Our March IS Mission Focus is Service! Across our regions, look for IS execs and teams sponsoring and supporting opportunities to commit your time to compassionate outreach and serve as direct IS ambassadors of God’s healing love and the steadfast service of the poor and vulnerable, as expressed in our PSJH Mission.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn more about ways to get involved this month.
On Thursday, February 21, caregivers on the Community Technologies team, along with Rachelle Yeates, IS Mission director, hosted a February birthday party for the residents of Seattle’s Providence Vincent House. It’s just one of many service activities held in our local communities by IS teams.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to read more about CT’s fun volunteering outing.
Homelessness is a crisis in many of the communities where IS caregivers serve, and Anchorage is no exception. Covenant House charities, part of Catholic charities, hold annual “sleep out” events across the U.S. to spend a night sleeping on the streets to show solidarity with our nation’s homeless and raise funds for their shelter and to combat the issue.
IS strategic partner exec. director for Alaska, Jessica Oswald, will be taking part in this year’s Anchorage Covenant House Sleep Out as part of a Providence St. Joseph Health team. This means that, on the night of March 22, Jessica and others will spend an evening in fellowship with homeless youth staying at the Covenant House shelter, then take to sleeping bags and pieces of cardboard to spend the night in the street.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to read a note from Jessica and learn how you can help.
The PSJH Physician Enterprise group has selected the Epic Tapestry module as their solution for managed care. This new-for-PSJH Epic module will be critical for allowing payor-like management of HMO patient populations and for direct connections to government systems to help successfully enroll, manage risk, and meet requirements for Medicare Advantage and Marketplace plans. The IS Clinical & Revenue Cycle Applications team will be Physician Enterprise’s tech partner in this exciting new program, extending our Epic leadership into a new space.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to read the memo regarding PSJH’s selection of Tapestry and see the article below sharing a bit about the Tapestry program team we’re recruiting for!
A number of recent transitions of teams into IS and within the clinical and rev cycle applications space have taken place since the New Year.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to see Tabitha Lieberman’s memo outlining the details of these recent moves and structural changes within her organization.
As we heard at Town Hall, the recent Obix forklift upgrade across 30+ sites was a consistent, passionate collaboration of multi-disciplinary PSJH project teams, including Clinical Apps, Epic-Stork, Interfaces, Server, PMs, and application analyst teams.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn more about the project, the “repeatable wins,” and just what was involved in this project that has received great reviews from our Institute and clinical partners.
When B.J. Moore joined us for his second Open Forum with IS caregivers on Feb. 19, we got updates from IS and B.J., David Endicott, and others fielded questions. We also had great “IT shop talk” about everything from block chain, to AI and machine learning, to chaos monkeys at Amazon, and much, much more.
> Click the title or graphic to see the schedule of upcoming Open Forum sessions.
PSJH Information Services is getting some great attention from the media, with articles we’ve shared in recent weeks featuring our new CIO/IS EVP, B.J. Moore. Here are some additional articles that we’re going to start sharing directly from LinkedIn, with the hopes that IS caregivers will share them within their professional networks, add their own thoughts, or, at least read and “like” the posts!
> Click into the article headline or graphic to see, like, and share some of the recent great energy and news coming out of IS with your social networks!
Training materials for the new shared PSJH version of Epic will be available March 18. Training will be online, self-directed, and focused on the most significant changes for specific roles.
The upgrade scope of work for this April instance alignment will go-live in Alaska on April 6, 2019, followed by Washington, Montana, Oregon and California on April 7, 2019, as the first regions on the new shared Providence St. Joseph Health Epic instance.
> Click into the article headline or graphic for training/education resources.
The IS Enterprise Business Applications team has been hard at work, prepping the May 19 go-live of the Kronos v8.1 upgrade. Although legacy SJH also uses Kronos, it is managed by HR and not impacted by this upgrade.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to check out the scope and details of the upgrade, including a one-pager detailing the new features and training/support resources.
