Leadership Orientation
The first integrated gathering at CHP was a leadership
workshop conducted by the hospital leadership
and the CPOE firm. The goal of the workshop
was to provide background on information technology
integration, to discuss common problems related
to information technology changes, and to allow participants
to organize their thoughts regarding the
goals of CPOE implementation. The workshop message
centered on the correlation between implementation
success and change management. The facilitators
cautioned leaders not to focus only on
technology-centered changes. The 3 goals of this session
were for participants (1) to articulate goals and
objectives that this project would enable; (2) to identify
challenges or lessons learned from recent enterprise-wide
information technology changes; and (3)
to identify design activities required for transformation.
Major stakeholders used this exercise to focus
the agenda and to form a committee structure. This
type of meeting was ceremonial in some ways, but it
served as an identifiable starting point for the multidisciplinary
team.