Elyse Nielsen's general musings on technology enhancing healthcare, best practices, and CF among other things.

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PMI Global Congress 2011 - North America Dallas Texas 3 months ago

This past week was an exciting week. I had my first opportunity to attend the PMI Global Congress in North America. Thanks to PMI for covering the conference fees and selecting our presentation on engaging leadership for the healthcare track....

Cherish the competitive edge 3 months ago

Remember the cavalier way of implementing a solution back in the good old days. In some manner, a request was approved for a new system. Instead of looking out for a canned commercial solution, there would be a meeting a...

IT Management Review - Eighth Edition 9 months ago

The time has come around again to post the Eighth Edition of the IT Management Review. As you know the IT Management Review is a sharing of the blog posts on Informaiton Technology Management. Mandy Chatsworth presents Seeing Green: Ideas...
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The Schedule Killer - Achieving Perfection 10 months ago

On projects and delivery there comes a time when you just need to move forward and get it out of the starting gate to the box. The ugly truth is that most corporations can't afford perfection and we need to...
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VMWare View and HIT Deployments 10 months ago

With the XOOM and the IPAD, the need to have end-user device agnostic deployments is rising. Long gone are the days of standardizing on Windows XP Desktops with IE 7. Today's Healthcare IT organizations need to have flexibility and approach...
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Know your Technical Debt Burden 11 months ago

If you work in IT, you have felt the joys of technical debt. Technical debt is the catch phrase that captures all that built up debt every time a solution is "good enough with a smidge of manual intervention". Often...

Ascertaining your current Email Systems and Application … 11 months ago

Congratulations, you have decided to take the plunge and investigate outsourcing your email system. Now is time to take a good frank look at what you currently have in-house for email, and the application dependencies upon the email system ....
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Developing Effective Work Relationships 11 months ago

As project managers we understand the art of influence. We understand the need to motivate and listen, and develop a working productive relationship with our colleagues. We collaborate with the team and find a way to make progress. Often this...
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Technologies to watch in 2011 11 months ago

A couple of months ago, Gartner placed out the new list of technologies to watch for 2011. Good news is there are some new ones, and some old ones. A couple have been dropped from last year's watch list. Without...
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Where is the Healthcare Cloud? 11 months ago

Once again we had a great HIMSS in Orlando. It was good to see everyone, as usual, I took the Wednesday opportunity to walk the vendor floor. One thing I noted was that the floor was missing "the-buzz" of Cloud...
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