McGraw-Hill Education (Asia)

Project Management for Healthcare Information Technology

Authors: Scott Coplan, David Masuda
ISBN: 9780071740531 / 0071740538
©2011 | 1st Edition | 288 pages | Paperback
Pub Date: FEB-11
Price: US$ 69.95
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Proven strategies for establishing healthcare information technology (HIT) projects, and keeping them running successfully

Co-written by a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and an MD, Project Management for Healthcare Information Technology demonstrates how to integrate project management principles with HIT to achieve success. The book discusses the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) process groups and knowledge areas and explains how they apply to healthcare. This in-depth guide also goes beyond the PMBOK to the areas of technology and change management to assure that healthcare projects are started properly, are successful, and can be maintained.

Project Management for Healthcare Information Technology

• Written authors who teach a course on Project Management for Healthcare Information Technology and work with more than 5,000 hospitals on this topic
• Introduces the PMBOK knowledge areas—scope, schedule, cost, quality, HR, communications, risk, etc. in relation to healthcare
• Explains how the PMBOK process groups—initiation, planning, execution, control, and closing—apply to healthcare
• Incorporates the additional areas of technology and change management to ensure that the project is successful
• Uses a fictitious ambulatory electronic medical record (EHR) implementation as a case study
• Includes “lessons learned” and “knowledge checks” throughout the book to reinforce the material covered

About the Authors

Scott Coplan (Seattle, WA), PMP, is a project manager, as well as an educator, author and speaker in 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 focuses on system acquisition projects and FOUR, a web-based tool for buying and implementing systems developed and licensed by COPLAN AND COMPANY.

 Scott has vast experience in both project management and healthcare. He helped Milwaukee Children’s Hospital build their HMO, supported Peace Health‘s acquisition of an HMO, and supported the requirements definition for and acquisition of a claims processing system. Scott also managed the implementation of 15 HIT applications across three Los Angeles County, California hospitals. Recently he managed the EMR, scheduling and pharmacy requirements definition, acquisition and implementation planning for an oncology outpatient services company with centers located nationwide.

Scott has 30 years experience providing Information Technology (IT) project management services involving planning, definition, acquisition and implementation. Scott’s project management success includes transferring a consistent approach for developing and managing projects that achieves strategic organizational objectives. Formerly with Touche Ross, Booz Allen and Hamilton, and Battelle Memorial Institute, Scott holds an MPA from the University of Washington and a BA from Beloit College. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP®), he is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), HIMSS Enterprise Information Systems and Healthcare Information Exchange Steering Committees and Project Management Institute. Scott 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 (Seattle, WA), M.D., is a physician and educator. He practiced radiology for 15 years before completing a Master’s degree in Administrative Medicine and a post-doctoral fellowship in applied clinical informatics at the University of Washington. David developed and delivered courses in clinical care and applied clinical informatics in Certificate, Masters and Doctoral Programs across programs in health administration, medicine and nursing during the past ten years. He also continues to develop distance-learning approaches to higher education.

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