EPIC Training Project
We are continuing to work with Facilities
Management, others on campus and with UAHN to find a mutually beneficial
solution to the need for training hospital staff on their new EPIC electronic
medical records system. We are proposing
construction of training rooms that will be useful to us in the future as well
as some additional student study space that will be necessary during the
training project and very useful in the future.
It’s unclear at this point if there are any financially feasible
solutions.
We have, however, allowed the EPIC project team to
reserve our computer classrooms in the evenings and on weekends when we are
rarely using them and when UAHN will need to train their evening shift workers.
New 4th floor study carrels
The new carrels have been delivered to the
university but will not be installed until we conclude our negotiations with
UAHN regarding the EPIC training space.
In either case some of the carrels will go into the SE and SW corners of
the third floor.
Fundraising
Last week Jeanette and I met with all of the AHSC
Development Officers. We asked them to
remember the library as they speak with potential donors. We reminded them that donors who may not have
fond memories of their College, might remember a librarian who helped them or
remember enjoying a quiet place to study in the stacks. Shaun Sommerer, VP for Development for the
Health Sciences asked the group to keep their ears open for folks who might be
potential donors. We also answered some
questions about access to the library and the current sources of our funds.
Advisors
Also last week we met with the Library Advisory
Committee (LAC). We heard a presentation
from a representative of the AHSC Colleges who was proposing to locate a career
advising center in the library. The LAC
felt the idea was worth exploring further.
The group will contact me in the near future to discuss the details of
their proposal. The LAC spent most of
the meeting discussing the UAHN EPIC training needs. The group agreed that it would be good to
help UAHN as long as student study needs and library services are not
compromised.
