Nuvolo went live in Alaska and Montana on June 8. This new application helps manage clinical and facilities engineering assets, processes, and workflows for the enterprise. It is the “electronic medical record” for the hundreds of thousands of medical devices, facilities equipment, and systems across Providence.
Having one enterprise asset management system allows the opportunity to evaluate and standardize service activities, develop predictive analysis, inform capital life cycle, and bring visibility to the significant technical debt in these spaces. The data from Nuvolo will drive efficiency, reduce costs, inform a technology roadmap, and bring alignment to enterprise technical priorities.
The pilot implementation in Alaska and Montana included extensive preparation and training for all clinical and facilities engineers. They have been “leaning in” to the new system, exploring the system, and helping each other work through hurdles. Clinical engineers will be trialing preventive maintenance work orders in July. Facility engineers and program managers are partnering with the software vendor to refine features of the preventive maintenance system and prepare to re-run the August workload in a parallel environment on August 15.
We will use the learnings from the pilot implementation to create improvements to the Nuvolo system and our work processes before going live in other regions. Northern California, Texas and some ministries in Southern California are scheduled to go-live with Clinical Engineering / BioMed on August 9.
Thank you to all the IS and RESO caregivers who have been part of the team to get this system successfully implemented!