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Over the next year, the IT Transformation
priority will build the foundation to prepare The transformation will help
for this digital world. This initiative is not
simply a change to IT but is a profound bring teams together, and
change to all of UHN. This change will allow for new and innovative
require us to make decisions differently,
organize ourselves differently and invest ways to support clinical,
differently. Our future will bring together
capabilities from across all domains at UHN education and research
that continue to foster local innovation and needs, as well as patient
support us building a learning organization.
Through this, we will begin to achieve our needs both in and out of the
greater potential. hospital.
The approach for the IT Transformation
has been set for the next year, with initial
focus on learning about the current state of
IT across the organization and introducing
global perspectives of possibilities. A
primary method of discovery is being done immediate needs of today, such as the Medical Order
through “co-design events.” The co-design events are Entry / Medical Administration Record (MOE/MAR)
allowing for hundreds of people from across UHN implementation at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
to contribute to the future digital organization. There and introduce advanced technologies such as cloud
has been great success with engagement and learning based communications and productivity tools.
from across the organization at three events to date:
Future IT Architecture, Business Intelligence, and As we undergo changes this year, there will
IT Operating Model – several more are planned be profound impact to the organization. The
throughout the year. transformation will help bring teams together, and
allow for new and innovative ways to support clinical,
The learnings from the co-design events will education and research needs, as well as patient needs
contribute to the design of: 1) a new IT organization; both in and out of the hospital. This will position
2) its decision making processes and; 3) our collective UHN for the future digital world that will surround
digital priorities over the coming years. At the same us and will allow for IT to enable the purpose of the
time, UHN will continue to move forward on the hospital.
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