title: Assessing the IT function in less than one day.
abstract: It's possible to gauge a hospital's IT functions in one day by hiring a consultant to review three key areas: infrastructure and application performance, execution, and alignment. To do so, the consultant should speak with: The hospital's CIO, Members of the IT department, Three senior members of the leadership team, A small sample of frontline managers, A sample of front-line users who were involved in recent implementations.
authors.affiliation: Partners HealthCare, Boston, USA. jglaser@partners.org
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Glaser
mesh_terms: D003253:Consultants; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States