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Project Planning and Management

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Transforming Health Care Through Information

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Modern information technology is far more than a collection of wires, resistors, chips, plastic, and sheet metal. It is the productive combination of hardware, software, human factors, and environmental factors. Implementing information technology is as much a social process as a technical one. People who are oriented to thinking of technology solely in hardware—or even software—terms have a hard time appreciating the emotional reactions that technological change issues often provoke.

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  1. Georges Weil
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Cincinnati Medical Center, 231 Bethesda Avenue, 45267, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Nancy M. Lorenzi Ph.D. (Associate Senior Vice President) (Associate Senior Vice President)

  2. Riley Associates, 221 Hilltop Lane, 45215, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Robert T. Riley Ph.D. (President) (President)

  3. Corporate Information and Communication Systems, University of Maryland at Baltimore, 100 N. Greene Street, 21201-1502, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Marion J. Ball Ed.D. (Vice President of Education Services) (Vice President of Education Services)

  4. Information Services, University of Maryland, 100 N. Greene Street, 21201-1502, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Judith V. Douglas MHS (Director and Assistant to the Vice President) (Director and Assistant to the Vice President)

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Weil, G. et al. (1995). Project Planning and Management. In: Lorenzi, N.M., Riley, R.T., Ball, M.J., Douglas, J.V. (eds) Transforming Health Care Through Information. Computers in Health Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2385-4_4

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2385-4_4

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