The Affiliations team under IS Strategy & Project Office of GVP Ivette Rubens has been working clarify their scope and role. Typically, this group coordinates the budget and project initiation for growth-related IS requests over $2 million, then helps with the project orchestration and eventual integration of IS resources.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn more about the work of the Affiliations team and see a recent overview presentation from their director.
On December 18, IS hosted its third Microsoft “Excitement Day” in Lubbock, following recent events in Irvine and Renton. These events bring Microsoft trainers to our office to provide training for Shared Services caregivers who have had Microsoft 365 tools deployed to them, with particular emphasis on the Teams tool.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn more about new approaches tried at this event and see pictures from Covenant.
IS caregivers across regions often help mark the holidays with Christmas charity, including “giving trees” and drives that help ensure families in their communities have gifts to make the holidays a little brighter.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn about efforts to support families through gift drives in Washington and Southern California last month.
Nor-Lea Hospital District, a critical access hospital located in Lovington, New Mexico (in the southeast corner of the state), has signed an agreement to provision both Epic Connect (electronic medical record) and Tech Connect for picture archiving and communication system (PACs).
This marks the first Community Technologies partner in the Texas and New Mexico region, preceding Covenant Health transitioning onto Epic in 2021. It’s a positive, pioneering venture for PSJH and our broader IS family.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn more how this provisioning agreement will support this long-standing partner of Covenant Health.
As PSJH drives towards its goal of building a Modern Workplace, we continue to standardize on industry-leading tools that will improve productivity and efficiency. A major focus of this initiative is enhanced collaboration.
Currently, different teams across IS are using multiple applications to perform similar types of work. Some tools are outdated and lack key capabilities, and most do not integrate well with each other. This large set of disparate tools limits the effective management of standard functions like reporting, accessibility, traceability, and project visibility.
Beginning in January, we will transition to Azure DevOps, which enables effective collaboration on IS projects through source control, work tracking, and continuous integration and delivery.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn more about what this exciting transition of toolsets means for IS.
For this month’s area-aligned Mission Director-contributed profile of IS caregivers in service, we look how the tragic suicide in 2014 of a caregiver within Covenant IS united the team around suicide prevention and wellbeing causes.
IS caregivers in Texas found healing from the loss of their dear colleague by unifying around their local Walk out of Darkness event. Texas Mission Director Lee Turner also shares some reminders about taking care of ourselves and each other during the stressful holiday season.
> Click into the article headline or graphic for this hopeful Texas profile and holiday wellbeing reflection from Lee.
B.J. Moore continues to attract some great interest for PSJH and IS technology efforts from prestigious media outlets and conferences.
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> Click into the article headline or graphic to see these most recent interviews and posts.
An invite recently went out from CIO B.J. Moore for our next IS Open Forum on Tuesday, January 7, 2020, 9:00-10:00 a.m. (PT).
Look for the invite in your calendar from B.J. for the Teams live event link. We hope you join us!
Remember, you can always engage with the leadership team and each other via our IS Open Forum Yammer group, which we’ll also use for our Q&A during the session.
At last Thursday’s IS Q4 town hall, Adam Dial, SVP of Community Technologies and IS executive champion for our caregiver engagement efforts, shared a high-level overview of our October 2019 Caregiver Experience Results.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to see the full summary of IS survey results.
Thank you to all who joined us for our Q4 IS town hall. I was particularly pleased we were able to make more time on the agenda for a robust Q&A. We received over 95 questions, so my executive team and I spent quite a bit of time over the weekend trying to thoughtfully answer each one. (See town hall follow-up article, below.)
One of the questions that was asked in the Q&A was if my family had a particular Christmas tradition that we celebrated. Well, we try to do a family vacation each Christmas. Last Christmas and New Year we were able to be together on a cruise to Antarctica. It was a very special time together and marked our seventh and final continent to cross off the list for visiting as a family.
I also am excited that the IS executive team and various IS groups based in Renton are sponsoring a record number of families in need with Christmas gifts, in partnership with the Regina House, a Providence ministry supporting the community in southwest Seattle. There are so many of these generous efforts underway across IS and in various regions and I am humbled and motivated by the generosity I’ve seen . . .
> Click into the article headline or graphic to read the rest of B.J.’s Christmas note to the IS family, hear how his IS presentation to the PSJH board went, and see a holiday photo of his family.
