HealthsystemCIO.com July 13, 2021
In the first of this two-part series, the ‘House of Healthcare Tour’ covered the Administrative, Academic/Education, and Research areas. Below, we’ll get into the patient care realm.
The Clinical Enterprise Room
Walking from the Research Enterprise to the Clinical Enterprise, you’ll notice some sudden, palpable cultural changes:
- The Clinical Enterprise is largely open-for-business 24/7, so many of the staff are used to working in shifts and on holidays.
- Patient safety is a constant focus of the workers here.
- The fault tolerance is suddenly a lot lower, requiring higher standards for hiring, budgeting, training, and implementing new tools.
- Because it never gets to shut down for maintenance, and because of the low fault-tolerance, both change management and project management are...