THE IT&S 2015 ANNUAL REPORT

Employee
Engagement
Highlights
Evaluation and
Development
Excellence
Opportunities for employees to develop professionally
and engage with their workplace community continued to
attract widespread participation from all areas of IT&S:
IT&S’s Performance Excellence
Program ensures that
our organization places
appropriate priority on
Last year, in addition to
standard professional
development opportunities,
employees were required to
evaluating and developing
expand their understanding
IT HEALTHCARE CONNECTION
CONTINUED TO INSPIRE
PARTICIPANTS THROUGH
IMMERSION INTO THE
HEALTHCARE SETTING,
ENTERPRISE HIMSS
MEMBERSHIP REMAINED
A SOURCE OF IMPORTANT
RESOURCES AND
OPPORTUNITIES FOR
SOCIAL MEDIA WAS
UNCHARTED TERRITORY
FOR IT&S UNTIL 2015, WHEN
UNPRECEDENTED FOCUS
AND ADOPTION TOOK PLACE.
personnel, to maintain our
highly rated workplace culture
and to ensure managers at
all levels are aware of our
of Continuous Improvement
through a mandatory Simplify
IT course led by IT&S
leadership, where everyone
WHERE THE IMPACT OF
TECHNOLOGY IS READILY
APPARENT. SINCE THE
PROGRAM’S INCEPTION IN
INFLUENCE AND
UNDERSTANDING,
WITH MORE THAN 800
MEMBERSHIPS, PASSES
THIS RESULTED IN MAJOR
IT&S PRESENCE ON TWITTER,
FACEBOOK, LINKEDIN, AND
YOUTUBE, GENERATING
employees’ contributions
and career plans. Supervisors
hold regular one-on-one
was challenged to imagine and
submit process improvement
and cost saving ideas. By
2010, 502 EMPLOYEES HAVE
PARTICIPATED.
CENTENNIAL CONNECT, THE
ONE-DAY VERSION OF THE
WEEK LONG IT HEALTHCARE
CONNECTION EXPERIENCE,
WAS INTRODUCED IN MAY
TO THE ANNUAL HIMSS
CONFERENCE, AND OVER
25 SEATS IN THE HIMSS
LEARNING ACADEMY.
IT TRAINING DAY, AN EVENT
OFFERING TECHNICAL AND
CULTURAL/BEHAVIORAL
MORE THAN 625,000 ONLINE
IMPRESSIONS.
conversations to discuss
performance evaluation, goals,
and professional development,
confirming that employees are
heard, understood, and valued.
year’s end, after many of these
ideas were implemented
and enacted, our Simplify IT
program reported $41.5 million
in cost savings and more than
76,000 hours saved.
OF 2015 WITH A TOTAL OF 60
TRAINING TO ALL IT&S,
EMPLOYEES TAKING PART BY
ATTRACTED RECORD
THE END OF THE YEAR.
PARTICIPATION AND MORE
THAN 5,000 VIEWS ON THE
EVENT SITE.
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