Special Report: challenges challenges for CIO healthcare

In this special issue dedicated to CIO in the healthcare sector, we offer insights and feedback, expert columns and tools. You'll find articles, videos and guides co-authored with industry experts.

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Center hospitalier : How to equip the steering process of the CIO

CIO of the Centre Hospitalier du Vinatier shares its experience of project management and the benefits of using a Project Portfolio Management solution such as Project Monitor.

Piloting a CIO - Feedback from CH Le Vinatier from VIRAGE Group on Vimeo.

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Practical guide: CIO de la santé, 6 clés pour maîtriser la conduite de vos projets

In this guide, you'll find expert advice:

  • A guide that highlights the various challenges HIS issues around the master plan, GHT issues and budget monitoring.
  • A practical sheet with HIS performance indicators
  • Tips and case studies for managing project portfolios with a PPM tool - Project Portfolio Management
  • The Prince 2 method to help teams manage change

CIO What role do hospital staff play in GHT healthcare establishments?

Find out what Jean-Christophe CALVO, Director of Information Systems at the CHRU de Nancy and the GHT Sud Lorraine grouping 11 establishments, has to say. How do you go from convergence to implementation of an information systems master plan?

Focus on interoperability between existing software solutions or on convergence?

Jean Christophe CALVO CIO CHRU Nancy GHT Sud Lorraine

The information system comprises some 100 applications, the main themes of which are: patient records, admissions, billing, quality and human resources.

Managers will have to consider 2 solutions:

  • Adapt to existing IS and make existing solutions interoperable
  • Converge software by choosing a single solution or by replacing redundant solutions

To structure convergence projects, you need to run workshops. What information is structured by the analyzed software, the parameterization phase, then the deployment phase with training. The deployment phase takes about a month. After that, however, it is possible to duplicate the methodology, which speeds up implementation.

The need to harmonize practices despite different organizational structures

All software is a response to challenges .

Having just one tool and one form can complicate patient management. We therefore need to take into account the specific needs of each business.

In this case, each hospital has its own practices. For example, some caregivers administer care in capsules, while others administer it in milligrams: the software records this as such. A common form can then really change patient practices. We need to reach a consensus on the principle of convergence, because in the end there is only one form for all establishments...

How does the French Ministry of Health and Solidarity organize 200 action plans in a single tool?

Together with 6PO, we are piloting over 180 action plans for the Ministry and the 17 Regional Health Agencies. This represents 1,500 action pilots and 9,000 actions.

Stéphanie Moullion, 6PO national project manager

With 6PO, the French Ministry of Health and Solidarity has set up a system that enables it to meet its national and regional healthcare system management requirements. The 6PO program is based on the Perf Monitor software.

Stéphanie Moullion National Project Manager 6PO program

Watch the replay of the Masterclass with the French Ministry of Health and Solidarity. On the program:

  • the challenges 6PO program: multi-level governance (national, regional, departmental, health facility, etc.)
  • the architecture of the different types of Action Plan: program, roadmap, objective, action
  • key functions for organizing action plans: rights management, action portfolio,
  • the benefits of 6PO: a management, communication and transparency tool

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