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Foundation Activities

The SIG has accomplished the following activities:

• Appointed a 5-7 person advisory board with representatives from every region in the state
• Recruited Health Care subject area speakers for two PMI monthly meetings in the Portland area. We intend to recruit at least one speaker for the Chapter monthly meetings each year.
• Developed health care communities of interest which are included in the SIG's Best Practice Web page
• Developed and administered a survey to determine the challenges and special needs of  Maine’s health care professionals. The survey participants were located in six institutions situated in the diverse regions of the state. The Survey Questions were as follows:

  Survey Questions:

  1. As a HC professional what is your biggest workplace challenge?

  2. What do you perceive as the most valuable service the HC Sig can provide?

  3. Which of the five UNE PM courses is the most valuable?

  4. What HC project should the SIG support as a community service project?

The survey results are available for review (click here for the survey results)

• We assisted the University of New England's College of Health Professions to develop a five course Health Care Project Management Certificate program - this program is the first of its kind in the country - see this web page for the program description at www.une.edu/chp/cpe/hcpm.asp The program is now fully developed - courses can be taken at UNE's Westbrook Campus in Portland - let us know if your institution desires to host an on site program.
• Gathered a library of Healthcare Project Management books, articles, DVDs, movies and software. The library is housed at the College of Health Care Professions at the University of New England. Books can be borrowed with proper identification (we'll trust you to bring them back!) see the listing of books available and the directions to UNE at http://www.pmimaine.org/Public01/library_Pub.php
• We choose HealthInfonet’s implementation of a statewide EHR project as the Chapter’s  Health Care community service project. To date we have helped them recruit a project manager and UNE trained the Team Leaders from the Phase One EHR Implementation in project management best practices. These team leaders represented the five major hospitals in Maine and one large physician’s practice. UNE plans on making training services available to the Team Leaders representing the remaining four phases.