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LEADERSHIP ot CASE 6-44 Evaluation of Project Management Budget Variance Your hospital has a major problem with duplicate medical record numbers. You are implementing a new EHR ecide to hire a consultant to act as the project and need to get this problem solved before implementation. You d manager and to use temporary staff to do the actual work. The use of temporary staff is at the suggestion of : the consultant. You have to train the registration staff on ways to avoid creating duplicate medical record num : bers. Some of the temporary staff members have to be trained to pull and file charts. Other temporary staff members are trained to review the charts and determine if there is a duplicate and combine the physical chart : where appropriate. A temporary RHIA is responsible for conducting data quality checks. You have a significant : amount of temporary staff turnover, resulting in constant training and fluctuation of productivity on a daily : basis. This results in the RHA having to do a 100% audit for the entire project, instead of just at the beginning as planned. You really have had to speed up the process over the last two months to complete the project on : time. The project is completed two days ahead of time, the quality of the work is great. Now you need to review the final budget for the MPI cleanup. 1. Based on the project description and the budget shown in Table 6-40, what problems do you see? : 2 From a project management standpoint, what could have been done to make this project work better? : 3. To what do you contribute the budget variance? : 4. Does the budget reflect the description of the project?