STRONG AND CONSISTENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSURES A SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION

Ventures in Healthcare helps to preserve the client's contractual rights, anticipate conversion, integration and operational challenges, maintain schedules, and minimize adverse impact.

A single point of contact, reporting to an organizational leader and empowered to assign tasks to implementation team members and direct the completion of those tasks, is key to a successful implementation.

Ventures in Healthcare's experience in project management helps to assure a successful outcome and an on-time go-live.

• Oversee and stay ahead of the project plan, anticipating issues before they are due so that impediments to timely task completion are minimized
• Assign tasks to project participants, track progress of all outstanding deliverables
• Planning convening and providing all documentation for weekly implementation committee status meetings
• Convening regular senior executive level steering committee meetings including presentation of formal status report (senior leadership participation and buy-in is critical!)
• Manage vendor relationship; escalate unresolved issues within the vendor organization
• Coordinate development and delivery of interfaces, vendor contracted software customizations and conversions
• Coordinate simultaneous efforts of the following sub-groups: Department(s) installing applications, IT Applications group, IT Infrastructure group, IT Interface group, and vendor
• Assess Hospital resource requirements to assure that planned tasks are accomplished within the assigned timeframes; escalate resource concerns within the Hospital
• Establish trainer and end-user training teams; provide oversight to training activities
• Provide oversight to policy and procedure revisions to accommodate new system
• Provide input to workflow redesign processes
• Structure unit, application, and integrated testing