Message for Members
Your
board is busy making final plans for our participation at HIMSS. We are
co-sponsoring a number of events from a pre-conference workshop to the
HIMSS Project Management SIG member meeting. We will also have a booth
so please stop by to meet your board and let us know what we can do to
help you. Additional details are listed below along with upcoming local
events. We are actively working to provide additional benefits to you,
our members. We have been able to increase our online educational offerings
with our partnership with SolutionQ. We are working on similar agreements
with other organizations. We are also working to increase the content
on our website to provide additional resources to our members. If you
have suggestions, please feel free to let us know. You can stop by our
booth at HIMSS, participate in our annual membership survey that occurs
each spring or drop us an email. We want to hear from you
Sue
Houston, PMP
Healthcare
SIG President
We
Are at HIMSS 2008: Stop By, Meet Members, Participate
For
all those attending HIMSS
2008 in Orlando, join us and fellow project managers at any of the
following:
- Stop by our booth #13 in Lobby C open all day hosted by the board and other members: introduce yourself, exchange something you learned at the conference, and enter your name in a raffle.
- Join us for the pre-conference workshop: The Five "Rights" of Project Management: Effective Tools for Streamlining Project Implementations. This is event #202 on page 17 of the conference brochure
- Join
us for a workshop with HIMSS PM SIG on Tuesday from 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
to discuss the latest topics on project management in healthcare. Room
303C. Please
send us business
topics that you would like to discuss at this meeting. - Remember
to take advantage of the PMI discount when you register to attend the
conference.
We look forward to seeing you there. Meanwhile, contact our Director of Events with any questions.
a Series of Live Webinars
Presenter: Kiron D. Bondale, PMP, MBA - Solution Q Inc.
Date:
March 25 or March 26· 2 PM EST
Cost: Free to Healthcare SIG members
PDUs: PMPs earn 1 PDU.
The Healthcare SIG and Solution Q have teamed-up to deliver a series of three webinars offered over the next few months. The next webinar offered in this series is Practical Project Risk Management.
Risks exist on projects because by definition, projects possess uncertainty. Organizations that ignore risks experience reduced project success rates due to the wasted effort and delays that result from dealing with issues.
Risk management methodologies address this challenge but tend to be too theoretical or require significant process discipline or historical data to be practical.
During this webinar you will learn practical, lightweight best practices for managing risks throughout a project's lifecycle.
Benefits of managing risks through this approach include:
Improved
project predictability
Improved ROI for your overall portfolio
Quantification of cost & schedule contingencies
Reduced effort spent resolving project issues
Solution
Q offers a variety of complimentary webinars focusing on Project Portfolio
Management (PPM). Learn tips and tricks, best practices and strategies
from experienced professionals in project management. View
the list of February webinars>
| Upcoming Healthcare SIG Webinars from Solution Q | |
| February | HIMSS/PMI Project Management Workshop |
| March | Practical Project Risk Management |
| April | Human Resource Capacity Planning |
| May | Seven Secrets of Successful PMOs |
| June | IT Governance |
| July | Implementing
a Project Portfolio Management Initiative: Where do you start, technology or process? |
| August | How to Prioritize Projects When Each One is Critical |
March 28, 2008, Oklahoma City, OK
Healthcare Trade Faire and Regional Conference
May
2, 2008, Portsmouth, NH
Project
Management in Healthcare Conference
Hosted by PMI & New England HIMSS.
May 5, 2008, Edison, NJ
Chapter Annual
Symposium Exponential Project Management - PMBOK and Beyond!
August 12, 2008, Waltham, MA
Biotech project management
We are looking for speakers. Contact the Director
of Events for details.
Want
to see more local events in your area?
Volunteer to the local events committee to promote project management
in healthcare within your
local PMI, HIMSS, or other groups. You will be responsible to network,
organize, and market our
SIG within your local community events. Contact the Director
of Events for details.
The Healthcare SIG is building a library of templates for its members. By submitting a template you can show off your creativity, get feedback, and help others be more productive. Possible examples of templates include: Implementation of Electronic Medical Records, Computer Literacy Training, and Creating a Project Management Office.
Please make sure your file:
- Is created in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, or Publisher 2007.
- Is less than 2 MB in size.
- Does not contain personal information or objectionable content.
- Contains only materials that you own or have permission to use
Ready
to share? Submit
your template to education@pmihealthcare.org.
Upon
receipt, templates will be reviewed by a committee prior to posting.
Industry
News
Balancing
Labor Costs and Productivity with Quality Care Seminar - February 14,
2008
Join
us for this seminar to hear first-hand how Norton Healthcare is able to
effectively balance labor costs and productivity with quality care through
the use of innovative workforce management technologies. Register
today>
AIIM International Expo and Conference - March 3-6, 2008
AIIM 2008 will provide you with methods
to capture, manage, share, and store documents and digital content to
support business processes, comply with governmental regulations, drive
down costs, and gain the competitive edge technologies needed to put intelligence
behind your information.
Register
today>
New Publication on Trends in Patient Safety Technologies
Trends in Patient Safety Technologies provides an
inside look at the challenges facing healthcare organizations as they
work to improve patient safety and quality outcomes. Order
your copy>
Take the 2008 CIO Survey
The
2008 Health Data Management CIO Survey focuses on the opinions of CIOs
and other key decision makers at health care organizations. It provides
our magazine with valuable information about what your information needs
are and where we should focus our editorial coverage over the next year.
Take
the survey now>
New
Book on Change Management
Using a Change Management Approach to Implement IT Programs
by Henry Hornstein.
Healthcare
Project Management Jobs
Healthcare
IT Project Manager
Vitalize Consulting Solutions, Inc.
is seeking candidates (preferably clinicians) with solid project management
experience, leading enterprise wide CLINICAL software implementation projects
in the healthcare (Provider) market. View
all jobs at this company.
Interested
in posting a position?
If you would like to post a position description in HealthcareSpeaks,
please email information to projects@pmihealthcare.org.
