https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/cms/10.1016/j.mayocp.2018.08.036/attachment/550f6a58-9ea6-4efe-9432-bb5c53fecaeb/mmc2.mp4 Congratulations to Dr. Sieja and team for publication of UCHealths' experience regarding EHR Optimization Sprints. You can do it too! Read about our published experience at Mayo Clinic Proceedings. https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(18)30788-2/fulltext#appsec1 There are several online supplements: additional specifics about how we conducted the program (30-60-90 day planning meetings, agendas for the 2 weeks of activity, … Continue reading Video: Dr. Sieja discusses EHR Optimization Sprints
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Optimization Sprints: Improving Clinician Satisfaction and Teamwork by Rapidly Reducing Electronic Health Record Burden (published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings Feb 2019)
Sprint team action shot! Congratulations to Amber Sieja, Katie Markley, Jon Pell, Christine Gonzalez, Brian Redig, Patrick Kneeland, co-authors on our published article in Mayo Clinic Proceedings this week. I've spoken of some of the details on this blog, so I'll let the paper speak for itself. Nice to be recognized! Coming soon: a video … Continue reading Optimization Sprints: Improving Clinician Satisfaction and Teamwork by Rapidly Reducing Electronic Health Record Burden (published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings Feb 2019)
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 … Continue reading Large PIG Annual Summary FY-2017-18: our successes, challenges, and plans for the coming year
“E in EHR does not stand for Fax” — Steve Hess, CIO
I constantly enjoy the creativity of my colleagues. In this case, Steve Hess, our CIO at UCHealth, made this statement during a discussion about our fax-server software linked to our EHR. As our organization has grown, we have added hundreds of clinics, and now we're approaching a dozen hospitals in our network, all on a … Continue reading “E in EHR does not stand for Fax” — Steve Hess, CIO
Letting patients file their Advance Care Planning (Advance Directives) online via Patient Portal (Hillary Lum et al)
Dr. Hillary Lum https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885392418310479 Thanks to Dr. Lum for her persistence and clarity of purpose. She led a team of physician leaders and IT staffers through a complex process, resulting in a first-of-its-kind online tool: The ability for patients to complete their Advance Care Planning and upload the results using an EHR (electronic health record) … Continue reading Letting patients file their Advance Care Planning (Advance Directives) online via Patient Portal (Hillary Lum et al)
Open notes in a Resident clinic: research study results
Research study paper is here: http://ow.ly/6eY530jYZJy We're published! Thanks to co-authors Bradley Crotty MD, Corey Lyons MD, and Matthew Moles MD, we helped a multi-health system collaborative to study the idea of Open Notes in primary care residencies (family medicine and internal medicine at University of Colorado Health system), with research findings above. Ultimately there … Continue reading Open notes in a Resident clinic: research study results
Happy holidays from the Large PIGs, JIG, and CMIO
Dave Corry arriving late to our group photo, to the CMIO's amusement and dismay I hope that you are making plans to celebrate the season, to connect with friends, colleagues, family, and take time for yourself. I consider myself so fortunate to work with such a great group of informaticists or informaticians (inforMAGICIANs?!), or informatics … Continue reading Happy holidays from the Large PIGs, JIG, and CMIO
The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr (book review)
One of our book club books, for the 'clinical decision support' team for the electronic health record at our institution. We have now read it in our Large PIG book club meeting (the Physician Informatics Group: we try hard not to take ourselves too seriously). Some of us were depressed after reading. The initial optimism … Continue reading The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr (book review)
“What is a Large PIG”? or, How to set up a Physician Champion for success during a hospital EHR go-live. Guest Post by Jonathan Pell MD
UCHealth, like many other health systems, are extending their EHR network to affiliate hospitals and facilities. Whether a hospital is coming from a paper charting system or from a different EHR, there is dramatic culture change for independent physicians as they get ready to adopt the system-wide EHR. Here are some challenges presented by physicians … Continue reading “What is a Large PIG”? or, How to set up a Physician Champion for success during a hospital EHR go-live. Guest Post by Jonathan Pell MD
CT Lin MD, CMIO and his views on world domination (news, Becker)
Kidding. Not kidding. https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/crucial-skills-for-aspiring-cmios-q-a-with-uchealth-s-cmio-dr-c-t-lin.html Further thoughts about Becker's Hospital review for interviewing me and talking about my role as CMIO. I have enjoyed their series on CMIO's, and our collective vision: Clinicians, in the care of patients in an increasingly complex world Technologists, who whisper to the Ghost in the Machine Leaders, who learn (some … Continue reading CT Lin MD, CMIO and his views on world domination (news, Becker)