On behalf of B.J. Moore, our CIO and IS EVP, and the IS exec team, we look forward to seeing you at our next IS Town Hall, Monday, September 23, from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. (PT). It will be an important time to hear insights from B.J. and our execs, get critical business updates, and have some Mission-centric inspiration and recognition.
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As the PPMO and QA organizations transition to new leadership, we’ve shared that some of our project/program management and quality assurance (QA) caregivers may move into the groups leading the projects they support and out of the central IS PPMO. The prior PPMO model, formerly led by Chris Briggs, GVP of the new Strategic Enablement Function, is now becoming a slightly refocused Strategies & Project Management Office, under the direction of new GVP Ivette de Rubens.
> Click into article headline or graphic to read more about Tabitha Lieberman’s recent memo regarding the org changes in her team.
Lenny Levy, Interim Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and interim VP leader of the Information Security team, is departing PSJH as the team transitions under new permanent leadership of a CISO we’re about a week away from being able to announce. Lenny has been instrumental in guiding the Information Security team’s transition back into Information Services (IS), as well as providing guidance and prioritization for our broad portfolio of foundational cybersecurity projects in his ten months as interim leader.
We thank him for his contributions to our executive leadership team and wish him the best in his next endeavor!
IS summer barbeques have been a great time to get outside the office with other caregivers and visiting execs! Your local event may be coming up—read on for full list of remaining barbecues.
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The IS PPMO team within IS Business & Consulting Services is evolving our project intake process to be more streamlined and adaptive to different types of project requests.
The new processes will address feedback the team heard on how we can make intake faster, more accurate, and reduce redundancy.
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Shared Service Chief Mission Integration Officer Sister Susanne Hartung and our Mission teams are looking for nominations for caregivers who exemplify the Providence St. Joseph Health values: compassion, dignity, justice, excellence, and integrity. These caregivers may be great nominees for our Values in Action awards.
> Click into article headline or graphic to access the nomination form and more information. All nominations are due by Oct. 1.
In the upcoming weeks, enterprise remote caregivers will have a new method for securely connecting to PSJH assets using the GlobalProtect Client VPN solution from Palo Alto network. The main benefit of this new VPN technology is always-on access to your VPN while working remote, versus having to login every time, as was required by the earlier VPN solutions across PSJH. This new VPN technology enhances the protection we extend to our mobile workforce outside the traditional network perimeter.
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The sale of our Southern California Orangewood office location has been postponed for the foreseeable future.
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Adding a secondary security factor for ensuring that any authorized users are accessing our web applications is crucial for the cybersecurity of PSJH. Soon, Okta single sign-on (SSO) web access will look different for remote caregivers who will move from one-factor (user ID & PIN/password) to multi-factor authentication for PSJH Okta.
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Please join CIO B.J. Moore and our IS executive team on our next Open Forum scheduled for September 3, 2019. Look for the calendar invite from B.J. Moore.
Also, in case you couldn’t join . . . B.J. gave a recap of the latest in IS announcements during a packed Open Forum on Aug. 9.
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