Monthly Archives: April 2012
Engaging, Transforming, and Empowering Nurses Conference
I am happy to announce a conference in New York City. The sponsor is the Philippine Nursing Association of New York. Engaging, Transforming, and Empowering Nurses through Clinical Practice Education Research and Information Technology Program Description: Sweeping health care changes … Continue reading
220 Days Til Go-Live
It’s coming close, our go-live date. 220 days. Someone calculated the go-live date to the exact minute – 7 months, 14 hours, and so many minutes. I prefer counting the days instead of the months. How am I feeling? I … Continue reading
IEEE International Symposium
Consider submitting or attending this international symposium. The 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2012) will be held on 20-22 June 2012 at the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy. Go to http://www.cbms2012.org or http://www.facebook.com/CBMS2012 for … Continue reading
Creativity and Innovation in Project Management
Last Thursday, I was able to attend a project management webinar called Creativity and Innovation in Project Management. I heard about this webinar through my professional organization called ANIA- American Nursing Informatics Association, formerly called ANIA-CARING. The webinar was an … Continue reading
Creativity and Innovation in Projects Webinar
There is a free webinar today from The Lewis Institute entitled, “Creativity and Innovation in Project Management”. To sign up, click on this link. The webinar is 1 hour and will provide 1 PDU (professional development unit) for project management … Continue reading
A Two Phase Approach to Evaluate the Success of HIT Implementations – Part II
Last week I wrote about the first phase of system evaluation: project. This week I will write about the second phase: strategic. As an analyst, we are busy building the computerized medical system that I don’t even think about if … Continue reading
240 Days Til Go-Live
I haven’t written about the progress of my go-live in awhile. We are in Day 240/365. Progress to our software build is showing and the workflow sessions are all finished. The deadlines are looming. The workflow sessions are replaced by the Clinical Practice Model (CPM) … Continue reading
A Two-Phased Approach to Evaluate the Success of HIT Implementation (Part I)
I had the opportunity to listen to a webinar titled, ” A Two-Phased Approach to Evaluate the Success of HIT Implemation”, back in December 6, 2011. This webinar was sponsored by ANIA-CARING and the speakers were Patricia Sengstack, DNP, RN-BC, … Continue reading



