Case Study: Incorporating Project Management Skills in the Design of a Clinical Research Patient Management System

Abstract

Faced with the problem of managing over 3,000 records with no systematic location and retrieval mechanism, a project management team relied on health information management skills, including those of project management, data modeling, and records management, to plan and implement an effective system for managing patient data.

Creation of Clinical Research Databases in the 21st Century: A Practical Algorithm for HIPAA Compliance

“…The Veterans Affairs health system represents the largest single electronic patient record in the United States and has recently been evaluating the implications of combining regional datasets into a single accessible record under the new HIPAA guidelines [20]. A number of institutions have reported previously upon the issues relating to database access, maintenance, and privacy considerations, with a unifying theme that privacy regulations hamper effective use of these data by researchers [21][22][23][24].…”

Project management and action research: two sides of the same coin?

“…As such, a plethora of literature is available that defines and takes the reader through these fundamental process and steps of successful project management (PM) (i.e. Lenz, 1999; Baguley, 1999; Milliken, 2000; Spath, 2001; Carroll‐Barefield and Smith, 2001; Hefner and Malcolm, 2002; Cleland and Ireland, 2002; Lock, 2003).…”