From the Leadership Team
This month's newsletter is dense, so we will keep this brief so you can focus your attention on all of the important work happening in and around our Division.
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GIM Proud
We are proud to share the 2019/20 GIM Year-in-Review. The Year-in-Review is our take on an annual report and highlights many of our Division's remarkable accomplishments over the past year. You can find the Year-in-Review here. Congratulations and thank you on a banner year!
Shout-out to Drs. CT Lin, Amber Sieja, Rich Altman, and Jeanie Youngwerth and their colleagues on their recent publication in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The article highlights several innovations their team developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to support and enhance patient care. You can read the full article, Clinical Informatics Accelerates Health System Adaptation to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examples from Colorado, here.
Another shout-out for Drs. Jean Abbott and Matthew Wynia and their colleague in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities on their viewpoint article published last week in JAMA. The article, Ensuring Adequate Palliative and Hospice Care During COVID-19 Surges, discusses the ethical imperative of addressing threats of scarcity during a pandemic, which includes palliative and hospice care. You can read the full article here.
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GIM Team
Please welcome Dr. Allie Gips to the team. Dr. Gips just completed a Palliative Care fellowship here and is now transitioning to a faculty appointment with the inpatient palliative care service. She will split her time between Emergency Medicine and Palliative Care.
On September 25 we celebrated National Research Administrator Day. Research Administrators in GIM have a wide range of responsibilities from project management to budget and grant management to compliance and regulatory review, just to name a few. If you checked out the GIM Year-in-Review, you know our research enterprise has had a remarkable year and our Research Administrators are key component of that success!
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Things You Need to Know
Project CORE (eConsults) will begin billing for eConsults soon with a target date of November 1, 2020. In preparation for this, they are offering virtual discussion sessions to review what this means for you, how it impacts the workflow, and how it impacts patients. They are offering the sessions on:
October 28 at 12:00 pm
October 28 at 5:00 pm
October 29 at 7:00 am
You can find more information and the session zoom here.
The new OurNotes function in Epic will go-live on October 8, 2020. OurNotes is an MHC questionnaire that is sent to patients three days before their appointment that asks how they have been since their last visit and what three questions they have for their upcoming visit. For more information you can review the Executive Summary, Provider Tip Sheet, and MA Tip Sheet.
UCHealth is transitioning to Epic Secure Chat as a primary means of communication on October 24, 2020. In the meantime, there are a couple of things you can do in order to be prepared:
1) Confirm your information in AMiON is accurate. If you need help or to make a change please contact Alicen Spale.
2) Review the Secure Chat etiquette document here.
On November 2, 2020, federal rules will require immediate release of provider progress notes (inpatient and outpatient), and all laboratory, radiology, and pathology reports to the patient via My Health Connection. To learn more about the background of this rule, the impact to our current procedures, examples of best practices, and recommendations for workflow adaptations click here.
The Department of Medicine Wellness team is hosting a research and administrative staff event on October 27, 2020 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm. For more details and to register for, 'Burnout and Wellness in the Time of COVID - Finding Meaning in the Time of a Pandemic,' see the event flyer here.
Here are a few valuable COVID-19 links:
School of Medicine COVID-19 page
Department of Medicine COVID-19 page
Division of Infectious Disease COVID-19 page
Department of Psychiatry COVID-19 support
UCHealth The Source
CU Anschutz Medical Campus COVID-19 page
The Center for Bioethics and Humanities COVID-19 page
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On the chance that you skipped down to this section without reading anything else, please go back and review the 'Things You Need to Know' section. There are several important clinical updates in that section relating to eConsults and new workflows in Epic.
The Culinary Medicine series offered by the Anschutz Wellness Center is now available virtually! Internal Medicine patients can take participate in this program for free when they use the code CLINICGUEST at registration. Class themes include Meet Me in the Mediterranean, Cancer Care, Weight Management, and Diabetic Cooking - which is taught by our GIM Dietitians Kristina Comer and Stephanie Snell. For more information about class times and how to register, click here.
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Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Schilling and her colleagues on their recent publication in the journal Computers & Security. Their article, Efficient determination of equivalence for encrypted data, describes an alternative approach to record linkage that is less computationally intensive while preserving the integrity of the security model. You can read the full article here.
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