Did you know that Providence has a policy regarding accessibility of both web and mobile content? As we attempt to ensure that all who reach out to our ministries for service can access that service and information equally, the IS QA team has resources to help.
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Providence has received the Magna Cum Laude Honor from the international healthcare software firm, Epic. The Epic Honor Roll program is designed to help the more than 400 organizations that use the company’s electronic medical record achieve continuous improvements in several functional areas. Once basic requirements are met, award recipients are judged on the use of strategies, lessons learned, and best practices.
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Starting Nov. 9, IS began copying individual file shares (also called home drives, network drives, or personal drives) used for work-related files and move them to each caregiver’s OneDrive account.
Files created between January 1, 2017, and November 20, 2020, will be copied from each caregiver’s files shares to their OneDrive account. When the copy is complete, data will continue to sync to OneDrive. After Nov. 20, caregivers should store their new files in their OneDrive account.
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We continue to take a more proactive approach to secure the information our communities entrust to us. Password resets will be required on all active directory user accounts (network logon accounts) once per year and will be required to meet a minimum set of security criteria, including access via Imprivata, our “tap and go” single sign-on application used in clinical environments.
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As our Caregiver Experience Committee continue to work on ways to enhance engagement and connection to our leaders across IS, we’re spotlight best practices employed by different parts of the IS organization that might provide inspiration for improving caregiver engagement on your own team.
This month, we look at a concept from the IS Strategy & PMO team that has helped drive meaningful skip-level connections between its IS executive leader down through her entire organization.
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Join a Modern Workplace training today! Increase your working knowledge of the Microsoft applications available to you. View the November schedule.
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On our Monday, Nov. 9 IS & RESO Open Forum EVP/CIO B.J. Moore and Sister Susanne Hartung, Chief Mission Integration Office for Shared Services, honored IS & RESO nominees and winners of two significant honors – the system-wide Values in Action Awards and the Oregon region Spirit of Emilie Awards.
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A “save the date” invite has gone out from EVP/CIO B.J. Moore to all IS & RESO caregivers for our virtual Christmas Party 2020. Please plan on joining the executive team and our combined organization of caregivers for some festive fun.
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The legacy Providence Health System Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) to modern Cloud Warehouse (CDW) data transition is underway, with the Healthcare Intelligence (HI)-owned migrations in-progress or complete within the CDW. For perspective, the old EDW environment includes 194 databases in development and production environments, of which HI directly owns and manages the migration of 34. All EDW data needs to be migrated, archived, or sunset by the target date of the end of March 2021.
> Click into the article headline to read the full advisory to data owners, outlining the migration of EDW to CDW.
Security patch compliance for our Windows and SQL Server estate is significantly below our monthly target of 95%. The threat due to non-compliance is very real and critical in the ever-changing security landscape.
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