Healthcare Information Technology Project Failures and Best

¶ … healthcare information technology project failures and best practices recovery. It highlights factors that are responsible for such failures including lack of direction, clarity of goals, consistent system and application plans. It also investigates best practices that can mitigate these failures in the health care system. The paper lists the best interventions as; first, management's commitment to the goals and objectives of the projects, second, management's definition of a series of consistent analytics, KPIs and metrics of performance that increase collaboration across diverse business units.

The paper examines the use of project metrics and portfolio management in sustainable, scalable and reliable governance frameworks and strategies in the management of information technology projects. Lastly the paper assesses government intervention in healthcare. It highlights both federal and state government's involvements in the healthcare in a bid to make healthcare accessible through new programs. It also analyses the cost implications of these programs as well as the complexity of managing them.

It briefly looks at the governments legislative agenda in healthcare terming the government's role as necessary intrusion yet unrealistic. Introduction The motivation behind the introduction and the use of information technology in health care is the ability to systematically manage the information systems of healthcare organizations. Many healthcare organizations, small and medium are faced with lack of systematic information management.

In addition, many organizations in the health care sector are becoming more specialized and structured therefore needing an improved system in order to adapt to changes in social and financial conditions. Therefore, the more the healthcare sector becomes more complex the more significant it is for organizations to upgrade their ability to analysis and decision support methods for their problem-solving (Highsmith, 2000). However, a major challenge that many of these healthcare organizations face is the implementation of the information systems.

These organizations most of which are bound to rely on information systems to attain their objectives, healthcare management, the major challenge is cost. Cost in installation, management and maintenance as well as the combination of highly complex application, systems and platform trade-offs, along with the need for continual government compliance makes information systems in healthcare one of the most difficult areas to attain best practices in of any IT area (Le Rouge, De Leo, 2010).

Conclusion In order to cub the potential failure in implementation of information technology projects, senior management need to show deep commitment so as to influence the entire organization in order for IM or IT systems to succeed. This will give direction and increase focus on management of these projects as well as ensuring consistency in best project management practices. Moreover,.