Information systems planning at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada

In summary, UMC benefitted from the planning process and resulting information systems plan because the Medical Center was better able perform the following tasks: Understand organizational interrelationships; Identify organizational and user needs; Set enterprise-wide priorities; Document information systems needs, priorities, and relationships; Ensure management and user agreement on system direction and sequence prior to system implementation; Maximize opportunities for cost effectiveness and operational efficiency; and Define functional requirements of systems. Essential to the above tasks and resulting benefits were an executive management team at UMC which worked together to plan, and departmental managers who assessed their individual needs in the light of UMC's overall strategy.