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What is Health Informatics? - Answer The practice of acquiring, studying and managing
health data and applying medical concepts in conjunction with health information technology
systems to help clinicians provide better.
What is the role & responsibility of a Chief Medical Officer (CMO) - Answer Oversee the
decisions and operations of physicians and other clinical personnel providing services within the
context of a health services organization.
What is the role & responsibility of a Chief Information Officer (CIO) - Answer Oversees all
HMIS applications and technology procurement, acceptance and adoption practices throughout
the healthcare services organization and responsible for the alignment of corporate and HMIS
strategic goals and objectives including use of IT to improve administrative efficiencies and
clinical productivity and effectiveness.
What is the roles & responsibility of a Chief Technology Officer (CTO)? - Answer Oversees the
throughput, accuracy, speed and availability and reliability of an organizations HMIS, improving
the efficiency of IT systems, and the appropriate implementation of hardware, software,
communication and network technology solutions.
What are the roles & responsilbilty of a Chief Security Officer (CSO)? - Answer Oversees the
security and backup of HMIS applications and developing strategies including safeguarding
HMIS technology applications against attacks from hackers and viruses.
What are the roles & responsibilities of the Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO)? - Answer
Oversees the gathering, maintaining and disseminating of the health organizations knowledge,
designing the organizational programs and systems to ease on the reuse of knowledge among
knowledge-enabled organization.
What is the PODC model steps? - Answer Planning, Organizing, Directing, and Controllinga
What does Planning in PODC involve? - Answer Vision & Mission, planning is initiated.
Enviro assesment, strategy formulation & policy development