Case Study: South Carolina Heart

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South Carolina Heart recently was taken over by a company called LifePoint. The new organization chart is in the making. My site superior said the new organization chart is going to be over sixty pages! She believes it will be for all the organizations LifePoint is over. I do have an old organizational chart in which the structure is broken down between two sides’ information and currency. The Chief Executive Officer is over both sides. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is Sherry Shult until new structure. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is Kathy Koenig until new structure. The Health Information Department is located on the information side. The HIM department holds the same weight as the Information Technology on this level everyone answers

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