CHRISTUS Health’s IT Management Dashboard

George Conklin, Senior VP and CIO, CHRISTUS Health, Dallas. CHRISTUS Health, a large Catholic health care delivery system, based in Dallas, TX, maintains a focus on performance and uses a variety of benchmark and performance tools to assess organizational performance on an ongoing basis. One tool, developed by the CHRISTUS Health Information Management (IM) department measures the performance of that organization. The tool shows overall budgetary performance, regional budget performance and ranking against benchmarks, applications project activity, and overall workloads. The tool also incorporates a security dashboard that the organization uses to assess the effectiveness of internal controls and the value for the money and time spent on security infrastructure.