You are the health care administration informaticist at Adams University Hospital System in Burnside, KY. Three acute care centers, ten large primary care practices, a home care unit, and a continuing care community comprise AUHS. As a teaching center, they also collaborate to provide telehealth services nationally and internationally.
AUHS's Board has tasked the executive officers (you and your team) to examine the current state of health information technology in the corporation with the goal of improving the business model, patient safety and quality of care measurements, and meeting the organizational mission and legislative and regulatory mandates for the community they service through 2015.
In one page citing at least two 2011 or 2012 references, succinctly discuss the five most important technologic, social, mission and legal elements needed to meet the Board's directive in a memo to the Board.