Looking for Healthcare Project Management Software? Meet ClearPoint Strategy

If you need healthcare project management software that keeps individual projects on track and supports your organization’s broader effort to deliver high-quality care, consider ClearPoint. It is strategic project management software that lets hospitals and other healthcare organizations track and manage the projects that help them reach their objectives.

Your project managers may feel like they have two bosses. One, in the Project Management Office, wants to see the status of each project (project spend, percent complete, and project effectiveness). The other, in the Strategy Management Office, wants to see how projects drive strategic objectives (ownership, RAG status, and completion dates). Creating different reports for different bosses is exhausting. ClearPoint can clean up this mess and keep both parties happy while you track your projects in one place.

Healthcare project planning with ClearPoint

Projects are the key to driving change. Whatever long-term outcome you want, whether it’s a top-notch team of health professionals, higher patient satisfaction rates, or anything else, you can only reach it by developing and completing strategic projects.

Managing projects in healthcare is especially hard. There are usually many internal and external stakeholders, costs (and stakes) tend to be high, and visibility across organizations is often fragmented. ClearPoint was designed to handle these challenges. Healthcare organizations and hospitals that use our project management software have a better overall picture of performance, communicate more effectively with various stakeholders, and spend less time on the low-level tasks associated with project reporting.

What ClearPoint covers for healthcare projects

1. It fits the way you work in terms of project and task management.

Any software you choose should support a range of project management methodologies (like agile, waterfall, critical path method, and others) so it works for you now and in the future. If your organization takes a hybrid approach, this matters even more. ClearPoint can help you track hundreds of projects, and the tasks in each one, whatever methodology you use.

2. It is simple to use—period.

Healthcare workers don’t have time to learn complicated software (you have better things to do). Lots of vendors say their products are easy to use. We have the customer reviews to back it up: see our reviews on G2, and read this case study, which credits ease of use for the software’s high adoption rate among managers.

Part of the simplicity comes from the drag-and-drop interface. You can create dashboards and reports in minutes with a few clicks. Integrations save time too: ClearPoint integrates with your other legacy applications, and you can connect local spreadsheets and databases without any coding or IT involvement.

3. It connects departmental projects to your organization’s strategy.

Hospitals and other healthcare facilities tend to have many departments that work in their own silos, which makes it hard to improve the organization as a whole. ClearPoint helps you run departmental projects and also shows project progress against organizational strategy. For project execution, it lets you:

• Track project progress over time by budget, percent complete, and quality
• Assign accountability and delegate project responsibilities for easy follow-up
• Add both quantitative and qualitative analysis to explain a project’s status or progress
• Create multi-project dashboards to quickly evaluate progress and identify areas that require action
• Create Gantt charts for scheduling and visualization of tasks
• Set alerts for yourself or teams when deadlines are approaching, project spending is near the budget limit, new projects or action items are assigned, and more

What sets ClearPoint apart is that it also tracks how those projects affect your strategy. You can:

• Link projects to KPIs or key goals, or link the same project to different goals in different departments
• Roll up projects into programs and portfolios
• Create program management dashboards to see the status and progress of a program and all the projects it includes
• Create a status dashboard that shows the handful of high-priority projects that have the biggest impact on your strategy

4. It makes it easy for you to use that important information.

Having all that information in one place helps, but your software should also make it easy to use and share. Healthcare administration and delivery are costly, and ClearPoint helps you manage resources and spending. Hospitals doing budget planning use our software to allocate resources. They also use it to track budgeting KPIs and to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of projects when deciding which initiatives to fund.

For reporting, ClearPoint does most of the heavy lifting. You can create high-level and detailed reports for different audiences. Once the first set exists, you generate the remaining monthly reports for everyone with a few clicks. We’ve also automated much of the reporting process, so you don’t spend time chasing data updates and distributing reports. After switching to ClearPoint, San Juan Regional Medical Center estimates it cut reporting time by 89%.

ClearPoint was designed to help you make good decisions. San Juan Regional’s managers use it as a process improvement tool because they can see and understand their performance and make changes based on the data. Even their senior leaders regularly log into ClearPoint to see where they stand with their goals.

If you’re a healthcare facility or hospital looking for project management software, set up a time to talk with our team today.