Making Information Technology Work: Maximizing the Benefits for Health Care Organizations

A book for senior executives, managers and clinicians that covers the before, during and after stages of a health care information technology (IT) project and provides guidance on how projects can be successfully managed. It shows readers how to assess IT project value before approval, monitor whether projects are on-time and on-budget, and measure performance after implementation. Case studies and effective project management tools and techniques help readers maximize project benefits.

Kropf and Scalzi take a three-part approach that makes it easy for non-IT executives and managers to assess a project s development from start to finish.

Guy Scalzi, MBA, is Executive VP of Veloz Global Solutions. From 1999 to 2006, he was Senior VP and Managing Director of FCG s Group Management Services business. He has held the position of CIO at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York/Cornell Medical Center, and the Hospital for Joint Diseases, a division of New York University Medical Center. He was also a hospital ­administrator in New York City at St. Vincent s Medical Center, Bellevue Hospital, and Montefiore/Einstein Medical Center for 14 years.