IT Service of the Medicine Section

Med-IT maintains the IT infrastructure of the Department of Medicine. It is the first point of contact within the department for all questions concerning the IT network, data storage, computers and laptops as well as software. Administratively, Med-IT is the interface between the Department of Medicine and the IT Directorate (DIT) of the University of Fribourg. Thus, the Med-IT is the link between teaching and research and the services of the DIT (Informatics Budget, Scientific IT, etc.).

Main tasks

• Hardware

  • Administration of the budget for desktop computers and laptops

  • Advising on the purchase of laboratory computers and specialised computers

  • Installation and renewal of computers

  • Installation of software

  • Troubleshooting computers and software

  • User instruction

• Software

  • Administration of the software budget

  • Advice on software purchases

  • Evaluation of application programmes

  • Purchasing

  • licence management

  • Maintenance

  • Ad-hoc briefings

• Data storage

  • Advice on data lifecycle

  • Choice of data storage solutions

  • Acquisition of data storage systems

  • System management (access privileges, restore backups)

• Websites/communication

  • CMS support (unifr.ch/med)

  • CMS support Blogs

  • Administration of diffusion lists

  • Administration of info screens

  • Administration Agenda and News

The whole Med-IT team works together on the tasks listed above (see below). Mailing lists (see box) exist to facilitate (first) contact and to guarantee continuity even during absences of individual staff members. In normal operation, however, responsibilities are divided by building in order to make communication as direct as possible.

Special tasks

For certain tasks, coordination within the Medical Department is necessary, for others we have only one specialist for the entire department. These tasks are each assigned to a single person who acts as a contact person and is responsible for the respective area.

Team