University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
There are five main committees that work with KMIT initiatives. Each are described in detail below.
This group, comprised of Holly Buchanan - Associate Vice President for Knowledge Management and IT, Director of HSLIC; Ron Margolis - CIO of University Hospitals; and Pug Burge - Chief Administrative Officer for Health Sciences, communicates directly with the Executive Vice President of Health Sciences regarding the planning, implementations, and enhancements of technology at the Health Sciences Center.
Dr. Buchanan recently was designated to lead the HSC's Next Generation Collaboration for Knowledge Networks.
A faculty liaison council was commissioned by the Vice President for Health Sciences in 2000 to support two-way dialogue among faculty and HSC leadership concerning information / telecommunication technologies needed to support education, research, patient care, and administration. This council, comprised of faculty and staff, enhance communication among staff and faculty in the School of Medicine, College of Nursing, and College of Pharmacy and directly advises the KMIT Leadership Council.
This council's charge is to assist in envisioning the future by identifying faculty needs in the information/ telecommunication technologies and knowledge management resources supporting HSC Strategic Planning Goals in education, research, clinical care and administration. Technologies and resources include those needed to support the curriculum, distance learning, continuing education, patient care and telehealth, research processes, outreach, training and professional development (including simulation), administrative services, workstation and network support, application support, web-based technologies for internet/intranet development, public access computing, classrooms, and audio/visual production.
The Operations Council consists of representatives from HSLIC's TECHS Department, University Hospitals' IT Department, and several administrative areas throughout the HSC. Its purpose is to ensure communications and consistent planning and policy development throughout the IT community on campus.
The IS Steering Committee oversees IT system selections and discusses IT issues for University Hospitals (UNMH). It includes representation from UNMH Administration, the School of Medicine Administration, physicians, training, Quality Assurance and Health Information Management.
The IS Directors include representatives from various departmental level IT shops across the HSC. This group meets quarterly.
