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AEHIT Foundation Partners, for an additional fee, have the opportunity to conduct an online survey with all current AEHIT members, which remains posted on the AEHIT website for a total of 30 days. The CTO surveys are a useful resource for organizations looking for feedback/data on various HIT-related interests. The collected, raw data will be distributed to your contact in an excel and PDF format, allowing the results to be easily sorted and summarized to your firm’s specifications.

Please read the survey guidelines below prior to submitting and scheduling your firm’s survey.

  • Survey Format Guidelines

    There are many ways to approach a topic that lends itself to surveying. In order to gain the most insight from your survey it is necessary to follow an efficient, focused process in order to produce concrete data from which substantial inferences can be made. When definitive data is gathered from a survey, it will be easier to organize and analyze the results. The underlying purpose of a survey is to measure whether you are able to identify a proposition and to design and implement a plan to gather the data necessary to prove the proposition.

    The following are some helpful tips for developing your survey questions:

    Less Questions = More Responses

    Total number of online survey questions must be 10 questions or less. Respondents usually don’t have the time or patience to answer a very long survey. When drafting your questionnaire make a mental distinction between what is essential to know, what would be useful to know, and what would be unnecessary. Retain the former, keep the useful to a minimum and discard the rest.

    Keep It Simple

    Multiple choice questions are easier for respondents to comprehend; there’s a clearer understanding of the purpose of the question with a limited set of choices where one answer is right for them. An open-ended question (written response) reduces the quality and attention the respondents give to the answers.

    Keep it timely/relevant

    People’s memories are increasingly unreliable as you ask them to recall events farther and farther back in time. You will get far more accurate information from people if you ask, “About how many times in the last month did you see a movie in a theater?” rather than, “About how many times last year did you see a movie in a theater?”

    Also, we recommend that you do not ask any questions that an AEHIT CTO isn’t qualified and/or able to answer in one sitting. A question that may require research and/or involvement of other departments will likely result in an incomplete survey.

    Do not use double negatives

    Respondents can easily be confused deciphering the meaning of a question that uses two negative words.

    Think general to specific

    The issues raised in one question can influence how people think about subsequent questions. It is good to ask a general question and then ask questions that are more specific.

    Keep the personal info minimal and at the end

    AEHIT discourages Foundation firms from asking personal information on surveys, you can but you should realize you might not get many responses because of it. A Harvard Business Review article on formatting of surveys suggests that demographic information (i.e. name) should be asked at the end of a survey, that way they have already answered the questions and the person is more likely to submit the survey regardless of whether they put in the demographic data or not. The question is: are you trying to get clients or get information? If you are trying to get information (purpose of foundation surveys), then you should put the demographic data at the end with “optional” next to it or some type of text that states: “for more information about (your company name) please provide…”

    All Foundation surveys include the disclaimer “The information collected on this and all AEHIT Foundation surveys is completely confidential. All responses are anonymous.“

  • Survey Topic Guidelines

    A well-devised survey is defined by data gathered in a cogent manner. When information can be interpreted directly and without bias, a survey can be considered a success. Often, the simplest way to choose a survey topic is to ask yourself what you would like to ask people about. What do you respond to? What do you take interest in?

    Suggested topics:
    – ICD-10
    – Data analytics
    – Big data
    – Accountable care organizations
    – Clinical process improvement
    – Interchanging data
    – Thought leadership

    Survey bias can be subtle or blatantly obvious in a question’s wording, and can take many forms. Survey designer’s should aim to remain impartial and avoid writing questions that lead or confuse the respondent. This is usually easier said than done as writers generally create biased questions unknowingly. To help squash this bias, it is essential to remain neutral in all questions no matter how extreme the topic. Here are some helpful guidelines to help keep your responses neutral and avoid incomplete responses.

    Topics/Questions to avoid:
    – Budget detailed questions – questions about increases and decreases – these questions are hard for CTOs to firm
    numbers/totals for
    – Clinic questions such as, “Are you going to change vendors?”
    – Avoid questions that are negative

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    Relevant Webinars

    Holding an Online Member Survey – Your Questions Answered
    Presented by AEHIT Foundation staff
    21 minutes

 

SUBMIT AN ONLINE SURVEY

If you have any additional questions regarding the preparation of survey content, please email [email protected] or call 1.734.665.0000 and a Foundation staff member will be happy to assist you.