Case study: incorporating project management skills in the design of a clinical research patient management system.
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.
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Department of Health Information Management, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA.
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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