An invite to the next IS Open Forum went out from CIO B.J. Moore last Thursday for our next IS Open Forum on Monday, November 25, 9:00-10:00 a.m. (PT).
Look for the invite in your calendar from B.J. for the Teams live event link and 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.
CIO B.J. Moore has been active in the press and on social media over the past weeks, delivering some great insights in interviews. Brett MacLaren, acting chief data officer and healthcare analytics GVP, was quoted in the Microsoft customer stories blog about how Azure is helping us scale-up modern data management tools to help us build on HI’s work developing and harnessing the PSJH data lake.
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> Click into the article headline or graphic to view B.J.’s YouTube interview with Coding Blonde and two-part interview with healthsystemCIO.com, as well as the Microsoft Azure story featuring Brett.
The Community Technologies program, which provides our IS technologies to other organizations and joint ventures, continues to grow. Since May 2019, ten new independent hospitals and clinics have joined the Community Technologies family.
With these new partners Community Technologies has grown to 68 Epic Connect partners (53 clinics and 15 hospitals), 1,211 providers, and over 750,000 connected patients.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn a bit more about our newest partners.
Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to accompany Rod Hochman, our Providence St. Joseph Health President & CEO, and other PSJH leaders, on a pilgrimage to the Providence Mother House in Montreal.
Being there and seeing archives and building plans of some our original ministries gave me a real sense of connection between our roots in Montreal to our mission today. It was also very meaningful to see, first hand, that the Sisters have been, and continue to be, an example of unwavering resilience and determination in the face of adversity. Their expression of servant leadership is also very humbling…
> Read the rest of B.J.’s message, where he relates some of what he learned on pilgrimage about the Sisters to what IS must lead PSJH through today.
As we shared back in September, the Okta platform for single sign-on (SSO) web application access is being decommissioned on December 1, 2019, as we transition to Azure SSO.
We want to ensure users expect to see the Azure SSO login pop up during direct application access and access via web applications portal. We also share guidance for setting up multi-factor authentication in Azure SSO, which will become mandatory in the coming months.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to review the article now running in PSJH system newsletters about the transition and what to expect.
CTO and TEO SVP Rick Stover recently shared a memo with regional and shared service leadership and finance officers sharing that we have created an enterprise print group within TEO’s field technical services group to identify significant cost reductions across the numerous regional vendors we use for our printing hardware and services.
A new enterprise print strategy will allow us to achieve economies of scale and best pricing and contract terms than with the current print contracts inherited from legacy organizations. It will also help us support a more caregiver-friendly experience around printing.
> Click into the article headline or graphic for details on how we’re starting the evaluation process that will lead us to an enterprise-wide strategy around printing.
As IS continues the rollout of our standardized platform of Modern Workplace meeting, collaboration, and productivity tools like Teams and Office 365 tools, Microsoft trainers are now visiting major locations across PSJH. These “buzz events” bring Microsoft on-site, in conjunction with the OneTeam group of TEO, to provide valuable demos, tips, and answer caregiver questions.
The buzz event with Microsoft trainers was held on Monday, October 21, at Irvine’s Park Place offices, followed by a second event on Tuesday, October 29, at Renton’s Valley Office Park location.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to see photos of the two Microsoft events, as well as links to a recording of one of the Renton sessions and all the OneTeam resources for learning our O365 tools.
Ivette de Rubens, GVP of the IS Strategy & Project Management Office shared a memo on Monday, October 28, detailing some changes to her organization following the recent decentralization of project management and quality assurance & testing functions.
Ivette’s new organization is focused on driving strategic planning, financial and people processes, scorecard, metrics, and business cadence across IS, as well as consistent tools and best practices.
> Click into the article headline or graphic for full details about how this group is re-aligning to support this critical cross-IS work.
As we continue our Modern Workplace journey, we will be moving files from our local servers to the cloud.
This process will take place in several phases. In the upcoming months, we will begin by syncing non-shared caregiver home drive content within the folder structure, to the PSJH Microsoft Office 365 OneDrive space.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn about the upcoming phases of our file share migration and resources that will support the transition to OneDrive.
As of October 15, all St. Joseph Health caregivers have transitioned to Microsoft Office 365. This gives caregivers access to OneDrive for individual file storage. With this new, cloud-based location available, Home Drives will no longer be provisioned for caregivers.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn how this will simplify the onboarding process and where SJH core leaders and caregivers can get resources to help familiarize themselves with OneDrive storage.
