Waste Optimization: Right Waste, Right Stream, Right Cost

A Waste Optimization Playbook has been created to meet our 2030 waste goal. This Playbook provides guidance and best practice recommendations to optimize waste management while meeting regulatory requirements, ensuring patient and staff safety, being fiscally responsible and meeting our environmental stewardship goals.

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Get to Know What the IS Quality Engineering Team Can Offer

The Quality Engineering Center of Excellence, also known as the QE team, drives the acceleration of Providence’s digital transformation journey through modern engineering practices, focusing on expanding test automation for end-to-end business processes where automation can make the biggest impact.

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HI’s First Power BI Data Sets and Reports Available in myHIway

The IS Healthcare Intelligence (HI) BI Modernization team has delivered the first Power BI centralized data sets (CDS) and visualizations to empower data analytics report user and developers with self-service reporting. This is the first part of an ongoing initiative to create new or enhance existing data sources and reports in our Power BI platform using the Cloud Data Warehouse (CDW) in Azure.

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Collaboration Drives Progress on Enterprise Metric Repository Project

Last year, the Data Strategy & Governance Subcommittee sponsored a project to create a centralized Enterprise Metric Repository. In February, the supporting team has completed the first 2022 deliverable of the project: a centralized database to house the aggregated metric result data and serve as the source for the Integrated Strategic and Financial Plan (ISFP) System Dashboard.

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Get to Know the Clinical Technology Services Leads for Your Region

Within the Strategic Technology Enablement (STE) pillar, Clinical Technology Services include End User Services, Clinical Engineering & Biomedical, and AskIT teams. Over the past year, there has been an ongoing effort to align the Clinical Engineering and the local IS teams, and to put in place leadership for each region/ministry for service delivery of these functions.

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‘Journeys in Leadership’ Sits Down with RESO Leaders, Alex and Glenda

In February, Doug Lewis, GVP of IS Administrative Technology and an exec sponsor of our IS & RESO Caregiver Experience Committee, sat down and spoke with two leaders in RESO about their journey to leadership, their heartbreaks, their heroes, and their hopes.

> Click into the article headline or graphic for links to the separate conversations with Alex Herr, VP of Washington/Montana RESO and interim lead for facility operations & construction, and Glenda Fossum-Smith, exec. director of RESO communications/Mission director for RESO and Oregon Shared Services.

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Celebrating Another Milestone in our PacMed Integration with 🧁s

To celebrate continued progress toward full technology integration of Pacific Medical Centers (PacMed), the IS MAC (Mergers, Acquisitions & Major Construction) team marked the occasion with cupcakes for PacMed caregivers to honor the milestone of the February 25, 2022 completion of their email migration.

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