Clinical documents containing information about patients and their clinical course, created by healthcare staff while patients are under their care.
What are medical records (MR)?
100
A local SAP vendor who proposed to make only 350 software developments, vs a competitors 1000
Who is CompuNet?
100
Health insurers responsible for enrolling members and managing system's resources
What are HPO's?
100
For many companies information assets can amount to greater then X% of capital spending
What is 50%?
100
In this mode, the spending mantra is, "spend what it takes, and monitor the results like crazy"
What is Strategic Mode?
200
A single unified system to share a single database by the entire organization to achieve centralized management and integrated information processing.
What is ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning?
200
The initiative that will integrate all of VLF's clinical, administrative and back-office processes
What is the Synapsis Project?
200
That the system would provide a seamless solution to all of their problems by handling records electronically
What were employee expectations?
200
This type of IT strategy is all about operational reliability
What is Defensive IT?
200
companies in this mode strategically "bet the farm" on new technology
What is Turnaround Mode?
300
Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung
What does SAP stand for?
300
This was a Big-Bang - rather than rather than a phased implementation
What was VLF's go live strategy?
300
The ECO, CMD, chief nursing officer, chief administrative officer and heads of medical units made up this entity within VLF
What is the physician's medical council?
300
Unanticipated circumstances or events that ultimately lead to a positive transformation.
What are 'Happy Accidents'?
300
Companies in this mode suffer an immediate loss of business if systems fail for even a minute; they require highly reliable systems but don't really need state of the art computing.