title: Case study: incorporating project management skills in the design of a clinical research patient management system.
abstract: Faced with the problem of managing over 3,000 records with no systematic location and retrieval mechanism, a project management team relied on health information management skills, including those of project management, data modeling, and records management, to plan and implement an effective system for managing patient data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Information Management, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carroll-Barefield
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D003628:Database Management Systems; D005845:Georgia; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010865:Pilot Projects; D010934:Planning Techniques; D012106:Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012577:Schools, Medical