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Clinical Informatics Specialist

Location:
Houston, TX
Posted:
September 23, 2017

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SAHITHA GAJJALA

**** ***** ***** **, ******, Houston, Texas- 77386 Cell: 713-***-**** ac2fui@r.postjobfree.com Professional Summary

• Clinical Informatics Specialist for 1.5 years guiding non-clinical IT Team in development and testing of a web- based Practice Management Software suited for Emergency and Outpatient healthcare settings. This software can be integrated with Electronic Medical Records(EMR).

• Clinical Pharmacist for 3 years

Skills

• SQL (2016), SSIS, Clinical SAS 9.2, SPSS, Tableau, MS Office/PowerPoint/Word

• Analytical thinker, attention to detail, fast learner Work Experience

Clinical Informatics Specialist - Practice Management Software, 02/2017 – Present Infodat International Inc, Houston -Texas

• This is a web-based state-of-the art HIPAA compliant Practice Management Software that can be integrated with small outpatient practices and typical emergency room (ER) EMRs. It was built to suit workflows for carrying out seamless day-to day operational, administrative and financial functions with two step authentication sign-ins/log-ins enabled for various stakeholders such as the practice manager, front desk/receptionist, medical coders and billers.

• Acting as Clinical liaison and gathering requirements from the clients and communicating to IT department along with all the work-flow processes

• Acting as Scrum Master to ensure the Agile software development using JIRA tool and organizing daily stand-up meetings

• Designing Mock-up screens using Balsamiq tool

• Maintaining the databases in SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS) for the electronic claims and payments (ERA) interchange between billing services and trading partners(insurances/payers)

• Integrated the software with a third-party tool which works on SSIS platform for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

• This software is still under development and is expected to prototype in the month of November,2017 Clinical Informatics Specialist - Hospital Electronic Health Record 12/2016 -02/2017 Infodat International Inc., Houston-Texas

• This is a web based software primarily built to cater the clinical workflow of oncology department, entailing the features to capture, document management of cancer patients both at the point of care and follow-up care

• Tested the application and prepared Test scripts Work and Research History

Supplemental Radiology Analyst - Epic Ambulatory Oncology 06/2016- 08/2016 Harris Health Systems, 9250 Kirby Dr. Houston, Texas

• Shadowed clinical analysts on Beacon project (Epic oncology for ambulatory) implementation processes such as building clinical content like treatment protocols, therapy plans to suit complex oncology workflows

• Analyzed a new feedback system namely RL Solutions and prepared Test scripts for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for system admin and file manager roles

• Participated in face-to-face training sessions for clinicians and end-users, a major workflow walkthrough session, conference calls with physicians/oncologists Patient Educator and Clinical Pharmacist 01/2013-12/2014 Jaya Hospital, India

• Educated patients on medications, side effects, dosage, frequency and route of administration

• Reviewed patient records for case studies

Thesis title: “A comparative study on Pre-gestational and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus with Maternal and Neonatal outcomes”- prospective observational pilot study 01/2012-12/2012 Care Hospital, India

• Reviewed paper medical records and interviewed diabetic women and followed-up until delivery and a week post- partum to capture the effect of management on maternal and neonatal outcomes

• Analyzed the maternal outcomes of diabetic women managed on diet alone, oral medications, and/or insulin to non-diabetic women

• Conducted predictive analysis using SPSS Software on maternal and neonatal outcomes Research Assistant as Clinical Pharmacist 10/2010-12/2011 Rohini Hospital, India

• Studied drug interactions, adverse drug reactions such as Warfarin, Sulphadrugs, Digoxin, NSAIDs

• Studied various drug side effects by collecting the population data Education

Masters of Health Informatics 2015-2016

University of Texas, Health Sciences Centre, Houston, Texas Recipient of Doris L. Ross Scholarship

Masters of Pharmacy 2010-2012

St. Peter’s Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kakatiya University, India Bachelors of Pharmacy 2006-2010

Vaagdevi College of Pharmacy, Kakatiya University, India Publications

• Dang Y., Gajjala, S., Johnson, CW. (2016). Analysis of Heparin and Aspirin Administration on Acute Ischemic Stroke from International Stroke Trial (IST) (Paper poster to be published in AMIA 2016).

• Gajjala, E. S., Madduluri, N., Velpula, V., Giri, A., Bhumathati, S., Gajjala, S. Antioxidant activity of newly synthesized imidazole (2-(2-benzylidenehydrazinyl)-5, 5-diphenyl-1, 5-dihydro-4H-imidazol 4-one) (2014). Int J Pharm. 4(1): 241-246.

• Gajjala E.S., Madduluri, N., Velpula, V., Giri, A., Bhumathati, S., Gajjala, S. Anti-inflammatory activity of newly synthesized imidazole (2-(2-benzylidenehydrazinyl)-5, 5-diphenyl-1, 5-dihydro-4H-imidazol 4-one)

(C22 H17 N4.00.OCl) (2013). Asian J Pharm. Biol. Res. 3(4) 1-3. References References upon request



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