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An IT Analyst's musings based on experience in a Health Care ...

Last Update: Sun May 4 19:55:43 2008

+ 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 ...

+ 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 ...

+ 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 ...

+ 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 ...

+ 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 ...

+ Our best intentions and the effects of not collaborating + It should of been a slam dunk, it is a good endeavor. It isn't technically challenging, operationally challenging, and has a lot ...

+ Quick Little Risk Management Checklist + Here is a little checklist of what it means to do Risk Management during project management. Use a risk-discovery process to compile ...

+ Tasks, Projects, Programs + As the development of a methodology persists for a PMO, there is a vagueness surrounding the conceptual differences between a project, ...

+ IT Value: Is it an Expense Center or a Value Center + Historically in most healthcare enterprises, IT is viewed as an operational expense. In order to change how IT is used, one has to ...

+ Planning and Managing Risk + A corporation's ability to plan their work and work their plan is the key difference between success and failure. If your ...

+ Graphical Hospital Quality Ranking by Locale + The Healthcare IT guy has a link which nicely illustrates Hospital Ranking linking HHS hospital database and Google Maps. Capitalizing ...

+ Risk Management & Healthcare IT + Surprisingly, it is simply amazing how essential the practice of risk management is in Healthcare IT projects and how often this ...

+ IT Governance, who makes the decision? + Who makes the call, or whose decision is it? In healthcare information technology, there still continues to be a rift in some ...

+ Finally passed the test + Over the weekend, I took the PMP exam and passed it on the first try! In reveiwing the last year of studying and preparing in between ...

+ Managing in light of McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y + As one studies for the PMI exam, on reviews McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y. Having spent about 10 years in the workforce, and 6 ...