Home IT Healthcare RSS Feeds Contact Me My Resume Blog Home   Shameless Plugs Main Menu Home Blog Contact Me Development RSS Feeds IT Healthcare RSS Feeds Prephotosts Hire Me! Member Login Username Password Remember me Forgotten your password? No account yet? Create one AdSense IT Healthcare RSS Feeds Anticlue An IT Analyst's musings based on experience in a Health Care Institution. Establish a Resource Planning Process Lately, I've been playing with a way to manage resource demand for upcoming project work. There are gaps or problems, which I believe are common place. I'll share them here for others. First, even with the education provided, there is... HIMSS Sample RFP Documents We all know the engaging process for RFP development. It takes a month or two to develop an RFP with the key participation from the selection team. If you haven't been through the process before, the HIMSS Enterprise IS Steering... ICD-10 is in the distance The first of many announced deadlines has come out for the ICD-10 codes. For your information, ICD-10 is the new replacement code set for diagnosis and procedures in the healthcare industry. ICD-10 will provide great specificity leading to improved disease... Deming's Adaption of the 14 Points for Medical Service Just came across this one today, and I wanted to share and keep it in a place I'll remember. Establish constancy of purpose toward service.Define in operational terms what you mean by "service to the patient"Define standards of service for... Do we have the right mix of projects? As we examine portfolio projects one of the key questions is did we launch the right mix of projects? Have we balanced our strategic initiatives with a smooth blend of operational endeavors with a smidgeon of mandatory requirements? One has... Priorization: The art of choosing what not to do Let's take a couple of moments discussing how budget and resource capacity drives the need for a prioritization and selection process for IT project request. Over the years, IT has been viewed as a utility in some hospital environments, even... The key elements in establishing a PMO Let's take a couple of moments to talk about the fundamentals. A PMO needs to have some basic elements in place to drive the project portfolio. These elements include: A process for project presentation, prioritization, and selection. An understanding of... The Code Yellow Required meeting Once of the key problems in today's environment of over meeting, is that it is very hard to get a group together within any reasonable amount of time. Key participants are normally booked or engaged in meetings ahead of time.... Typical Barriers rolling out a project status reporting process. As with any change there are barriers, after rolling out a project bulletin board. I'd like to share the barriers, I have encountered and how to overcome these barriers. First there is the avoidance barrier, expressed as either "This involves... Top 100 Most Wired While others believe these are indicative of egotrips. The top 100 Most Wired are normally those hospitals who are committed to IT as a strategic enabler. This years listing are located here.... Decision Criteria Matrix We opened up the inherited hospital a couple of weeks ago. Given the scale of the endeavor, it went swimmingly well. A lot of hardwork by good people came together. Now we are finding the gaps in the processes. One... What do business analyst's do? CIO.com has a nice article on what business analysts do for software implementation projects. The eight key criteria are a good basis to compare the skills of your business analysts. Scope the system Interpret business need Translate Technical Issues Scope... Implementing a project dashboard 101 For the past several months, we have begun emailing a project bulletin board to our directors and executive suite. This bulletin board contains a comprehensive listing of all active and requested projects involving information services. On a bi-weekly basis the... Himss - Final Thoughts Congratulations to HIMSS for a great event. There were several highlights. A couple of items for follow up and follow through: Remind oneself not to be a technical zealot and be amazed by the technical wizardry. Look for the business... HIMSS 2008 Perceptions - A first glance HIMSS does a great job of organization for this event. I arrived on Sunday Morning for the CPHIMS Review Course. The course was a quick overview, covering material and questions. Good News, is it looks like HIMSS is coming out... [ Back ]

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