Project risk management is crucial, yet frequently under-practiced. In this presentation,Steve Steele, PMP, will illustrate how he used project risk management tools to provide better care, increase efficiency, reduce/eliminate errors, and save lives while designing, building, and installing a standardized electronic medical record (EMR) system across Mayo Clinic Health System. The EMR was rolled out across 17 hospitals and 64 clinics, including 12,000 end users and 900 physicians from March 2009 through April 2011 with a major upgrade in October 2011. Two million daily transactions are expected by the end of 2011.

Attendees Will Learn:

• The benefit of risk management
• How to identify risks on a complex project
• An overview of risk management tools and how to introduce them to team members
• The five key steps to risk management
• Risk management do’s and don’ts
• How to integrate project lessons learned into future project risk analysis

Steven W. Steele, PMP, has been a project manager for the Mayo Clinic Health System (MCHS) since January 2007, working on the creation of the MCHS Electronic Medical Record (EMR) System. The MCHS EMR is a standardized computer database system connecting hospitals and clinics across the MCHS, which spans Southern and Southeastern Minnesota, Western Wisconsin, and Northeastern Iowa. Steve has been instrumental in training and supporting MCHS project managers on applying project risk management tools. Prior to joining Mayo, Steve was employed at IBM for 23 years as a project manager for large integrated circuit designs, and as an electrical engineer for power and battery systems. Steve has seven patents, has published in the IBM Journal of Research and Development, and has been a PMP since March 2004.