The CEO at Regional West required a seasoned IT professional with experience as a CIO and a Project Manager. The former CIO had left and the EHR project was halted until the vendor could demonstrate ability to meet the needs of the organization. The CEO wanted a “Road Map” for moving forward. His initial goal was to have the “where are we” assessment completed in one month.
There were numerous delays in the release of the EHR version that was to “solve all of our problems”. Regional West would not go forward with the implementation until we did a site visit. While waiting for the current vendor and evaluating two other vendor’s products and their “fit” with Regional West, other projects “reared their ugly heads” as well. Meaningful Use Stage II was on track. ICD-10 requirements were to be met with the new EHR, so new versions of systems that were to be replaced needed to be implemented. The aging infrastructure needed to be upgraded and new security features needed to be identified and implemented.
The presentation will focus on addressing these issues and more. We’ve taken some great steps in developing a PMO that fits the organization.
Stan Wiebe, PMP, MBA
Principal, Wiebe Consulting, LLC
Stan Wiebe started his healthcare care leadership career in the late 1970’s. He held progressive roles leading to Manager of Systems Support for Lutheran Health System (now part of Banner Health). He moved to Director of Information Technology in 1984 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Fargo, ND which became Meritcare Health System and is now part of Sanford Health.
In 1997, he moved to Minneapolis MN and held several consulting (project manager) roles before becoming CIO of Hennepin County Medical Center in 2001. Starting in 2005, he served an interim Site Director role for McKesson Provider technologies in their Outsourcing division in Hamilton Ontario Canada and as a Program Manager in Kingsport Tennessee.
He rescued a failed project for Dean Health Plan in Madison WI in 2008 before taking on the role of Program Manager for the EMR implementation at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul MN. When that project was completed he moved on to serve as a contract Implementation Project Manager for Healthland, a health care IT vendor whose target market is Critical Access and small community hospitals. He was taking the winter off and spending it in Arizona when called on to take the Interim CIO role at Regional West Health Services in Scottsbluff Nebraska.
Wiebe holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Minnesota State University Moorhead and an MBA from the same university. He completed his PMP (Project Management Professional) certification in 2005. He is currently a member of PMI (Project Management Institute) and HIMSS (Health Information and Management Systems Society) and held a membership in CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives).
Stan can be reached at Stan@wiebe.com.
