Nursing Informatics Clinical Command Centers

Nursing Informatics

Nursing and Clinical Informatics, in partnership with Medical Informatics, provides strategic and operational leadership for the design and development of clinical facing technology within CommonSpirit. This work is part of driving care transformation across the clinical enterprise. Highlights of the past year’s accomplishments include:

Ann D. Shepard MSN, RN-BC, SVP, Nursing Informatics and CNIO

Regulatory Nursing Informatics

Epic Enhancements

Cerner Enhancements

Other EHR Enhancements

• EHR updates/modifications to ensure compliance requirements to support CMS programs for Promoting

Interoperability, electronic Clinical quality Measures, Merit

Based Incentive Payment Systems. Readiness includes meeting the requirements for CMS, The Joint Commission, public health reporting for the Immunization Registry,

Syndromic surveillance, reportable lab results and electronic case reporting. • Interoperability compliance for sending and receiving electronic health information and for providing electronic access to health information by patients.

• Implementation of a successful Epic upgrade • Development of an Epic South instance with collaborative

EHR governance in support of the Healthcare Operating

System • Addition of Epic Refuel to the South Instance of Epic (Texas/Tennessee/Georgia)

• Implementation of annual Cerner upgrade • Glendale, CA Cerner Health Check completed • Extension of current Cerner standard with registration/ finance functionality at 14 Arizona General sites

• Collaborative effort for EHRs in achieving Board of

Stewardship Trustees approved goals for patient safety, quality and patient experience • COVID-19 updates to EHRs as treatment and therapies evolve • Development of rapid EHR onboarding processes for supplemental staff and travelers • Readiness preparation for Kentucky Epic conversion at 6 hospitals and 92 clinics • Optimization and support with ambulatory clinics • Successful virtual pilot in Texas for EHR user training