Health care organizations are constantly striving to keep up with technological advances in order to provide the best quality patient care imaginable. Success depends on implementing on information system that is designed to meet the quality standards set for the health care industry. Implementing an information system can be a big challenge, which is why choosing an information system that will assist the organization in meeting their goals is important. Including stakeholder input is also vital to ensuring the correct system to choose. This briefing will discuss the process for selecting and acquiring an information system, how the goals of the organization, and how the stakeholders affect the selection process. Selection and Acquisition.
In order to begin to select and acquire the information system project committee they will need to be chosen to oversee the project. A Project manager will be appointed to lead the committee team responsible for determining the process by implementing and conducting research in regards to the types to information best suites the organization needs. All health care process within the organization must be identified and standards must be set for each of them. The committee will also define the project objectives and determine the scope of analysis needed to evaluate the organization’s system requirements. The marketplace should be screened and vendors should be evaluated. Once the system goals have been identified the committee will prioritize these goals. A request for information form will need to created and distributed. Options should be examined to choose which method of acquiring the system would be best, an application service provider, or to build an in-house system by contracting a system developer. The organization should receive proposals from the analysis of vendors; they need to evaluate to be evaluated. Evaluation