Governance and Strategy
Our governance combines IT strategy with business strategy to ensure that decision making is aligned across areas. It is made up of a number of advisory groups that feed into governance committees up to our IT Steering committee.
UCLA Health IT Strategic Plan 2022 - 2024
In addition to our major initiatives list and capital roadmap, having a strategic plan helps us focus on improving these important themes within UCLA Health IT:
- Recruit, grow, and retain our top talent
- Optimize our processes
- Ensure modern and resilient technology
We invite you to review our Strategic Plan and provide any feedback you may have.
Objective: Recruit, grow, and retain our top talent.
| Goals |
Strategies |
| • Promote EDI |
• Establish standard leadership practices |
| • Make learning & development opportunities more accessible |
• Manager skills enhanced to focus on core skills (i.e., coaching, negotiation, conflict resolution) |
| • Implement standard and efficient recruitment practices |
• Standardized recruitment process |
| • Promote manager development & standard practices |
• Develop curated learning opportunities |
| • Promote equitable compensation practices |
• Develop UHIT job shadowing / cross-training program |
| • Promote career development |
• Develop formal mentorship program |
| • Elevate the skills of our workforce |
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Objective: Optimize processes that need improvement.
| Goals |
Strategies |
| • Reduce technical debt |
• Improve PMO maturity level |
| • Increase automation |
• Enhance access to project and portfolio data |
| • Enhance customer experience |
• Increase report automation |
| • Maintain & improve security posture |
• Optimize risk assessment process |
| • Standardize UHIT documentation process and ensure documentation is accessible |
• Enhance procurement processes |
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• Enhance provisioning capabilities |
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• Develop DevSecOps methodology |
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• Improve vulnerability patching |
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• Proactively review contracts |
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• Improve medical device management |
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• Create organized central repository for documentation (examples: governance documentation, playbooks, procedures) |
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• Increase IT presence in the clinical setting |
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• Strengthen partnership between UHIT & operations |
Objective: Ensure modern and resilient technology.
| Goals |
Strategies |
| • Innovate delivery of clinical care, education and research |
• Enable the pipeline to introduce new and/or disruptive technologies which transform capabilities |
| • Rationalize and modernize our application portfolio |
• Define & launch our unified cloud strategy |
| • Evolve to a unified data architecture across UHIT |
• Conduct comprehensive review with documented modernization plan and disaster recovery strategy for all applications |
| • Increase disaster recovery solutions and capabilities |
• Modernize customer experience |
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• Establish unified UHIT data governance workgroup for oversight, workflows, cataloging and lineage requirements |
