Project Management Office

Paul E Pancoast, MD, MBA, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Brian Wells, Chief Technology Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn). Penn and Deloitte developed a Proof-of-Concept Clinical Business Intelligence dashboard application. Penn had several large-scale data warehousing projects underway, but was dependant on manual extraction techniques for clinical informatics dashboards. Deloitte and Penn worked collaboratively to...

Rose Ann Laureto, FCHIME, CIO, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, describes the benefits achieved and lessons learned from the implementation of a PMO to address comprehensive IT planning. This initiative included the development of collaborative relationships with department leaders, a formal web based process for requests and prioritization, project management training and the implementation of standard project management...

Two physician IT leaders present and discuss the evolving role of executive level physicians involved with clinical information system projects, whether that role is defined as Medical Director of Information Systems, Chief Medical Information Officer, Vice President of Clinical Informatics or other related management positions.  They will describe the drivers and expected results for this role, reporting structures, responsibilities...

Hugh Gilmore, MD, VP & Chief Quality Officer, and Liza Weavind, MD, Medical Director, and Janine Mazabob, Clinical Operations Director, both of Memorial Hermann eICU Advantage initiative, Memorial Hermann Health System, Houston, TX, review the MHHS e-ICU implementation with an emphasis on change management issues and results related to this significant process redesign initiative. They review organizational change impact...