At the most recent CIO and CNIO/CMIO Spring Forums, we celebrated our exceptional inaugural cohort of The Academy AWS Technology Fellows Program!
Within their transformative two-year journey, Fellows complete a strategic action project. This month we are thrilled to feature a strategic action project from three recent graduates from Intermountain Health who came together to drive meaningful impact within their organization and the broader healthcare landscape.
2025 Academy AWS Technology Fellows:
Mona Baset, VP, Digital Servises, Intermountain Health
Tamara Moores Todd, MD, Interim Chief Health Informatics Officer, Intermounta Health
Jason McClellan, RN, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer (interim), Intermountain Health
Action Project Title: Unified EHR Across Intermountain Health
Opportunity & Problem Statement
The Unified EHR or "Epic Journey" project focuses on consolidating nine different EHRs across three regions into a single Epic EHR by September 2025. Following a series of mergers, Intermountain faced a complex EHR environment with nine different systems across three regions. This fragmentation hindered efficiency and the ability to manage, support, and enhance the various platforms effectively. By consolidating to a single EHR system, Epic, Intermountain aims to leverage internal resources better, improve patient care and engagement, and achieve high caregiver and technical team engagement
Methods
Using a multi-team approach, with clinical and operational partners taking a key role, focus on four key objectives/ workstreams to support a successful implementation of Epic. Jason's workstream focuses on Engaged Caregivers - establishing an effective clinically and operationally led EHR governance system, incrementally improving EHR experience leading up to the September EHR implementation, and ultimately creating an unparalleled experience post-implementation.
Results & Conclusions
Objective: Engaged Caregivers KPI - Net EHR Experience Index Improved form 75th to 95th percentile for all caregivers. Initiatives: Established a clinically and operationally led enterprise-wide governance program comprised of more than 250 constituent governance groups who rendered more than 13,000 decisions over 14 months. Rationalized optimization and pending project backlogs with EHR expansion efforts. Support clinical integration and unified One Intermountain EHR expansion. Align clinical content and practices across the enterprise.
Applications for THMA’s Fellowship Programming are now open. If you are interested in learning more or nominating a healthcare leader, please reach out to LDPrograms@hmacademy.com.