Project Management Office

John Henricks, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, and Geoff Patterson, Vice President, IT Business and Service Integration, the Henry Ford Health System, and John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator). This teleconference discusses the evolution of Henry Ford Helath System's Project Management Office, a current work in progress. Topics include the consolidation of...

John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator), and Kathy Mulvey, Director, PMO, Ascension Health. John and Kathy discuss insight and strategies for driving a consistent methodology when PMO maturity levels and reporting relationships vary across an organization, and tailoring approaches to foster an openness to change and the building of a collaborative PMO team.

John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator), Melissa Dill, Vice President, Shared System Services, Ascension Health, and Johnathan Nielsen, Senior Director, Programs & Projects Management Office, Dignity Health. John, Melissa and Johnathan share their approaches, considerations and lessons learned in structuring their Project Management Offices. This includes highlighting various PMO types, functions and organizational...

John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator), Joel Verinder, PMP, Director, Portfolio Management Office, Texas Health Resources, Johnathan Nielsen, Senior Director, Programs & Projects Management Office, Dignity Health, and Ramon Martinez, Director, Project Management Office, BayCare Health System. This interactive discussion focuses on sharing existing practices to prioritize complex project portfolios. Topics include: which...

John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator), Carla Robelli, VP, PMO, Trinity Health, Nanda Lahoud, Administrative Director, Value Realization-Innovative Technology Solutions, Texas Health Resources, Emily Handwerk, System Executive, Information Systems, and Mike Rodriguez, Manager, Professional Services, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, panelists. This panel features representatives from large healthcare systems who share their approaches, successes...

John A. Kocon, PMP, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives. CHI's journey to improve project performance began four years ago with the implementation of an IT-focused Project Management Office. Based on the value received from IT PMO services, business demand grew, which resulted in expanding services to support strategic priorities across the enterprise. This...

Steve Sarros, VP Project Management and Logistics, Spectrum Health, facilitates a discussion about how SI member organizations are structuring the PMO, including: alignment of the PMO with the strategic plan, capital planning, and regular financial reporting. The session includes how the structures support both general operations and those functions with traditionally strong project management such as Facilities and IT...

Chris Armstrong, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP, Vickie Monteith, RN, Director, Deloitte & Touche, and Chris Davis, Director Deloitte Consulting, provide insight into the implementation phase of the ICD-10 regulations based on experience through work with numerous ICD-10 clients. This team focuses the discussion on the following: What should providers be thinking about after the assessment phase? What are some...

Shermeen Vakharia, MD, HS/Clinical Professor, Director of Thoracic Vascular, and Compliance and Quality Improvement Officer, University of California Irvine, identifies the performance requirements of Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) and how UCI evaluated and differentiated various systems to match user and functional requirements. Additionally, Dr. Vakharia describes how to organize an implementation team and develop a project plan for...

Stephanie Kitt, RN, Director Quality & Clinical Informatics, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Mike Koch, Manager, Project Management Office, and Randy O'Steen, RN, System Director, Strategy and Innovation, CHRISTUS Health, and Michael S. Warden, Senior V.P. Information Technology - CIO, Banner Health, share their respective approaches to project prioritization and justification, which was introduced by Stephanie Kitt at SI's 2008 Fall...