IT & objective Alignment

Running head: IT PROJECT GOVERNANCE IN HEATH CARE SYSTEM
IT PROJECT GOVERNANCE IN HEATH
CARE SYSTEM
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction:..............................................................................................................1
1.1. Identified issue-..................................................................................................1
1.2. Background-.......................................................................................................2
1.3. Overview of the analytical tool-.........................................................................2
2. IT project governance in Heath care system:.............................................................3
2.1. Worthington’s Healthcare system:......................................................................4
2.2. Information system:............................................................................................6
3. Recommendation:......................................................................................................8
IT & objective alignment-................................................................................................9
IT resource management-................................................................................................9
IT performance management-..........................................................................................9
Development good leadership style-...............................................................................9
IT Risk management-.....................................................................................................10
4. Conclusion and Discussion:.....................................................................................10
5. Future Work:............................................................................................................11

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1. Introduction:
Considering the rapid growth of technology it is identified that information technology
has majorly impacted the operations of several sensitive fields which includes the health
care industries. Considering this aspect it is identified that Worthington healthcare system
is one of the practical application of Information Technology into the healthcare industry.
Followed by a detail analysis of the nominated case scenario of Worthington health care
system this study will provide a detailed understanding on the every essential aspect of the
nominated issues. While analyzing the case scenario it is identified that the chief
information officer of the Worthington Health care system has taken imitative for
enhancing the IT governance (Schultze 2014).
Followed by this consideration the paper will focus on the identification of issues
that are faced by the nominated organization. Along with this it will also focus of the
effective approaches that will help to enhance the IT governance into the infrastructure of
Worthington Healthcare system.
1.1. Identified issue-
Followed by a detailed analysis of the mentioned case scenario it is identified that
the chief information officer as well as the vice president of the Worthington healthcare
system has taken an initiative to improve the IT governance for the present information
system. Followed by these considerations it is identified that due to the occurrence the
disruption into the operations of the current system, the Chief Information Officer has
given the responsibility to improve the Information Technology management of the system
which will also help to deliver best results to its customers (Zhang, Zhao & Kumar 2016).
Currently with the present infrastructure of the nominated system the employees as
well as the managements are facing several problems to operate the IT functionalities of
the nominated system which is impacting the effectiveness of the nominated system.
Followed by these considerations it is identified that the Chief Information Officer is now
facing a huge dilemma between three situations which includes the decision of continuing
with the current system, improving the current system with major modification and altering
the current system with a new IT system (Al-Hila et al., 2017).
Thus, it can be stated that this paper will focus on the discussion of the factor to
improve the IT governance of the IT system of Worthington Healthcare.
1.2. Background-
After completion of a thorough investigation of the Worthington healthcare system it
is identified that this is an US based organization that consists of 27 healthcare amenities.
This US based company has taken the initiative to serve effective medical services to its
users. Those services includes the treatment of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular services
and many more. This company is currently capable of serving almost 3500 patients at a
time and has the capabilities to manage near about 600000 admissions each year. Along
with these facilities the organization consists of 21000 staffs among which almost 4800
staffs are doctors with good expertise (Joshi et al., 2018).
1.3. Overview of the analytical tool-
While analyzing the background of the organization it is identified that Worthington
healthcare system is such information system that will manage the infrastructure as well as
the IT enabled projects of the organization. Primarily the organization utilizes the
application services and enterprise project management to gather the data and
management the operational activities of the organization by using those data (Gregory et
al., 2018).

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2. IT project governance in Heath care system:
Followed by the above discussion it is identified that the in this case IT governance
holds a significant impact. Thus, a detailed investigation has been conducted on the
essentiality of the IT governance into the healthcare industry with the purpose to get an
idea about how the organization might get impacted by the improvement of the IT
governance into the operational infrastructure. The prose of healthcare system governance
reflects a broad governance style which includes several definitions and frameworks as
well (De Haes et al., 2016). Followed by these identification it is observed that governance
practice is consists of the actions to set strategic goals and paths to manage the operations
of the organizations, preparation of effective laws that will help to regulate the goals and
actions of the nominated organization with the purpose to improve the governance
practices of the organization. Along with this effective governance also consists of the
practice to make sure that all of the above mentioned rules and regulations are
implemented successfully and being followed as well.
Followed by these identifications a study of World Health Organization (WHO) has
incorporated leadership into with the concept of governance with the purpose to make sure
that the developed strategies are being followed effectively and the developed policies are
showing the expected results as well. Now analyzing these identifications with the
healthcare industry and from the analysis it is observed that the healthcare system does
not consists only the internal operation but consists the public systems as well (Bianchi &
Sousa 2016).
Considering this aspect WHO has mentioned that the governance into the
healthcare system requires several components those includes strategic vision, analysis of
the consequences, transparency of the developed law, equity, responsiveness,
participation, effectiveness, accountability, ethics, information, intelligence as well as the
inclusiveness. Followed by the above considerations it is also recognized that there are
several formulations as well as several functionalities are present which will impact the
effectiveness of the healthcare services. Along with these identifications it is observed that
It governance in to healthcare system will demand accountability with highest priority. Due
to this action this will encompass effective decision making approaches, more structured
work flow, effective service deliveries, improved accountability of the healthcare
organization as well as helps to balance the work flow of the organization (Fusheini, Eyles
& Goudge 2018).
While relating these findings with the nominated case scenario it can be stated that
enhancement into the IT governance of the healthcare organization will majorly impact the
success of the organization. Followed by these considerations it can be stated that
incorporation of effective IT governance will improve the organizational strategies that will
also impact the operational capabilities of the healthcare sector (Lock 2019).
Along with the above discussion a detailed study on the Worthington’s Healthcare
system and a detailed analysis on the information system is provided in the below section
that will help to get more understanding on the targeted area of this case scenario.
2.1. Worthington’s Healthcare system:
Followed by the above discussion a thorough investigation has been conducted on
the Worthington’s healthcare system in order to gather detailed information about the
current system. During the investigation it identified that at the initial stage of this
healthcare organization into the business field has developed servers, data centers, help
desk, biomedical equipment, application support portal as well as other effective features
for its customers. Although due to the organization’s operational infrastructure the
organization has faced several limitations with relation to less effective data management
and decision making approaches. Decentralized nature of the organization was the primary
reason behind this failure, due to which the organization was unable to keep the data of