Project Management Office

James Jordan, CIO, Ministry Service Center (MSC). The MSC was founded in 2011 to deliver Shared Services in support of HR, Finance and Supply Chain for Ascension Health. James discusses the 3-year journey to leverage Intelligent Process Automation to streamline operations, where they are empowering information workers with "Next Best Step" assistance based on prescriptive and predictive analytics to...

Jason Dinger, PhD, CEO MissionPoint Health Partners and COO, Ascension Care Management. MissionPoint Health Partners, a population health company that is part of Ascension, grew from managing one population in one market to managing the health needs of more than 250,000 members across multiple populations and almost 10,000 providers in seven states in just four years. As it transformed...

Bob Gleason, Director, Solution Value Office, Northwestern Medicine.  How does the IS organization in a large (and rapidly growing) academic health system deliver value to the enterprise, and do so at "the speed of the business?" Northwestern Medicine Information Services (NMIS) has put in place processes managed by the Solution Value Office (SVO) to increase focus on high-value projects,...

Melissa Dill, Vice President, Shared System Services, and Daryl Strecker, Regional PMO Director, Shared Delivery Systems, Ascension Health. Ascension Information Services (AIS) has been on a multi-year journey to develop and mature a Program Management Office to support the ever-changing technology needs of a large healthcare system. The formation of AIS' ePMO has focused on consolidation of resources, standardization...

Cherian Portz, PMP, System Director ePMO & Strategic Planning, and Jodie Gardner, PMP, Manager, ePMO Quality & Process Manager, Ministry Health Care.  Founded in 2004, the Ministry Health Care (MHC) Project Management office began with a focus on information technology projects to further improve the organization's allocation of capital and resource management within two of the organization's fifteen hospitals....

Kevin Hintz, Process Owner Change Management, Ascension Information Services (AIS) IT Service Management Office (ITSMO).  The ITSMO is leading the redesign of IT service delivery and maturation of IT service management processes through a number of project initiatives. The maturation of change management processes is one of the key areas of focus for the ITSMO, including the establishment of...

Bryce Carder, PMP, Senior Director Project Management Office, Banner Health, and John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator).  Bryce is responsible for Banner Health's enterprise Project Management Office.  Despite reporting to the IT division, the PMO leads high-risk, high-profile projects that have enterprise impact across Banner's integrated delivery system.  Bryce shares Banner Health's project...

Andrew Kinnear, MBA, PMP, Director, Project Management Office, University Hospitals, and John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator).  Andrew is responsible for both the Information Technology and the Performance Improvement Project Management Offices (PMOs).  The IT PMO leads large-scale systems implementations through a number of programs with combined annual capital and operating budgets more...

Jodie Gardner, Manager, ePMO Quality and Process, Ministry Health, and John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator). Ministry Health Care, an Ascension Health Ministry, utilizes MS Project Server 2013 in their ePMO (Enterprise Project Management Office).  To help our Project Managers validate that their Project workplans were set up correctly, our ePMO set-up a...

Carl Block, Director of PMO, Adventist Health. The Adventist Health Project Management Office is deeply involved in helping Information Technology improve outcomes and control costs. The PMO gives executives visibility into the application portfolio, and proposals to add or sunset applications. The PMO also provides visibility into the project portfolio that is implementing applications throughout the enterprise.  Finally, the...