chairperson of a large Information Systems (IS) Committee in charge of implementing a new Electronic Health Record (EHR). 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 of Cardiopulmonary Services

Director, Materials Management

Director, Research

3 system 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 ONE subcommittee.

1. Who would you place on each committee?

2. Why did you choose them?

3. What charge would you give to each subcommittee?

Reference:

McCuen, C., Sayles, N. B., & McCuen, C. (2014). Case studies in health information management. Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.