Project Management in Health IT Flashcards
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A clinical informatics PM must communicate a go-live delay to clinical staff, IT teams, and hospital leadership. Which communication principle is MOST important?
Answer: Tailor the message content and format to each audience's needs and concerns
Effective communication requires tailoring messages to each audience — clinical staff need workflow impact details, while leadership needs business and financial implications.
During the planning phase of a Health IT project, which tool is BEST suited for identifying which tasks must be completed before others can begin?
Answer: Precedence diagramming method (PDM)
The precedence diagramming method (PDM) captures finish-to-start and other logical dependencies between project activities.
A Health IT PM is closing a project. Which activity is MOST important to complete before formally closing?
Answer: Obtaining formal acceptance of deliverables from the project sponsor
Formal sponsor acceptance of deliverables confirms that all work has been completed to satisfaction and is the key milestone for project closure.
Which Health IT project risk would be BEST addressed through a risk transfer strategy?
Answer: Data breach during migration covered by cyber insurance
Cyber liability insurance transfers the financial risk of a data breach to the insurer, making it a textbook risk transfer strategy.
A PM using Agile for a clinical decision support project wants to prioritize the backlog. Which framework is MOST commonly used?
Answer: MoSCoW prioritization
MoSCoW (Must have, Should have, Could have, Won't have) is a widely used Agile backlog prioritization framework that aligns features with business value.
Which Health IT project management metric measures the amount of work remaining relative to what was planned at this point in the project?
Answer: Schedule variance (SV)
Schedule variance (SV = EV - PV) measures the difference between work accomplished and work planned, directly quantifying schedule deviation.
A Health IT project team is using a Kanban board. Which situation signals that the team's work-in-progress (WIP) limit is being exceeded?
Answer: More tasks are in the 'In Progress' column than the defined WIP limit allows
A WIP limit defines the maximum number of tasks in progress simultaneously; exceeding it signals overloading and is a key Kanban metric to monitor.