Comments on: HIStalk Interviews Tanya Townsend, Director of IT at Saint Clare’s Hospital http://histalk2.com/2007/11/14/histalk-interviews-tanya-townsend-director-of-it-at-saint-clares-hospital/ Healthcare IT News and Opinion Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:28:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ziggy http://histalk2.com/2007/11/14/histalk-interviews-tanya-townsend-director-of-it-at-saint-clares-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Ziggy Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:38:38 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2007/11/14/histalk-interviews-tanya-townsend-director-of-it-at-saint-clares-hospital/#comment-463 I can attest to the fact that Tanya's leadership made this Hospital a huge success, and opened on-time. I had worked for her on this project. I was very focused on technology systems, but soon ralized they had no value in improving operations if the users didn't know they integrated. I recall Tanya having huge wall size maps of all the integration and being able to demonstrate all the process flows. She never accepted "this won't work", or "we've always done it this way". The process maps and her determination of fully integrated solutions was crucial. She has been a mentor to me in truely "Getting out of IT" and into the eyes of the business. The process mapping may be too specific to individual business practices and flow. However I have created a sumamry bookmark for many of the Vendor Technologies that were pulled together at: http://www.iKeepBookmarks.com/MHCsystems I can attest to the fact that Tanya’s leadership made this Hospital a huge success, and opened on-time. I had worked for her on this project. I was very focused on technology systems, but soon ralized they had no value in improving operations if the users didn’t know they integrated. I recall Tanya having huge wall size maps of all the integration and being able to demonstrate all the process flows. She never accepted “this won’t work”, or “we’ve always done it this way”. The process maps and her determination of fully integrated solutions was crucial. She has been a mentor to me in truely “Getting out of IT” and into the eyes of the business.

The process mapping may be too specific to individual business practices and flow. However I have created a sumamry bookmark for many of the Vendor Technologies that were pulled together at: http://www.iKeepBookmarks.com/MHCsystems

]]> By: Art_Vandelay http://histalk2.com/2007/11/14/histalk-interviews-tanya-townsend-director-of-it-at-saint-clares-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-436 Art_Vandelay Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:17:43 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2007/11/14/histalk-interviews-tanya-townsend-director-of-it-at-saint-clares-hospital/#comment-436 Great interview, as always. Remarkable progress, great insights, and "using what you have," hopefully a subject of an upcoming blog post - you read my mind. Tanya - any chance of making those process flows available under a creative commons license? I believe letting others in the industry see how you accomplished what you have is key to moving the paper-less movement forward. Great interview, as always. Remarkable progress, great insights, and “using what you have,” hopefully a subject of an upcoming blog post – you read my mind.

Tanya – any chance of making those process flows available under a creative commons license? I believe letting others in the industry see how you accomplished what you have is key to moving the paper-less movement forward.

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