Project Management for Healthcare Information Technology

Project Management for Healthcare Information Technology

<h4>A Proven, Integrated Healthcare Information Technology Management Solution</h4> <p>Co-written by a certified Project Management Professional and an M.D., <i>Project Management for Healthcare Information Technology</i> presents an effective methodology that encompasses standards and best practices from project management, information technology management, and change management for a streamlined transition to digital medicine.</p> <p>Each management discipline is examined in detail and defined as a set of knowledge areas. The book then describes the core processes that take place within each knowledge area in the initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing stages of a project. Real-world examples from healthcare information technology project leaders identify how the integrated approach presented in this book leads to successful project implementations.</p> <p><b>Coverage Includes:</b></p> <ul> <li>Integrating project, information technology, and change management methodologies</li> <li><i>PMBOK Guide</i> process groups--initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing</li> <li>Project management knowledge areas--integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communication, risk, and procurement management</li> <li>IT management knowledge areas--user requirements, infrastructure, conversion, software configuration, workflow, security, interface, testing, cutover, and support management</li> <li>Change management knowledge areas--realization, sponsorship, transformation, training, and optimization management</li> </ul>