The weekend of Saturday, August 17 was our final instance alignment go-live, with the successful cutover across Kadlec sites in Washington’s Tri-Cities and surrounding region.
PSJH president of operations and strategy, Mike Butler, sent the formal communication that instance alignment was approved just 18 months ago. Since then, we stood up a new collaborative build process, completed a significant upgrade, added 100s of new system-wide build decisions, converted millions of records, and transitioned 12 different organizations off of two unique Epic installs. That’s just the instance alignment project! For the IS teams supporting from our Epic team of clinical & revenue cycle applications, TEO, informatics, PPMO, and other groups, it’s been a challenging 18 months with an uncomfortable pace, but we have accomplished something of significant importance for the organization.
In the wee hours of Saturday morning, Aug. 17, we successfully cutover to the PSJH instance of Epic at Kadlec and Prosser. We also brought Beaker lab live at Providence St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, the final legacy Providence California site to transition from Sunquest. Not to be forgotten, this go live is the final legacy Providence rollout of Cupid Cardiology, a journey we started in 2015.
As with the Swedish go-live, this Kadlec transition is so much more than an Epic go live, with dozens of new systems, functions, and processes going live at the same time. Now, we turn sights to deploying PSJH Epic across St. Joseph Health ministries.