AnticlueAn IT Analyst's musings based on experience in a Health Care Institution.HIMSS 2008 Perceptions - A first glance- February 26, 2008 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...http://www.anticlue.net/archives/000873.htm Our best intentions and the effects of not collaborating- February 23, 2008 It should of been a slam dunk, it is a good endeavor. It isn't technically challenging, operationally challenging, and has a lot of benefits. Everyone was well-intentioned. But we collaborated as silos and not as a team, and the project...http://www.anticlue.net/archives/000872.htm Quick Little Risk Management Checklist- February 23, 2008 Here is a little checklist of what it means to do Risk Management during project management. Use a risk-discovery process to compile the risks lurking about to impact the project Make sure the entire core risks are represented on the...http://www.anticlue.net/archives/000871.htm Tasks, Projects, Programs- February 11, 2008 As the development of a methodology persists for a PMO, there is a vagueness surrounding the conceptual differences between a project, program, and task. For the project description, simply having a temporary unique endeavor with a beginning and an end...http://www.anticlue.net/archives/000870.htm IT Value: Is it an Expense Center or a Value Center- February 8, 2008 Historically in most healthcare enterprises, IT is viewed as an operational expense. In order to change how IT is used, one has to have executive agreement to change the way IT is viewed and used. There are some key indicators...http://www.anticlue.net/archives/000869.htm Planning and Managing Risk- February 6, 2008 A corporation's ability to plan their work and work their plan is the key difference between success and failure. If your enterprise doesn't understand the interdependent nature of departments, a component which can help bring a project in and deliver...http://www.anticlue.net/archives/000868.htm Graphical Hospital Quality Ranking by Locale- February 4, 2008 The Healthcare IT guy has a link which nicely illustrates Hospital Ranking linking HHS hospital database and Google Maps. Capitalizing upon the publicly available information from the Department of Health and Human Services, it portrays an interesting picture. It quickly...http://www.anticlue.net/archives/000867.htm Risk Management & Healthcare IT- February 3, 2008 Surprisingly, it is simply amazing how essential the practice of risk management is in Healthcare IT projects and how often this practice is abandoned. As organizations mature and grow from a reactionary mode of operations to a proactive mode, risk...http://www.anticlue.net/archives/000866.htm |