Informationsinfrastrukturen im Wandel. Changing ... - DINI

Hartmut Koke, Sebastian Rieger 295
4.4. Health Care
The university‟s school of medicine is facing enormous challenges in
the next few years and will only be able to handle those by using efficient
tools of information technology (IT). Important elements are the introduction
of all-inclusive accounting systems, supply across different sectors, the
effects of genomic medicine on health care, research and teaching, the Bologna
process, and the competition of excellence with fewer funding options.
The school of medicine and the health care system are characterized by
their large amount of information. Unfortunately, unlike other areas, these
institutions are decades behind other departments when it comes to using IT
tools to optimize individual work steps. This gap is said to be closed within
ten years with the help of new infrastructure in the area of the electronic
health chip card and the development of a “patient care” licence.
With this in mind, the Göttingen school of medicine has developed a
process which is tightly connected to change management and process reengineering.
The IT strategy of the school of medicine in Göttingen takes an integrated
approach to research, teaching and health care. Thus, the school
follows the approach of American research universities such as Hopkins
University and the Mayo Clinic. This strategy implements the DFG recommendations
for Göttingen for the years 2006 to 2010. In 5-year plans,
which form the basis for frameworks and future HBFG proposals, the strategy
is laid out in its details for the required activities. The IT strategy staff
unit prepares the IT strategy for the school of medicine and supervises the
process and implementation.
The IT strategy acts on the suggestions of the users and integrates these
with the executive board‟s three departments (Research & Teaching, health
care, and management) into one coherent plan. This plan is used as a basis
for corresponding agreements on objectives with the state overall and with
individual departments.
The connection to other departments within the university is established
through the IT-control committee, which was initiated by the chair and the
directorate, as well as in the university senate‟s committee for information
management.