The trip to the seventh annual re:public retreat for those who choose to lead provided a chance to get caught up with friends in Arizona over the weekend.
At breakfast on Sunday, we met with a friend who is a veteran of health care IT systems implementation and training. She had moved here three years ago after a long career at public hospitals in the northwest. The then new job was with a hospital system run by a religious order.
There is much in common between the two environments. The same software, the same organizational resistance, the same tight budgets, the same aggressive time lines and the same team dynamics. But there was at least one notable difference.
This morning's breakfast came as the launch of the next iteration of the clinical information system loomed only seven days away. The team was pressing hard against deadlines, working long hours to ready the system for the go live next Saturday at midnight.
In double checking the final countdown's task list, a colleague reminded our friend that there was one final requirement for the go live -- finding a priest to bless the new system as it went into production.
After a flurry of e-mail, she found a priest who was happy to help but there was one last contingency -- a page at 11:00PM to make sure he was awake at an hour much later than his normal bedtime.
At breakfast on Sunday, we met with a friend who is a veteran of health care IT systems implementation and training. She had moved here three years ago after a long career at public hospitals in the northwest. The then new job was with a hospital system run by a religious order.
There is much in common between the two environments. The same software, the same organizational resistance, the same tight budgets, the same aggressive time lines and the same team dynamics. But there was at least one notable difference.
This morning's breakfast came as the launch of the next iteration of the clinical information system loomed only seven days away. The team was pressing hard against deadlines, working long hours to ready the system for the go live next Saturday at midnight.
In double checking the final countdown's task list, a colleague reminded our friend that there was one final requirement for the go live -- finding a priest to bless the new system as it went into production.
After a flurry of e-mail, she found a priest who was happy to help but there was one last contingency -- a page at 11:00PM to make sure he was awake at an hour much later than his normal bedtime.
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