Too often project “lessons learned” are exclusively seen as an opportunity to review our mistakes so we can avoid them in the future. However, they can also serve as an opportunity for celebration and a chance to identify “repeatable wins.”
The enterprise Obix fetal monitoring systems forklift upgrade project has been one of those projects where we can celebrate and learn from exactly those types of repeatable wins, with 30 individual successful site go-lives.
Caregivers from site after site, as well as leadership and the vendor, have commented how easy and painless this complex upgrade went. They have cited great coordination, low drama, and few surprises!
Our repeatable wins are:
- Strong support and governance from the Women’s and Children’s Institute
- Great vendor support with consistent resources
- A consistent, passionate, multi-disciplinary PSJH project team (Epic-Stork, Interfaces, Server, PMs, and Application Analysts)
- Excellent communication
- Engaged and prepared departments
- Extensive planning before the first site was ever touched
- And, perhaps most important, when caregivers know the work really matters and is appreciated, they go the extra mile to ensure it is done right.
Kudos to all involved across IS for the work done on this project and all you do in support of our clinicians and the patients they serve.
Contact
Have questions about Obix or what made this particular upgrade project so successful? Please contact Rudy Neyenhuis, Director, Clinical Applications.