IT governance in healthcare

IT governance creates the prerequisites and a regulatory framework for optimal IT support in the various specialist disciplines and is an indispensable component in healthcare. Components of IT governance are process structures, organizational requirements and management structures for the entire IT infrastructure in the healthcare facilities and the interaction of all involved stakeholders as well as the implementation of the requirements of the healthcare system.

Application in healthcare

Due to the increasingly complex IT-supported processes has been reached a dimension that requires now regulation and agreement. In order to contain the growing transaction costs therefore it makes sense to agree on uniform IT governance standard.
The task of the IT is to supporting the processes of the healthcare facility on an optimally simple and oconomical way. This creates the essential prerequisites for the increasingly important communication with national and international external facilities, institutions and patients. For this purpose should be specified the framework conditions and rules in the health facility. IT governance creates the efficient framework for this.
With these principles can be taken the procedures and measures with the help of IT and an optimization of costs, quality and security can be achieved.

Federal IT governance system in health facilities

The federal system inevitably arises in the health facilities due to the central and decentralized forms of organization and organizational structure. One of the result could be an overarching areas of tension in the manuel and electronic processes, as well as in the documentation obligations and access to the data. These areas of tension can be eliminated through established and adapted structures, guidelines and rules with the support of the federal IT governance system.

The federal IT governance system essentially consists of three pillars which, depending on the healthcare facility, can differ in their characteristics and balance.

The federal IT governance system essentially consists of three pillars which, depending on the healthcare facility, can differ in their characteristics and balance.

Pillar 1

Overall control:
Responsible for pillars 2 and 3, definition of targets, overall planning, specification of general standards

Pillar 2

IT demand:
Responsible for the definition of requirements, specialist architecture and specialist conception with detail standards

Pillar 3

IT supply:
Responsible for IT operations, technical architecture and advises pillars 1 and 2

The following success factors for health facilities and healthcare systems are the results of the IT Governance integration:

Transaction

  • Accelerated and improved processes
  • Improved quality
  • Expansion of employee satisfaction
  • Increase of patient satisfaction

Technology

  • Improve Consolidation
  • Improvement of standardization
  • Expansion of the security of the IT systems
  • Easy scalability

Framework for optimal IT support

IT governance creates as an important component in health care thus the prerequisites and a regulatory framework for optimal IT support for the various specialist disciplines. The components of IT governance are process structures, organizational requirements and management structures for the entire IT infrastructure in the healthcare facilities and the interaction of all involved stakeholders, as well as the implementation of the requirements of the healthcare system.