1. True or False: HIT leadership roles. The internal environment and government have direct, indirect, and substantial roles in healthcare operations.
2. True or False: The HITECH Act established the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to foster the electronic exchange and use of health information as well as to enforce health information privacy and security.
3. True or False: Congress in 1996, HIPAA particularly two of its components has a direct impact on healthcare information systems.
4. True or False: As rule two levels of personnel must be recruited to a staff an HIT department.
5. True or False: Within the next decade the budget for HIT personnel will decrease.
6. True or False: A CIO needs the technical skills to perform the CIO job.
7. True or False: Healthcare organizations must consistently apply their HIT plan across their multiple operating units.
8. True or False: Electronic data exchange can occur without standardization of data structures used in computer applications.
9. True or False: HIT should support the strategic goals, objectives and priorities of the organization it serves.
10. True or False: HIT governance does not help the organizations make business decisions.
11. True or False: The steering committee must determine whether the organization will require central review and approval of all computer hardware and software purchases.
12. True or False: Discussion of resource requirements should not be a part of the HIT strategic plan because the finance department has total responsibility for finance and resource decisions.