Health Care Project Management

Research Assignment Two

Projects within the healthcare sector can be large or small
involving one or more persons. Depending on the project it can take days,
months or a year to complete. Below are examples of projects in various
contexts.  From the examples of projects list in the healthcare industry,
you are to do to the following:

• Choose
  a healthcare project example, answer and discuss the following:
  • Who are the key participants?
  • What are the expected key outcomes and benefits of the
    project?
  • What are the resources needed?
  • Timeline for implementation?
  • What are possible risks associated with the project?

       (Use the key
phases of project management as a guideline)

•  
  • Assume that the project has an expected total duration of 25
    days, but several optimistic employees feel that it can be completed in as
    little as 18 days, while others expect it to take nearly 40 days.  Using
    program evaluations and review technique calculations, what is the project
    duration to be used in project Gantt charts and other tracking tools? (This
    is hypothetical for any of the projects)

Health Care Project Management Topics in Various Contexts

1.   
Patient/Health Consumer Level

 • A family makes modifications to their home to
accommodate a handicapped family member

• A diabetic initiates a structured self-management program

2.   
Sole Providers and Physician Groups

• A physician’s office implements an electronic health
record system

• A physician group modifies it billing system to meet
revised International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code sets used to report
diagnoses and inpatient procedures

3.   
Community Clinics

• A community health centers brings federally certified
moderate complexity lab testing in house to expedite access to test results and
minimize the cost of lab testing for uninsured patients

Hospital/ Hospital Departments:

• A community hospital launches a women’s healthcare service
line

• A university hospital designs and constructs a new
neurology clinic

• A hospital develops a physician evaluation program in
alignment with new standards

• An emergency department develops a formal process for
notifying patients of sexually transmitted disease test results in advance of
Department of Health notification

• A hospital develops a program to reduce readmission rates
by identifying and monitoring high-risk patient discharges

4.   
Health Networks

• A collection of health care providers forms an accountable
care organization

• A hospital network begins a telemedicine service

Health Research:

• A research team performs an evaluation of a state health
information exchange 

• A cancer center develops an internship program for pre-med
students to assist with research studies

• A software company develops a smart phone application to
assist diabetics with self-management

• A team of medical researchers conducts a clinical trial of
a new medical device

5.   
Payers

• A health insurance company establishes a medical call
center and Web site to help subscribers make decisions regarding medical care
options

6.   
Government and Public Health

• A developing country’s health department launches a
maternal and child wellness program

• The state public health department develops and launches
an immunization campaign

• A local health agency works with the public health
department to develop an educational course to train the public health
workforce and other first responders to improve their capacity to respond and
provide essential services for natural disasters and bio-terrorists situations

7.   
Not for Profit/Community Health

• A medically supervised camp program for overweight
adolescents creates a summer program

• A not-for-profit hospital conducts a community assessment
to determine how to target community benefit activities

 • A tobacco control charity designs and executes a
smoking cessation campaign

• A kidney disease foundation holds a 10K race event

• A health research funding agency designs and launches a
new grant program

8.   
Healthcare
Vendor/Consulting/Auditing

• A consulting company designs and implements a dashboard
form a hospital to evaluate status and results by department

• A medical supply and distribution company installs new
distribution software that will facilitate just in time inventory levels

• An audit team conducts an audit of a health organization

• A health care consulting company develops a workforce
needs assessment tool that hospitals use to optimize and plan for clinical
workforce needs

(Swhalbe, 2013, An Introduction to Project Health Management)

Requirements:  Provide a detailed analysis using APA format-title page,
references and in-text citations.  Submit the assignment in Blackboard as
a Word document. 

Length requirement:  minimum 500 words. This does not
include the title page and reference list.

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