Change Management

ORGANIZATIONAL READINESS ASSESSMENT

Clinical Information System program depend on introducing large scale clinical and business change across the entire healthcare organization.  However introducing change is not a simple matter and depends on the strength of the program team and the infrastructure within the organization having the ability to accept and promote change.

Before investing in your Clinical and Business Change functional workstream it is important that you have an independent assessment of the readiness and maturity of your organization including:

• Leadership and vision
• Operational management commitment
• Requirements and benefits
• Financial management
• Governance
• Accountability
• Capacity and capability

Ideal Health IT works closely with you to undertake an Organizational Change Readiness Assessment from which you will gain:

• A clear view of the organization’s ability to adopt change
• A plan to improve change readiness sufficiently to support your program
• A high level strategy for implementing change within the organization
• An analysis of the stakeholders and their position on the change required for the program to succeed

Ideal Health IT has extensive Clinical and Business Change capability and will provide one of our team specialists to perform the assessment by engaging with program and operational staff.  The activities carried out by Ideal Health IT would include:

• an audit of clinical and business roles, processes and responsibilities
• a map of organizational and operational units
• analysis of communications infrastructure
• assessment of the maturity of the organization business and clinical process management

By engaging with Ideal Health IT at this stage of your program you will significantly improve the likelihood of a successful implementation.  You will be able to take steps early in the program to increase the ease and speed with which change is adopted thereby avoiding the costs associated with resistance and achieving more of the benefits sooner.

Ideal Health IT provides individually customized solutions to assist Healthcare organizations with effective Clinical and Business Change and other functional workstreams in a systems implementation program.  We also provide solutions focusing on overall Service Improvement, restructuring and cost savings.

 

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