ICT audit

02 may 2019

AZ Sint-Augustinus is a regional general hospital with over 200 authorized acute hospital beds. Today the hospital has defined a number of priorities in terms of policy, including a new construction project, accreditation, possible collaborations with other specialised centres and hospitals as well as the further automation of the hospital.

Project Highlights

Customer: AZ Sint-Augustinus Veurne
Main Goal: Organize an audit in the hospital, with the overall objective to bring IT to the next level
Main Result: Report with full analysis and possible solutions, suggestions for actions and overall recommendations, new organisational structure, introduction of an IT committee, PMO

In 2014 the hospital experienced a number of challenges in terms of IT. Because of the essential role of the IT strategy and organisation to further optimise the hospital, the management and medical board asked Hict to organize an audit with the overall objective to bring IT to the next level. The audit was designed to gain insight in the current IT policy, the functioning of the IT department and possible options for improvement.

The audit had to answer the following questions:

Is the IT department organised in the right way? What are the possible improvements?
Is the approach for the implementation of new systems correctly organised?
Are the skills within the department IT properly attuned to the needs of the organisation?

Approach

Based on a number of intensive workshops with a representative group of IT users (doctors, medical-technical services, support services, nursing and administration), policy bodies (executive committee and medical board) and interviews with IT staff, Hict gained insight into the current performance of the IT department.

The participants were interviewed on different topics. The focus was mainly on the strategy, policy, internal processes, service levels, projects, applications and integration. The more IT technical issues were excluded, such as security, systems & network and infrastructure.

After processing the workshops and interviews, the content was validated by the participants. Furthermore an observation of the IT department took place.

All the input from the workshops, interviews and observations was then processed in a SWOT analysis. This SWOT has been formulated based on the ‘organisational’ criteria of the quadrant method (EFQM).

The interactive approach based on workshops and interviews, led to valuable insights and a substantiated consultation. Also the combination with the observation of the ICT department gave a clear view into the policy and its functioning.

Results

A report in which a full analysis and possible solution was captured
For each theme actions and suggestions were proposed, but the hospital also received overall recommendations like following concrete suggestions
A new organisational structure to give IT a more strategic role
An IT committee is installed as a point of balance between the business and the IT department and also to optimise the cooperation between both parties.
a Project Management Office (PMO)

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