What Might Be the Consequences of Failing to Work Proactively with These Stakeholders During the Project?

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Who would be the typical non-IT stakeholders in a clinical project, such as the implementation of an electronic health record? What might be the consequences of failing to work proactively with these stakeholders during the project?

Poor communication is a reason for failure for the CPOE implementation. With lack of communication other employees or employers within the organization will not know how to handle a situation if one should occur, due to the lack of the leader not showing or explaining to the employees on what to do, when implementing a new project. New initiative may be outlined but not communicated throughout the organization as to how the new project works. Expectations and opinions are not shared openly, thoroughly, and effectively so this could cause problems for the organization (Johnson, 2002).

To keep the CPOE implementation from failing we would come up with a way to communicate. For instance we would set up monthly, weekly or daily meetings, set up a way so that employees will receive e-mails about the new CPOE implementation, use e-mail to set up classes, have a power point presentation prepared for a meeting, could use verbal language, written language, and send out memos to all employees who are going to be directly working with this new implementation so they would have an understanding of the how the system works.

Lack of Leadership in an organization is cause of failure, without leadership there is no one to train the employees on how this new CPOE system is going to work or run. Employees do not know how to use the system then they could have bigger problems to deal with. Without leadership this may result in lack of buy in, poor follow through, inadequate check, goal settings will fail, there will be no strategy plans, and inefficient rewards for the organization or the employees.

In order to have proper training we would have two or more employees as leaders that have good...