Large PIG Annual Summary FY-2017-18: our successes, challenges, and plans for the coming year

Our Large PIG (actually JIG: Joint Informatics Group)

How do you give thanks and acknowledge your teams each year? I know WE don’t do it nearly enough. Here’s a partial list of our PIG achievements from 2017-18, now that we’re into 2019 (I know, I know, I can’t blog fast enough to keep up with smart amazing colleagues, a great problem to have).

Physician Informatics Group Annual Executive Summary
Submitted by CT Lin MD, August 20, 2018

Vision statement: We improve physician/APP and team wellness and effectiveness by building extraordinary relationships and innovative tools.

FY2017-18 Achievements

  • Go Lives: MANY Clinics, 2 Hospitals
  • Sprint: 17 Sprints in 2 years, 496 providers, 315 staff
  • PI’s conduct specialty-specific and general projects to improve provider and staff efficiency and effectiveness in patient care
  • PI’s create and educate via newsletters, tip sheets, videos, meetings
  • PI’s help review, test, educate and implement Epic upgrades
  • PI’s develop and lead service line governance for UCHealth
  • PI’s chair or co-chair or participate in at least 2 dozen UCHealth governance committees to guide both Epic EHR development as well as UCHealth provider leadership overall.

Examples of successful projects:

  • Conversion of OIC (infusion) orders from “referrals” to “Therapy Plans” for safety, efficiency
  • Creation of 5 new UCHealth-wide service lines to facilitate Epic EHR build, reduce unnecessary variation
  • Creation of an APP Epic Concierge meeting to improve effectiveness and training
  • Dragon Speech expansion and elimination of Partial Dictation
  • Creation of a PI onboarding document, training, getting-up-to-speed
  • Creation of an Opioid management steer and Epic customizations to support initiative
  • Implementation and expansion of innovation partner tools within Epic: AgileMD, RxREVU, APPRISS
  • Implementation of Radiology Indications software, phase I
  • Implementation of patient access to images via My Health Connection
  • Use of EHR, scheduling and billing data to improve clinic operation efficiency, effectiveness
  • Creation of an Universal APSO note to improve both standardization AND customization
  • Creation of an MA-smartform to dramatically improve consistency of data capture in Practice Transform
  • Connection of Epic data to ORIEN (oncology research network) with dramatic efficiencies
  • Implementation of iECG, physician informatics/organizational change support to change EKG capture platforms across all hospitals/clinics
  • EPCS: E-prescribe Controlled Substances deployment of 2-factor authentication
  • Support of Palliative Care and Spine Surgery smartforms, note templates, registry reporting tools
  • Standardization of UCHealth Order Sets, physician leadership, phase I
  • Support of AMC Neurology Practice Transformation, note templates, flowsheets
  • Book Club: Read books this year on Organizational Change, Communication, Connection: Design of Everyday Things, Good to Great, Great by Choice, Crucial Conversations, Leading Change, Nudge
  • Creation of Small PIG program to mentor newer PI’s

Opportunities for Improvement

  • Counseling and coaching of PI(s) to further improve internal and external communication and leadership skills in a rapidly growing organization
  • More emphasis on analytics, use of information in our PI role, beyond “go live” and “optimization”

Plans for Coming Year

  • Implementation of approved Sprint Team 2, improvements on process for Team 1
  • Implementation of expanded rollout of Practice Transformation (changing the MA:MD ratio to 2:1), and supporting EHR tools
  • Support of ongoing hospital go lives
  • Ongoing redesign of PI support of clinic go-lives and onboarding individual providers
  • Incorporate analytics into Sprint
  • Dragon speech QI/research project: Dragon in the exam room
  • Radiology imaging shown to patients QI/research project
  • Expansion of Innovation projects
  • Expansion of MHC questionnaires, possibly PROMIS questionnaires
  • Acceleration of the Order Set Synchronization project
  • Further reducing the EHR burden, improving patient care and human connection, in everything we do

CMIO’s take? What’s YOUR take? What do you plan for the coming year?

Author: CT Lin

CMIO, UCHealth (Colorado); Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine

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