Physician Champions

Physician Champions are integral to large change initiatives like Epic Together. They are the liaison between clinicians and administrative and technical staff.

With credibility, visibility, insight, and knowledge, your Physician Champion is here to help you along the way and mitigate against physician burnout as we transition to Epic. Think of Physician Champions as your eyes and ears throughout the Epic implementation, ensuring a balance between the organization’s needs, Epic best practices and provider considerations.

Duties of an Epic Together Specialty Champion

The Epic together Specialty Champion will serve as the key contact for his/her specialty throughout the pre-implementation, Go-Live and stabilization phases of this project. Accountable to the RWJBH System CHIO and Medical Group CMIO, duties for this role will include:

• Providing leadership and oversight within his/her specialty related to the Epic together project to ensure awareness, engagement and readiness for adoption of the new system
• Working closely with Epic together project members to coordinate the responsibilities of physician and other provider SMEs from his/her specialty
• Serving as provider spokesperson via written and verbal mechanisms to communicate between physician/clinical audiences, project team and executives
• Negotiating consensus to enable RWJBH to maximize the potential of the Epic Foundation System and achieve applicable process standardization through the use of technology.
• Advising the Project Team on appropriate training and support models to ensure physician/provider needs are adequately met
• Participating in special events designed to inform and prepare providers for optimal adoption of the new Epic EHR
• Performing such individual assignments as management may direct such as participation in testing, workflow validation sessions, training “dry runs”, etc.
• Participating on various committees to ensure provider needs are addressed while upholding the Guiding Principles of the Epic together project
• Effectively managing the balance between patient care and project responsibilities