The IT department is a valuable resource for the UNMC community
The Information Technology (IT) intake process was developed by the UNMC and Nebraska Medicine Information Technology Department to prioritize and schedule IT project requests. The IT Intake process applies to education, research and clinical missions.
There are many great project ideas across the enterprise that involve IT, and all can benefit from knowing about them. The Academic and Clinical Management Committees improve communication about project ideas, rationalization, and provide transparency around decision-making, inviting the UNMC community to talk about resource allocation and prioritization of IT initiatives.
Most projects that are underway, or planned for the future, live on the IT roadmaps. The roadmaps are created and finalized in the fourth quarter of fiscal year planning and ensure IT is supporting both UNMC and Nebraska Medicine missions. The Academic and Clinical Management Committees approve and prioritize ideas. The IT Projects and Prioritization Committee sequence and resource ideas.
Sometimes great projects are not on a roadmap — an innovation, opportunity or new need. For the projects that are not on the roadmap, the five-step process is outlined below:
- If you have an project, talk with your department leader and if it’s a priority for the department, submit the intake form.
- IT Project Management Office will route the request an academic or clinical management committee that compares and prioritizes it to other ideas and projects. Next, an IT accountable leader and team are assigned,
- IT Accountable Leader assigns one of four paths: IT resources are available; IT resources are unavailable; the idea takes higher priority over current work; the idea is beyond existing IT skillsets
- When IT resources become available, project scoping will start, which takes the idea through IT assessment, legal and procurement processes.
- Implementation — Once approved and funding is secured, implementation will begin once resources are available.