Providence has partnered with Tech Knowledge Associates over the last decade to provide clinical engineering services at Covenant and legacy St. Joseph Health ministries. After months of careful discernment, Clinical Technology Services has decided to move all aspects of clinical engineering in-house.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn when TKA caregivers will transition to employment with Providence.
The work of Strategic Technology Enablement to build out a new Clinical Technology Services regional leadership model is complete. CTS is set to be the IS team with a continuous physical presence at all our ministries providing IS services to our clinicians and caregivers.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to read about the new CTS Regional IT and Clinical Engineering Operations Executive Directors.
Microsoft has released three new features in PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams to help ease your way. Try them out today. When done, take the Microsoft Skills Challenge at the end of the article to see how well you know Excel.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to see all the new features from Microsoft this month.
Since Kronos and Genesis data in the Cloud Data Warehouse includes caregivers’ personally identifiable information, Healthcare Intelligence has restricted its access to developers and users with justifiable need and appropriate authorization.
> Click into the article headline or graphic for the steps to request access if you are a data analytics consumer or developer.
Cybersecurity PKI Services has implemented a new Certificate Management System to generate and manage client and web public key infrastructure certificates. A PKI certificate is a critical cybersecurity component used to authenticate users, devices, and servers online. This new CMS delivers a user-friendly, unified automation and management platform to certificate owners throughout Providence enterprise networks.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn about the new CMS features and next steps for PKI certificates.
Providence Cybersecurity has implemented an Endpoint Privilege Management program across IS and RESO to ensure caregivers have the appropriate level of administrative rights over their Windows 10 computers. The program implementation has reduced the risk of accidental exposure of Providence data and systems to external threats while still giving caregivers the administrative rights they need when those specific rights are required.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to find out where EPM will be rolled out next.
As shared on our October 20, 2022 IS & RESO Open Forum, the nominating period for this quarter’s SMIle Awards is now open through November 18.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to access the link to our nomination form to recognize a fellow caregiver or team that exemplifies our Values, lead with Excellence, and demonstrate our IS & RESO Simplify, Modernize, Innovate principles.
Responding to caregiver feedback, the deadline for transitioning PST files and enforcement of the two-year email retention policy is being extended beyond December 5, 2022 for most caregivers.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to find out the new schedule.
Congratulations to IS’s Chris Hart and RESO’s Raul Canal and John Greeny for their service anniversary milestones.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to see all IS & RESO caregivers celebrating major five-year increment service milestones in Q4.
We had 1,973 caregivers join our October 20 Open Forum, during which our IS & RESO executives covered a wide variety of topics.
> Click into the article headline or graphic for the recording and slides.
