Clinical & Revenue Cycle Applications Org Changes

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Building upon organizational changes to the Clinical & Revenue Cycle Applications team announced back in June, Tabitha Lieberman and her leadership have announced additional changes focused on the clinical apps side of her organization to continue improving service delivery.

This change is a bit larger than the June change, but supports the current clinical group alignment, as well as having the Lieberman org teams work together increasingly across application lines.

> Click into the article headline or graphic to review Tabitha’s October 24 memo regarding the structural changes within her organization of IS, which includes links to “before and after” org charts.

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Ron Healy, MD, Awarded Alaska’s Birch Award

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IS Clinical Informatics Executive Director for Alaska Region, Ron Healy, MD, MS, was awarded Providence Alaska Medical Center’s Birch Award. The award was presented to Ron on behalf of Ella Goss, the PAMC chief executive, at the Oct. 21 Anchorage general medical staff meeting.

This regional award honors credentialed medical providers on the PAMC campus who exemplify our core values and Mission, and demonstrate excellence every day. His nomination came from other members of the medical staff and we couldn’t be more proud. Congratulations, Ron!

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IS Welcomes Murali Krishna as SVP of Providence Global Center, Hyderabad

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On our Tuesday, October 8 IS Open Forum, CIO B.J. Moore announced that Murali Krishna Koganti will lead our capacity-building Providence Global Center in Hyderabad, India.

Murali will officially join us on November 4, 2019.

He comes to PSJH from Microsoft and brings 20+ years of engineering and operations experience guiding global IT integration both there and at GE.

> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn more about Murali and the breadth of experience he brings to PSJH.

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CMIO Dr. Marino Interviewed by Becker’s on EHR Insights

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Becker’s Hospital Review recently chatted with Clinical Informatics & IS Strategic Partners SVP and PSJH CMIO Dr. Michael Marino.

In the late-September interview, he shares insights from his long career in medicine and working with electronic health record systems. While checklists that drive a standard of care for certain high-risk conditions can be powerful, excessive customization of EHR systems should be minimized, he advises.

> Click into the article headline or graphic for the link to the full article, and feel free to share with your network via LinkedIn.

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Project Management Certification Workshops for King County-Area Caregivers

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Ivette de Rubens, GVP of the IS Strategy and Project Management Office, shared a professional development opportunity with IS caregivers in Renton and Seattle’s Bank of America office locations.

Due to historical involvement of IS PPMO caregivers with the Puget Sound chapter of the PMI (Project Management Institute), they are looking to once again hold their weekend certification classes in our Renton office this fall.

> Click into the article headline or graphic for more information on this in-person development opportunity, preparing students for two similar certifications, the CAPM and PMP.

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UPDATED GO-LIVE: New Service Desk Phone Number Launches Nov. 7

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A few weeks ago, we announced that starting, Thursday, October 17, 2019, all caregivers should call the new Service Desk number 844-92-AskIT (844-922-7548). You can continue to use the existing numbers and extensions to reach the Service Desk. However, if you’re remote or outside of PSJH, please call the new number 844-92-AskIT (844-922-7548), starting on October 17.

> Click into the article headline or graphic for more details, including the revised phone tree options.

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Oracle ERP Heats Up with New Project/Solution Name and Video

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As we’ve shared, the Oracle ERP Cloud is our new digital business platform that will eventually support business processes and bring data together across PSJH Human Resources, Finance and Resource, Engineering & Hospitality Group (formerly Supply Chain). It will also will ease the way of our caregivers by making processes as day-to-day as looking up a pay stub far simpler.

The IS Enterprise Business Applications team under the leadership of GVP Frances Chao has been hard at work with Oracle and these partners laying the ground work and programmatic plan for the implementation.

> Click into the article headline or graphics to learn a bit more about the status of ERP efforts, the new project name, and to see the video of B.J. and Frances discussing how transformational Oracle will be for PSJH.

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Next IS Open Forum is Oct. 8

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B.J. Moore, CIO and IS EVP, recently sent the invitation to our next IS Open Forum. Join B.J., our IS executive team, and fellow IS caregivers on this informal call, where our leaders will provide us with quick updates, then open the floor for questions submitted via our IS Open Forum Yammer group.

Look for the invite in your calendar from B.J. for the Teams live event link and we hope you join us Tues., Oct. 8, 2019, 2:00-3:00 p.m. (PT).

We’ll plan on allowing extra time for Q&A, since we ran out of time for a good session of live questions during town hall.

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