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Planning With Care
There is an epidemic in healthcare: too many projects are executed without appropriate planning. Here is a detailed planning guide, developed by seasoned project leaders, to increase your chances of success on healthcare software implementations. It can also be used to help build a framework around a PMO methodology.
All too often, healthcare software implementations are over budget, late, lacking in functionality or ultimately never delivered — not because they are intrinsically bad projects, but mainly because of poor upfront planning. Project participants become anxious to begin work, organizational leaders want quick return on investment, and resources are often limited due to conflicting priorities. It is estimated that 78 percent of projects fail to meet their original objectives. You can improve these statistics. The time spent on project planning will directly yield a more successful project outcome.
How many projects can you look back on and say, if I had to do this all over again, I would have definitely planned it differently? Did the organization’s leaders understand the importance of project planning? Despite the scope of the project, physician and administrative leadership must support and encourage the project team to spend time planning the project appropriately. Although this seems to be a very basic concept, it is surprising how many projects are executed …
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