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Skills for Healthcare Project Management

A proven project methodology for healthcare

Follow a healthcare project from initial planning meetings with administrators and physicians through scheduling, executing, problem solving, and reporting status.

Managing Healthcare Projects $49.95

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"Had immediately useful strategies that helped me manage my projects and opened some new perspectives on PM approaches." Thomas Raushenbush

Contents & Sample Pages

Project Planning

  • Negotiating techniques
  • Uncovering requirements
  • Crafting the WBS

Read about conducting project planning meetings with administrators and physicians with examples of exactly how to ask questions of these stakeholders, define your scope and requirements, following a proven methodology

Advanced Techniques

  • Risk management
  • Estimating time & cost
  • Motivating your team

Read about and see examples of how to apply advanced techniques to your projects such as risk analysis, work packaging, and estimating

MS Project

  • Optimized schedules
  • Fine-tuning
  • Spotting problems early

You learn how to use MS Project and make your project management more effective and track progress efficiently

Templates

  • Work packages
  • WBS decomposition
  • Risk analysis

Clear instructions and diagrams for techniques with templates you can use

The book includes a chapter on managing information technology resources along with technicians, nurses, patient service staff, physicians, administrative and billing personnel. You'll learn the project lifecycle from strategic planning, scope definition, budgeting, resource scheduling, contract negotiations, and process improvement. It covers work estimating, developing high-performance team cultures, tracking/reporting progress and performing variance analysis. Includes 100's of illustrations and step-by-step instructions for Microsoft Project 2002®. 214 pages, 11 by 8½, soft cover spiral-bound.