Application Plan

Jerry Bishop, Director of ApplicationsJerry Bishop, Director of Applications

November November 20062006

Application Plan Purpose

Roadmap to the future

• Establish enterprise view of programs and

applications

• Establish practice/process-based approach

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• Guide purchase and consolidation decisions

• Guide funding/resource priorities

• Guide in prioritizing projects

• Helps control and reduce costs and spending

Creating the Roadmap

• Develop higher level of understanding of applications currently in use at F&CH

• Expand focus beyond annual project list

• Be more proactive and consultative to • Be more proactive and consultative to the Business/Clinical areas

Complexity

Cost

Strategy

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Resources

Strategy

Innovation

Reducing Costs

• Realizing the economies of shared services

– Consolidation

– Optimize Operations and Maintenance Costs

– Reduce Complexity By Reducing The Number of

Applications

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Applications

– Analyze and Refine Vendor Support Contracts

• Reduce Duplicate Costs

• Implement ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)

– Emphasizes Cost Optimized, Business Alignment,

Customer Satisfaction

– Continuous improvement approach

Reducing Complexity

• Enterprise standards for FH and CMH

• Consideration for partners

– MCW, Dynacare, CCS, etc

• Move Towards Best of Suite Solutions

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• Move Towards Best of Suite Solutions

• Improve Workflows and System Usage

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Lawson

Mobile Supply

Aesculap

Distribution Mgmt:

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Strategy

• Move beyond annual portfolio planning

• Look over the horizon

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Strategy

• Application Review/Assessment

• Strengthen IT-Business/Clinical Alignment

• Understand Direction of Hospitals

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• Understand Direction of Hospitals

• Understand Long Term Goals

• Develop Application Plan in Alignment with Business Goals and Direction

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Innovation

– Application Usage Optimization

– Imaging Technologies

– Application Performance

• New technologies to improve overall

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• New technologies to improve overall

performance

– Emerging Technologies

• Personal Health Record (PHR)

• Electronic Health Record (EHR)

Resources

• IT Business Consultant

• Skills Inventory

• Training for Staff

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Questions?

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