Reflecting on My PSJH Journey So Far

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Today, I’m headed to New York City to speak on behalf of PSJH at an Ideagen Summit, where our president & CEO, Rod Hochman, will also speak and accept an award, and where Rhonda Medows, M.D., president of Population Health and CEO of Ayin Health Solutions will address a group in a conference hall at the United Nations. In my conversation on stage at the NASDAQ, I know I’ll be asked about my journey to health care from Microsoft, the potential of technology to improve health care, and about how our work in IS ties to our 165-year Mission as a combined organization. I remain very excited to talk about these at any opportunity and I want you to feel some of that same excitement as part of IS.

I’ve been feeling reflective as I take stock of my first six months leading IS and getting to know PSJH. I wrote a blog post about how I’ve tried to bring myself up to speed, but also bring other leaders and our PSJH partners onboard with our IS strategic vision. It’s only then that we can reimagine the status quo.

In this IS Update, I asked Tabitha Lieberman and Brett MacLaren to share a little bit about their experience at Epic UGM at the end of last month . . .

> Click into the article headline or graphic to read the rest of B.J.’s note.

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Celebrating the Life of Mother Emilie Gamelin

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IS team – On September 23, as IS gathers for its Q3 town hall, Providence St. Joseph Health will be holding activities related to our annual celebration of one of our foundresses, Mother Emilie Gamelin.

Upon the 168th anniversary of her death, we look back at the tremendous impact her short life of just 51 years had on creating this organization. Her commitment to serving the poor and vulnerable endures. Not only did she serve her society in her time, she helped create the legacy of a Mission that continues to thrive today.

> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn a bit more about this remarkable woman.

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AP and Procurement Changes Are Live

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On September 2, 2019, the Resource, Engineering and Hospitality (REH) Group had their go-live of process changes to Accounts Payable (AP) and Procurement across St. Joseph Health and Covenant Health ministries to bring alignment across PSJH. These changes mostly involve formalizing the standard PSJH processes, but do change the how caregivers are being asked to interact with Procurement and AP for customer service and support needs.

> Click into the article headline or graphic to see the memo that was shared with system core leadership.

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CIO Thought Leadership and IS Caregiver Mission Service Making News

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CIO B.J. Moore has been active in the press and on social media over the past weeks, delivering some great insights in interviews, but also a reflective post on his first six months in health care with Providence. In addition to this great thought leadership, we also have a “feel good” post on social media of IS caregivers in Mission service!

> Click into the article headline or graphic to see B.J.’s insight and the IS team getting their hands dirty in Renton’s Mother Joseph Farms.

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Adjusting our Training Resources to Focus on Teams

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As the OneTeam program supports the training and adoption of our Microsoft collaboration and Modern Workplace tools across all parts of the enterprise, we are adjusting our resources to best suit the needs of our caregivers. This includes providing more dedicated resources for introducing caregivers to Microsoft Teams.

> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn how OneTeam Live! is adjusting the hours of its weekly caregiver support line to provide one hour specifically for formal introductory training on Teams, as well as all the training resources we continue to make available.

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B.J. Joins Chief Risk Officer Sheryl Vacca for Webcast Chat

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On August 15, CIO and IS EVP, B.J. Moore, joined Chief Risk Officer, Sheryl Vacca, for an executive leadership webcast. Now that the webcast has been made available to core leaders across the system, we wanted to give all IS caregivers the chance to view their chat.

> Click into the article headline or graphic to hear how B.J. frames our IS key initiatives, Sheryl shares those of Risk, and how both teams are taking steps to ease the way for our caregivers.

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Tabitha and Brett Share What Excited Them at Epic UGM 2019

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This year’s UGM was held August 26-29. IS and Providence sent a large contingent of our leaders and caregivers to share our system’s leadership using Epic. The Verona, Wisconsin event also celebrated the milestone of Epic’s 40th birthday with a “Summer of ’79” theme.

> Click into the article headline or graphic to hear from Tabitha Lieberman and Brett MacLaren about some of the things they were excited to share and learn about at UGM last month.

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