Link to PDF: Change Management and Meaningful Use
Meaningful Use is supposed to enable significant and measurable improvements in healthcare delivery through the use of information technology such as an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. The impact of implementing an EHR on your healthcare organization is very significant. This Healthcare Information Management System Society (HIMSS) presentation addresses how to manage change associated with EHR implementations as you achieve meaningful use.
Link to PDF: Stakeholders Analysis
A stakeholder is an individual or group that a project affects in terms of their problems, needs or interests. This Project Management Institute (PMI) presentation describes how to prepare and administer a stakeholders survey, and use the results to obtain user feedback, foster constructive project commitment and facilitate change.
Link to PDF: System Optimization
System optimization is the long journey that begins after go-live. This presentation to the Puget Sound Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) describes how to use changes, through process improvement, as a way to maximize system use after deployment.
Link to PDF: Project Management HIT FAQs
Learn Project Management basics. We prepared this publication in conjunction with the Healthcare Information System Society (HIMSS) as an introduction on how to use project management methods in healthcare IT projects.
Link to PDF: Integrating IT Management with Project Management
This publication presented for a University of Washington Executive Master of Health Administration course demonstrates how to integrate IT management methods with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) from the Project Management Institute.
Link to PDF: HIT System Procurement
Healthcare organizations only procure computer systems periodically. We delivered this presentation to the Healthcare Information System Society (HIMSS) Enterprise Information Systems Steering (EIS) Committee to explain how to standardize IT procurements to help get the system you need.
Link to PDF: HIT Contracts and Negotiations
Healthcare organizations need to prepare for their next contract negotiations with an IT vendor. We created this publication in conjunction with the Healthcare Information System Society (HIMSS) to identify key clauses to include in your next healthcare IT contract and to pinpoint how to successfully negotiate that contract.
