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Brief history

Brief history.

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Brief history

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  1. Brief history Since the 1890s, we have committed to excellent patient care and innovation and medical leadership – Sanford Health (Sioux Valley Hospital and Physician Group), Sioux Falls, SD; MeritCare (St. Luke’s Hospital and Fargo Clinic), Fargo, ND; and North Country Regional Hospital (Bemidji, MN). • Sanford Health and MeritCare merged to create a new system on November 2, 2009 • North Country Regional Hospital merged with Sanford Health in on March 1, 2011 • Headquartered in Sioux Falls and Fargo • Community owned – private non profit charitable, volunteer governance; 21 member Board of Trustees representing the entire region • Model of integrated health: hospitals, physicians, health plan, research, education • Largest non-profit, rural health care system in nation • Serving eight states and three countries: SD, MN, IA, NE, ND, OK, CA, OR, Ghana, Israel and Ireland

  2. The Sanford gift • In 2007 Denny Sanford made the largest gift ever to hospital or health care organization in the country - $400 million (Gift to Johns Hopkins in today’s dollars = $125M) • The gift has the specific purpose of funding Sanford Initiatives: children’s health & research development • In 2011, he gifted $100 million to fund the Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Center • Other donations to Sanford Health have helped build the Sanford Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls and other initiatives • Funded Sanford Medical School developments, Mayo Clinic collaboration, and Sanford-Burnham Research

  3. Sanford today • 900+ sponsored physicians • 500+ APPs • 20,000+ employees • 112 communities • 36 hospitals • 33 long-term care facilities • 116 clinic locations • 70,000 Health Plan members • Market population of over 1,700,000 • 130,000 sq. mi. contiguous service area + other locations

  4. Information Technology Mission “Enabling quality healthcare through technology” Information Technology Principles • Implement information systems that advance the mission and vision of Sanford Health. • Provide leadership in determining the information technology direction. • Seamlessly make information available where it’s needed, when it’s needed. • Provide secure, reliable information technology solutions that are innovative and cost effective. • Keep abreast of changing and emerging technologies. • Implement systems that are integrated across the Health System. • Provide a flexible, redundant computing infrastructure to eliminate single point of failure for critical information technology components. • Bring technology and timely support to all locations of our health system. • Promote and support the development of efficient workflows using information technology.

  5. Healthcare Security • Role based security • Provisioning / De-provisioning • Sanford’s De-provisioning requirement process • LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) • Implementation • New application standards • Single Sign-on to external hosted applications

  6. Healthcare Security • Securing mobile devices • BYOD* • Security controls / Applications** • Encryption • Backups / Laptops • Removable media *http://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=4596 **http://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/interviews.php?interviewID=1507

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