Healthcare Informatics

Everything we do now is based on the concept of 'Managing By Projects' or MBP, especially in health sector. In this scenario, it is absolutely essential to equip ourselves with knowledge of project management and its linkages with healthcare. Winds of rapid globalisation and phenomenal transformation of the entire world to emerge as a single global village have made organisations and societies to become 'projectised'... Project Management (PM) is one of the fastest growing disciplines across the world. Very recently, Fortune magazine rated project management as the most preferred career choice among professionals. In order to enhance 'knowledge value' irrespective of the discipline one is associated with (such as - medicine, law, engineering, software, construction, consulting etc.) it is important to have a clear understanding of principles and practices of project management. A project is a vision, a need, a dream or a strategy which need to be converted to re...

Healthcare Information Technology The similar and the different around the World Research conducted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS, and its market research subsidiary HIMSS Analytics, suggests that the benefits of information technology and management systems transcend from local healthcare needs to global settings. In 2007, HIMSS conducted research with healthcare executives in the US, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. The US Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey provides insight to the perspectives of American health IT executives. 1  While the first HIMSS EMEA Annual Leadership Survey, 2  sponsored by CISCO, surveyed senior executives throughout the healthcare organisation, including staff members in IT, finance, clinical areas and executive officers. Respondents to both of these surveys were most likely to identify improving quality of care / patient safety as a top business issue that will impact healthcare in the next two years. Follo...