After that, I came and did a contract with UT Southwestern. In the early 90s, I worked for Perot Systems and we actually had the contract to do the information technology when Zale Lipshy University Hospital was built. Kirksey: Well, that’s a long story, but I’ll keep it short. Gamble: Talk a little bit about the UT Southwestern Information Resources - how that came about and what that department does. They are two strong partners that we have for patient care. A lot of their physicians are faculty members of the university so we have contracts with both of those institutions to supply a number of physician and management services at the clinical area. Gamble: What is the connection or affiliation with Children’s Medical Center Dallas and Parkland Memorial? What type of relationship is that? Paul University Hospital were combined and purchased and then integrated into our complete health system. Kirksey: Zale Lipshy University Hospital and St. Gamble: What were the hospitals that came on in 2005? We are not a large health system, although we do have the soup-to-nuts ambulatory and inpatient environments. In 2005 we bought two hospitals close to our campus and we’re currently building a new university hospital that will open in November 2014. In terms of healthcare, we have clinics and we have an ambulatory practice of, depending how you count them, 40 or so clinics. We’re not your typical community hospital or standalone hospital we’re integrated with those three missions. Our three missions are patient care, teaching, and research. Our health system is part of a larger organization with a larger mission. We see patients, but we are really an academic medical center. We’re one of the six health components, as they call us. Kirksey: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is part of the University of Texas system.

Why don’t you give the readers and listeners an overview of the organization - what you have in terms of hospitals, affiliations, things like that? Gamble: Hi Kirk, thank you so much for taking the time to join us today.

Certainly we’re interested in research there, but that type of big data requires large storage, much different networks, and high performance computing capabilities that your typical hospital or healthcare system won’t have. There is a move to integrate genomic data with the EMR. We had this idea that if we could win the nurses and the nursing staff and the clinical staff, that would serve us to win over the physicians, and that is, in fact, what happened. It took longer, but at each phase we had strong success and strong support. A lot of people advised us not to do this, but we decided we were going to just gradually phase it in, and I’m glad we did that. But it’s proven now to have been a very, very good decision for us. We learned a lot, and from there we just kept going. We had a couple of early starts and stops. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | RSSĪt that time they had multiple competing organizations, no unified email system, several networks, and several data centers, and so we proposed that the university should consolidate all of these operations into a single organization Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 16:05 - 14.7MB) LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED From Perot to UT Southwestern - “I was really interested in working with the EMR.”.In this interview, Kirksey also discusses what his team is doing to provide IT support for the organization’s three missions - education, research, and patient care being an early Epic customer what he believes we can learn from history and why “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” “If you want to see big data, come here,” says the CIO, who shares his thoughts on the ‘holy trinity’ of high-level analytics, the model UT Southwestern is developing for academic medical centers, and why he believes we’ve just scratched the surface of big data. It’s one of the most overused buzzwords in the industry, but when it comes to understanding what ‘big data’ actually entails, Kirk Kirksey believes there’s a gap the size of Texas. Kirk Kirksey, VP & CIO, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

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