This, along with our desire to replace our electronic health record and revenue cycle system, contributed to OU Health's decision to completely overhaul our IT infrastructure in support of our long-term organizational needs.
OU Health strives to bring innovation to our patients.
As an academic health system, we operate one of 71 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in the country, Oklahoma's only Level I trauma center and the state's highest level NICU, offering high-quality patient care and running clinical trials leading to exciting new treatments.
A complete revamp of a health system's IT infrastructure is a daunting task.
The process has taken dedication and careful planning, the work of my team and the support of technology partners like Cisco to put together and roll out a solution across OU Health's sites.
OU Health officially launched in July 2021, following a historic merger that combined the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine faculty practice and OU Medicine, Inc. to create OU Health - Oklahoma's first fully integrated academic health system.
The merger aligned the OU Health clinical enterprise with national best practices across the healthcare industry and enabled the hospitals and clinics to become one unified and cohesive organization.
Since my arrival at OU Health in March of 2022, I have worked closely with our IT leadership team on the Epic migration project.
This initiative moved OU Health to a new EHR system.
At OU Health, we have a long-standing relationship with Cisco, and our lead engineer holds CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure certification.
My job requires me to be objective, so I attend events like Gartner Summits and the annual HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition to see what's out there.
OU Health, like most healthcare organizations, runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and our infrastructure must fully support a never-down scenario.
We expected our executives to approve less than what our budgeted request was, but instead we were given the green light to build everything we had asked for - a state-of-the-art network and system environment that would put OU Health on the map as a top-tier medical center.
Patient health includes their healthcare data, and we prioritize the security around our patients' protected health information.
Our third data center is for disaster recovery and has redundant links to all our hospitals, clinics, and ambulatory systems.
On June 3, 2023, OU Health went live with Epic and our new infrastructure.
OU Health can access what they need quickly, getting patients what they need faster.
My IT team will be able to leverage our new Cisco network to enable and execute OU Health's business vision.
We can expand our platform as needed to add powerful new applications like data analytics and population health management tools to aggregate patient information across multiple systems and technologies.
OU Health is on a mission to elevate and transform our organization into a top-tier academic health system.
This Cyber News was published on feedpress.me. Publication date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:43:06 +0000