title: Managing non-technical factors in healthcare IT projects.
abstract: The implementation of IT within any healthcare organization is a demanding and intense exercise in the management of both technical (systemic) and non-technical (social) influences and factors, and the project process is often fraught with unforeseen obstacles or impediments to success. Project success depends as much on a specific understanding of the non-technical project impediments such as conflicting personalities and corporate culture as it does on the performance of the applied technology or the viability of the implementation process itself.
authors.affiliation: East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Rosenthal
mesh_terms: D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007318:Inservice Training; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques; D016730:Program Development; D014481:United States