Implementing organizational change can be a difficult process. Managers continue to search for innovative methods to implement improvement initiatives. Project management, a framework that has been used to successfully guide project implementation in several business sectors, is now also being employed in healthcare to implement large-scale change. This article provides healthcare managers with an overview of project management and a description of how it can be used to implement integrated health information systems successfully.
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