Title: Linda Landesman Recognized for Best Practices in IT Management
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Section/SPIG: Health Administration
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Linda Landesman at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and vendor partner Business Logic have developed a Web-based system to monitor medical resident work hours which received one of the national Best Practice Awards awarded by the Technology Managers Forum. Their project was awarded an Honorable Mention for Business Process Improvement because it denotes a standard of excellence that has been achieved within an organization, and provides a model for the industry that can be quantified, adapted and repeated.
Landesman and HHC were the first in the country to create an online method of tracking resident compliance with the work hour rules, a business problem that is now being faced by every teaching hospital in the United States. With her team, she converted a decentralized paper and pencil process into an enterprise-wide, Web-based application based on the business requirements of New York state regulations and national accrediting organizations. Residents can enter their time data from any Internet access point and administrators can distinguish compliance with both the state and national rules through reports which identify and distinguish both occurrences.
Technology Managers Forum (<www.techforum.com>), the professional association for enterprise IT managers, selected Landesman and her team among the winners of its ninth annual Best Practice Awards program.
The Best Practice Awards were presented at Technology Managers Forum’s eleventh annual fall conference. The Best Practice Awards program was developed to recognize and promote excellence in the business management of technology. The Best Practice Awards program is particularly distinguished by the caliber of its judging panel, which features practicing Fortune 1000 IT managers (<http://www.techforum.com/bpa/judges.html>). All winners were chosen from nominations from the United States and Europe.