Are You a Managed Care or Epic Tapestry Guru? Answer Your Calling with Us!

As IS prepares to transition Providence St. Joseph Health onto the Epic Tapestry managed care module, we’re putting out the call to specialized health IT gurus who have prior Tapestry or managed care IT expertise. We’d love for you to share this link with anyone in your network you think might be the “Tapestry gurus” we’re looking for on this new team. Or, share the LinkedIn post to help us find the external managed care module/program expertise we are searching for!

> Click into the article headline or graphic for more on Tapestry and the highly-specialized roles we’re looking to fill.

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One of Our Own Selected as Alaskan Top ’40 Under 40′

Alaska IS Strategic Partner exec. director, Jessica Oswald, was nominated by regional PSJH leadership in her region for the Alaska Journal of Commerce’s 2019 “Top Forty Under 40” and selected by the publication’s selection committee on Feb. 1.

Congratulations, Jessica! Our Alaska regional leadership truly values your partnership.

> Click into the article title or graphic to learn more and see the announcement.

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In Case You Missed Out

B.J. Moore encourages us to engage with our upcoming Open Forums, where he’s going to be a regular presence in his first months getting to know IS. Thank you to all nearly-500 caregivers who joined our first Open Forum with with our new CIO on January 31 – his very first week with us!

> Click into the article title or graphic for a link to view B.J.’s first Open Forum, where he introduced himself to IS and fielded questions from a wide range of IS caregiver roles and regions .

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Epic Impacts from Planned Polyclinic Partnership with OptumCare

On January 25, Tabitha Lieberman, SVP of Clinical & Revenue Cycle Applications, and Adam Dial, SVP of Community Technologies shared a joint memo with IS sharing news that our Epic Connect partner The Polyclinic of the Seattle area was sharing changes in their electronic health record (EHR) strategy.

These changes follow their recently announced partnership with OptumCare and will mean them not adopting our PSJH instance of Epic and transitioning to an new, non-Epic Connect EHR system.

> Click into the article title or graphic to see the detail of Tabitha and Adam’s full memo.

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TEO Leaders Make Good on Their WAN Tran ‘Hair Dares’

Last month, we celebrated the great news of us hitting our ambitious 2018 network transformation goals in the nick of time.

TEO leadership threw down the gauntlet with a highly-personal challenge to help drive the team to success in the final days of 2018.

> Click into the article title or graphic to see what it looks like to truly “take one for the team” in order to inspire and reward great outcomes.

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Open Forum Change of Plans – February 19: Re-Save Calendar Invite with New Link

We had such great interest and participation on our January 31 IS Open Forum with incoming CIO/IS EVP B.J. Moore, that we’d like to continue the momentum with more time with B.J. getting to know IS and fielding your questions, as well as some other functional updates.

> Click into the article title or graphic to find the new meeting invite to open and save to your calendars, replacing the prior one if you’ve already saved it.

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Thanking YOU, our IS Caregivers and Improving Recognition

February’s IS Mission focus is all about recognizing and appreciating the contributions of IS caregivers.

Our “Because iCARE”-themed efforts for the month include light breakfasts across regions and enhancements to the IS recognition program, with new tiers for those who have received high numbers of kudos via SuccessFactors.

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Thank You for the Welcome, IS!

I just wanted to let IS know how honored I am to finally be onboard and how much I appreciated the welcome from IS. I’ve been able to meet a number of our Renton caregivers as I got my bearings on campus here and received some warm notes of welcome via email. I also want to thank our nearly 500 caregivers who joined last Thursday’s IS Open Forum call to hear some my very early thoughts having just joined and attended our January 28 PSJH Board retreat.

> Read the rest of B.J.’s note by clicking his graphic or the title.

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