Overview
Table of contents
PART 1 – Introduction
Chapter 1. Background
1. Healthcare challenges today
2. Problems with the solution
3. HIT Project Management (Definitions, Professional Organizations, Standards)
4. About this book
Chapter 2. Project, Technology and Change Management Definitions
1. Uses the following PMI knowledge areas for all projects regardless of project or industry type (e.g., healthcare IT, construction, event planning): *Integration, *Scope, *Time, *Cost, *Quality, *Human Resources, *Communication, *Risk, *Procurement
2. Uses the knowledge areas derived from IEEE for technology projects only: *Software Requirements, *System Infrastructure, *Security, *Conversion, *Interface, *Software Design, *Configuration, *Test, *Transition, *Support
3. Uses the change management knowledge areas for all projects: *Vision, *Leadership, *Consensus, *Training, *Process Imprvmt
PART 2 – Integrating the Three Management Disciplines
Chapter 3. PMBOK Knowledge Areas
(Integration, Scope, Time, Costs, Quality, Hume Resources, Communications, Risk, and Procurement Knowledge areas)
Chapter 4. IEEE Software Engineering Knowledge Areas
(Software, System Infrastructure, Security, Conversion, Interface, Software Design, Configuration, Test, Transition, and Support Knowledge areas)
Chapter 5. Change Management Knowledge Areas
(Vision, Leadership, Consensus, Training, and Process Improvement Knowledge areas)
PART 3 – PMI Project Process Groups
Chapter 6. Project initiation
1. Case Study
2. Definition of Project Initiation (Project, Technology, and Change Management)
Chapter 7. Project Planning
(Project, Technology, and Change Management)
Chapter 8. Project Execution
(Project, Technology, and Change Management)
Chapter 9. Project Control
(Project, Technology, and Change Management)
Chapter 10. Project Closing
PART 4 – Appendices
Glossary
Examples of project outputs referencing additional resources on book website
Author comments
Scott Coplan, PMP, is a project manager, an educator, author, and speaker on project management best practices. He is the founder and president of COPLAN AND COMPANY, a system acquisition project management software and services consulting firm with offices in Seattle and Louisiana. Scott helped Milwaukee Children’s Hospital build their HMO and managed the implementation of 15 HIT applications across three Los Angeles County, California hospitals. He also holds a faculty position at the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he teaches project management for health care information technology.
David Masuda, M.D. (Seattle, WA), a physician and educator, developed and delivered courses in clinical care and applied clinical informatics in Certificate, Masters, and Doctoral Programs in health administration, medicine, and nursing during the past 10 years. He continues to develop distance-learning approaches to higher education.
