Information Management Council

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Charter

The IMC serves as the IT policy, oversight, and action arm of the Vice Presidents' Group (VPG). In this role, the IMC helps develop and apply policy and strategy, and provides operational oversight for all IT activities performed across the MUSC enterprise. The IMC also performs – or directs the performance of tasks and actions as directed by the VPG.

Functions

The IMC, working in close partnership with the VPG and other participants in the MUSC IT Governance process, performs the following functions:

• Formulates and articulates a vision for the deployment and use of information and IT across MUSC.
• Supports MUSC organizations in the use of IT to constantly improve educational, research, and clinical process.
• Helps develop and maintain a “roadmap” for MUSC’s future educational, research, and clinical environments, featuring the role of information and IT in enabling desired future-state operations
• Champions enterprise-wide systems and the effective evolution of MUSC’s information infrastructure.
• Develops and issues information management (IT) policies that promote best practices.
• Establishes, maintains, assesses, and continuously improves mechanisms for 1) managing information investments; 2) assessing performance and results; and 3) sharing lessons learned throughout the organization.
• Champions information technologies that are critical to MUSC missions.
• Establishes standards and guidelines to maximize information and information system integration.
• Communicates the MUSC vision, business objectives, and business priorities to IT planners and service providers.
• Resolves significant IT issues, or if necessary presents to the VPG concise, well-researched decision briefs, with appropriate recommendations.
• Advocates the creation, collection, and use of information as an organizational asset.
• Ensures that appropriate and cost-effective information protection measures are applied to information and IT assets.
• Recommends to the VPG major IT funding and cost allocation decisions and strategies.
• Oversees, at a policy level, IT procurement, sourcing, and other IT resource acquisition processes.
• Oversees the operation of the MUSC IT service delivery function, including the effective use of service level agreements and the ongoing assessment of IT service quality.
• Provides oversight for all IT projects, both on an individual project basis and for the overall MUSC portfolio of IT projects.
• Ensures that post-implementation project reviews are conducted, that expected project benefits are realized, and that the governance process benefits from lessons learned.