Week 4 - Discussion 1

[Date of Submission]Week 4 - Discussion 1

Introduction

In decisions concerning to the health care projects, an active role is being taken by Americans. To support consumers in their care decision-making, new tools and information are being developed. The management of stakeholders is one of the most daunting problems faced by healthcare projects. Within a certain healthcare project, care area or department, even across the entire organization or along service lines, like, cardiology, variability or process issues around a particular piece of technology might exists in health care. Clinical procedures, like, intensive care unit protocols or medication administration or workflow and registration and operational processes, like, billing, are might related to potential six sigma projects.

Within a health care organization, there are some basic guidelines for six sigma project selection while the organization undoubtedly has many stakeholders to satisfy and multiple priorities that must be kept in balance and weighed. This paper addresses the key characteristics that must be considered while selecting project management tools for a healthcare organization.

Discussion

The project is driven by the knowledge about the critical to quality elements and customer and which must be the first consideration, when prioritizing and reviewing the opportunities in an organization. Depending on the process being reviewed, other stakeholder, department manager, administration, nursing staff, physician or patients, can be the customer in a health care project (Kristianson & Et.al, 2009). While each health care organization has specific issues and needs to fulfill, personal connection for the project leader, inclusion of a black or green belt working within the project area, alignment with strategic initiatives and critical hospital issues, feasibility from a data standpoint and a resource, linkage with other projects for a combined effect, provision of visible benefits for the customer, clearly defined goals and unambiguous parameters, are the common ...