• Full lifecycle implementation experience with LastWord® and Carecast™/Centricity Enterprise.

o Pharmacy and CPOE

o Orders Communications/Results Reporting

o Registration, Medical Records, and Financial applications

o Clinical Documentation

• Other Vendor experience:

o Siemens SMS – Medical Records

o Siemens Soarian

o Interface experience with ADT Outbound (SMS), Orders and Results (Cerner Lab and IDX Radiology), Charges Outbound (SMS Financials)

o Change Management Systems – Remedy and Peregrine

o Lanier digital dictation for ADT Interfaces

• Best Practice and system optimization experience

• Proven Project Management experience

• Team Leadership roles for CPOE and other implementation initiatives

o Zynx Health orderset exposure

• Expertise with complex, multi-facility health systems implementing CPOE and upgrading application software

• Process workflow including current state, future state and gap analysis experience

• Process and execution driven and effective in both leadership and analyst roles alike

• Liaison to clinicians and medical providers for the adoption of development software

• Team mentorship, supervisory, and management skills

• Meaningful Use Education sessions and classes provided by GE Healthcare

• Clinical and ancillary application and departmental workflow experience

• HL-7 Interface specification, testing, building, and implementation expertise

• PMI Member – Scheduled PMP exam August of 2011

CAREER HISTORY

Blue Zone Consulting, Tacoma, WA 2011-Current

Senior Consultant

• Senior consultant for clinical information system implementations and upgrades.

• Project Team Leader for CPOE implementations for enterprise clinical systems.

GE Healthcare, Seattle, WA 2005-2011

Consultant

• Project Team Lead for CPOE Implementation for complex, 5 facility health system in Virginia.

o Manage Design and Build of CPOE order sets – Department builds for Nursing, Respiratory Therapy, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Therapy

o Develop Proof of Concept workflows and system scenarios

o Communicate with end users and staff on changes in workflow and process for CPOE rollout

o Work with Change management internal process to implement and rollout CPOE

o Communicate with clinicians on the CPOE build and changes in workflow

• Build experience on other client assignments:

o Provide on site client support during upgrade conversion

o Ran compares of the bed files and parameters to insure pathway synchronicity

o Verified the accuracy of the Pharmacy Compendium conversion

o Update user security and user preferences for

o Support the implementation Bar Code Med Charting

o Prepare test scripts for integration testing

o Validate charge processing from to external systems

o Clinical Documentation build

o Orders/Results support

Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ 1998-2005

Senior Systems Analyst-Project Leader

• Project Team Lead for two pharmacists, and three system analysts, in coordination with Nursing Department for Clinical Informatics

o Design, build, test Order Communications/Results Reports

o Test HL7 interface messages to the departmental systems

o Build user security classes in accordance with JCAHO and HIPAA standards.

o Design application screens utilized by nursing staff, unit clerks and physicians to retrieve patient specific demographic and financial information, lab and radiology results, medical transcription, etc

• Coordinate the application build for Radiology, Laboratory, and other ancillary department order tests

• Co-chair HIPAA Security and Privacy Committee

• Team Lead for Phase II Implementation including Nursing Documentation, Electronic Medication Administration records and CPOE.

• CPOE training for physicians and clinicians

Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ 1980-1998

Director of Health Information Management/Associate Director

• Responsible for day-to-day operations of the department staffed 24-hours per day 365 days a year by 89.1 FTEs including seven supervisors and in house transcription staff.

• Participate in JCAHO inspections to demonstrate criteria was met

• Participate on the following Task Forces:

o Regional Perinatal Center Task Force, Advanced Directive and Confidentiality Task Force, Transcription Task Force, SMS Implementation Task Force, Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Trauma Level Designation (1989-1990), Neonatal Level Designation, Pediatric Oncology Task Force, Cardiac Surgery Task Force, DRG Task Force.

• Developed and implemented a coding/transcription training course for HIM staff.

• Designed and installed network correspondence and physician incomplete record program.

• Participated on APC pilot project for New Jersey Department of Health.

• Implemented digital dictation system and networked word processing for medical transcription.

• Lead the Severity of Illness project for New Jersey Department of Health.

Pascack Valley Hospital, Westwood, NJ 1976-1980

Assistant Director of Medical Records

• Responsible for coding/abstracting, chart processing and correspondence sections.

• Performed chart analysis and ICD9-CM coding and abstracting.

• Medical billing and transcription of office consultation.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Project management and leadership skills with the implementation, upgrade and support of software applications

o Project management of clinical initiatives

o Physician and Clinical leadership facilitation

o Change Management

o Activation planning

o Issue management and application issue resolution

o Creation of integration test scripts and testing validation

Interface, data, and conversion mapping expertise

Process workflow design and recommendation experience

o Optimization of module functionality

o Current state and future state workflow expertise

o Gap analysis and customization research

Training, documentation creation, and curriculum development

o Testing Integration Script building and execution

EDUCATION

American Health Information Association – Health Information Technology Program

Certified as Registered Health Information Technologist – Certificate #16443

Kean College of New Jersey 1981 - 1982

William Paterson University - Wayne, New Jersey 1969-1971

ASSOCIATIONS/AFFILIATIONS

• American Health Information management Association

• New Jersey Health Information Management Association

• Project Management Institute (PMI) Membership

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