The rapid growth of software applications within healthcare organizations has made it essential to have defined methodologies and formal processes for the management of the entire Information Technology (IT) portfolio. Utilizing a portfolio management framework throughout an application’s lifecycle will provide the necessary structure to ensure that all new applications are properly evaluated, and, once implemented, remain relevant while continuing to meet organizational requirements. While an organization may have a few large "organization-wide" systems such as the Electronic Health Record (EHR), lab or radiology systems, they also have a large quantity of other clinical, administrative, and research systems. Some larger organizations now have hundreds of software applications to support and manage. The IT staff must be able to implement new requests while still maintaining the current application portfolio. Utilizing a standard repeatable process will help to manage these large portfolios of software applications. This book reviews the management of applications throughout their lifecycle, from initial request through disposition. Best practices dictate that every newly requested application undergoes analysis followed by an approval decision from the organization’s governance committee. The initial implementation project must include activities to prepare for ongoing support while ensuring the application is compliant with all security, privacy, and architecture requirements. An application spends years in operations and maintenance where changes occur regularly through configuration and release management, or additional projects. The cycle continues until disposition. Understanding when to dispose of an application is just as important as deciding when to implement a new one. A defined process for disposing of an application ensures all parts are properly removed or destroyed.

Effective Lifecycle Management of Healthcare Applications (HIMSS Book Series)

Business & Money

Houston, Susan

Kennedy, Ryan

Economics

CRC-Press

Effective Lifecycle Management of Healthcare Applications: Utilizing a Portfolio Framework (HIMSS Book Series)

Productivity Press

Variational problems are part of our classical cultural heritage. The book gives an introduction to variational methods and presents on overview of areas of current research in this field. Particular topics included are the direct methods including lower semi-continuity results, the compensated compactness method, the concentration compactness method, Ekeland's variational principle, and duality methods or minimax methods, including the mountain pass theorems, index theory, perturbation theory, linking and extensions of these techniques to non-differentiable functionals and functionals defined on convex sets - and limit cases. All results are illustrated by specific examples, involving Hamiltonian systems, non-linear elliptic equations and systems, and non-linear evolution problems. These examples often represent the current state of the art in their fields and open perspective for further research. Special emphasis is laid on limit cases of the Palais-Smale condition.

Project Management for Healthcare Informatics

Science & Math

Bove, Lisa Anne

Mathematics

Springer

Through its use of real clinical examples, this book provides an explanation of the project management process tailored for nurses. It first describes, in detail, the project management process along with its relationship to the phases of the project life cycle. Coverage includes the tools available to successfully complete each phase of the project management process and advance the project life cycle. With the aid of case studies and project examples, the book then examines how to apply these principles in the day-to-day work of the nurse, whether manager, staff nurse, educator, researcher, or informatician.

Project Management for Healthcare Informatics (Health Informatics)

Computers & Technology

Nineteenth-century educational reformers were fond of an agricultural metaphor when it came to the provision of more and better schooling: even good land, they argued, had to be cultiated; othersie noxious weeds sprang up. In this study of education in Ontario from the establishment of Upper Canada to the end of Egerton Ryerson's career as chief superintendent of schools in 1876, Susan Houston and Alison Prentice explore the roots of the provincial public school system, set up to instill a work ethic and moral discipline appropriate to the new society, as well as the beginnings of separate schools.
today the Ontario school system is once again the subject of intense and often bitter deabte. Many of the most contentious issues have deep and complex roots that go back to this era. Houston and Prentice tell the story of how Ontario came to have a universal school system of exceptional quality and shed valuable light on an area of current concern.

Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Ontario (Ontario Historical Studies Series)

History

Prentice, Alison

Americas

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Nineteenth-century educational reformers were fond of an agricultural metaphor when it came to the provision of more and better schooling: even good land, they argued, had to be cultiated; othersie noxious weeds sprang up. In this study of education in Ontario from the establishment of Upper Canada to the end of Egerton Ryerson's career as chief superintendent of schools in 1876, Susan Houston and Alison Prentice explore the roots of the provincial public school system, set up to instill a work ethic and moral discipline appropriate to the new society, as well as the beginnings of separate schools.today the Ontario school system is once again the subject of intense and often bitter deabte. Many of the most contentious issues have deep and complex roots that go back to this era. Houston and Prentice tell the story of how Ontario came to have a universal school system of exceptional quality and shed valuable light on an area of current concern.

Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Ontario (The Ontario)

University of Toronto Press

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