Modernizing Medical Image Sharing with Ambra

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Imagine a world where medical images can electronically follow the patient, regardless of where they were taken. This would provide clinicians the ability to access any medical image type from an archived single repository that maintains the privacy and security of the data. The diagnostic applications team within the IS Clinical & Revenue Cycle Applications organization has selected medical image sharing vendor Ambra to help modernize the way we share critical patient images, such as x-rays and MRIs.

> Click into article headline or graphic to learn more about Ambra and our enterprise-wide imaging initiatives.

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Kadlec Go-Live Update

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The weekend of Saturday, August 17 was our final instance alignment go-live, with the successful cutover across Kadlec sites in Washington’s Tri-Cities and surrounding region. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, Aug. 17, we successfully cutover to the PSJH instance of Epic at Kadlec and Prosser. We also brought Beaker lab live at Providence St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, the final legacy Providence California site to transition from Sunquest. Not to be forgotten, this go live is the final legacy Providence rollout of Cupid Cardiology, a journey we started in 2015.

> Click into article headline or graphic to read more about our successful go-live.

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IS Execs in the News and Other Items to Share via Social

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CIO B.J. Moore shares a behind-the-scenes look at the recent Oracle video shoot at our Renton system office with GVP of Enterprise Business Applications, Frances Chao. Expanding on how cloud ERP will help our digital transformation, they talked about their careers in IT and their passion for our PSJH Mission. We’ll have the full video in the coming weeks, as it’s still in post-production.

Tabitha Lieberman, SVP of Clinical & Revenue Cycle Applications explains just how transformative the IS team at Providence St Joseph Health can be. They recently completed a multi-part project resulting in moving from three different Epic installs across 12 organizations to one install.

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PPMO, QA, and Other Business & Consulting Services Team Moves

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Over the coming several weeks, we will be taking the next step on our journey to evolve to the new IS operating model. As IS GVP Chris Briggs prepares for his new role leading Strategic Enablement, and IS prepares to welcome Ivette de Rubens as GVP of the IS Strategy Project Management Office, he has shared the reporting model for his PPMO, QA, and other Business & Consulting Services teams/roles.

> Click on article headline or graphic to read more about the upcoming leadership changes and view the IS Reference Org Model.

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Celebrating IS Mission Service across Regions . . . from Young to Old

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Starting with King County Mission Integration Director Tracy Brown’s feature highlighting IS caregiver service at Renton’s Mother Joseph Farm, we kicked off a series of articles that will introduce each of our new regional Mission Directors supporting IS with a reflection and a profile of IS caregivers in service for each region. In a few weeks, Sister Susanne Hartung, Chief Mission Integration Officer, will be sharing a reflection and more of this work, but in between we have inspiring profiles of IS Mission service to share across regions.

> Click on article headline or graphic to see more about these IS Mission Service events in Anchorage and Seattle.

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Dale Peterson Retirement

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Dale Peterson is retiring, and his colleagues have some insight to his strength, knowledge, and unique character from their time together at Providence. He will clearly be missed. Before he goes, here’s a look at his career with Providence over the past 37 years.

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AD Consolidation Impacts on Caregiver Login at SJH

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Consolidating users and resources onto a new, standardized, cross-PSJH domain is going to be essential for our implementation of Epic across legacy St. Joseph Health ministries. This foundational work is so critical, we’re taking it slowly. We’re starting to communicate to our legacy St. Joseph Health caregivers in Southern California about this upcoming change ― the most caregiver-impacting piece is the change they will experience with how they log into web application via Okta single-sign on.

> Click on article headline or graphic to read the communication we’re sharing with our caregivers at St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley.

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B.J. Answers PSJH Core Leader Questions

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In the August 16 edition of IS Update, CIO B.J. Moore encouraged all of IS to check out the July 31 PSJH Core Leader Forum that he was invited to present at for Irvine- and Renton-based core leaders via webcast.

Core leaders in all functions of PSJH, across regions, have now had the opportunity to see the recording via our system core leader newsletters. For our own IS organization, he wants to make sure that every level has the opportunity to hear the story that IS is sharing across PSJH. We need to continue explaining to our partners and customers the overarching value of all the investments of our time and energy and how they are connected to the various pieces of information they learn as they are migrated to new tools.

> Click into article headline or graphic to access the July 31 Core Leader Forum and Q&A.

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