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CLINICAL TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY
159 centre ’ s processes and systems team . In 2016 , the team moved to sign with the Epic Team and began implementation at the end of that year , the same time that Wakim was made IT Director .
CLINICAL TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY
The clinical evolution of AUBMC has been concurrent with Wakim ’ s career . In his role as IT Director he works with the CMIO , Dr . Ghassan Hamadeh , on IT strategic planning with an executive team at the medical centre . Wakim ’ s responsibilities often focuses on governance and ensuring that processes are streamlined between different teams . “ We ’ ve created governance models where requests are sent to the multidisciplinary stakeholder groups , including physicians , nurses , administrators and IT analysts . These requests are reviewed and if approved , are sent through to project management for scheduling and execution ,” he explains . Wakim ’ s role is to also ensure that these projects are implemented as smoothly as possible from a change management perspective .
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