Health Data

Location:

Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Posted:

October 05, 2017

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LAKSHMI RAVALI PONDUGALA

**** ******** ***, *** # ****, RANCHO CUCAMONGA, 91730

Ph. No: 317-***-****, E-mail: ac2lta@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Five plus years of experience in Healthcare IT and three years of immersive experience as an Epic Willow Analyst with strong analysis, build, training, testing, production support, validating & performing the maintenance tasks, reporting etc., skills being implemented in 12 hospitals of Prime Healthcare.

EPIC APPLICATIONS

oWillow Inpatient (Certified)

oRegistered PHARMACIST (Certified) in India

oOmnicell (Certified)

oOrders (Proficiency)

oReporting Workbench (Proficiency)

oRadar (Proficiency)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Epic Analyst July, 2014 – July, 2017

Prime Healthcare Management, Inc. Ontario, CA

oParticipated in implementation of the Epic – Healthcare IT software in twelve hospitals of Prime Healthcare Management, Inc.

oConfigured various Epic Inpatient Pharmacy module workflows/set-up(s)

oAssisted with compounding, repackaging build and workflows

oPerformed medication build including IMS for mixtures.

oPerformed Order Set Validation and Build.

oTrained the users for more than two years before implementation of Epic at their hospitals on certain concepts of Willow Inpatient Module (such as Dual Verification, Non-Formulary and Database Medication Ordering, Non-Physician Medication Ordering, Order Resolution, Patient Supplied Medication Orders, Pharmacist Medication Ordering, Physician Medication Ordering, Pharmacy Consult Orders, TPN Ordering, Antimicrobial Stewardship Scoring System, Dispense Preparation, Dispense Check, Bulk Charging, Reports, Dashboards, Advance Prep, Dispense Queue, Medication Dispensing, Medication Charging etc .

oSupported hospital clinicians, clinical staff, pharmacy staff and environmental services within a Go-Live setting

oWrote and revised specialty specific training materials, including Quick Start guides, Tip Sheets, work flow books, PowerPoint presentations and exercise booklets, for Epic Willow Module

oFacilitated small and large classroom training for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in Epic Willow software

oCreated a workflow book for the pharmacies of Hospitals involved in implementation of Epic Willow

oConducted dispensing analyses to discover dispensing needs of each unit and performed dispense logic build

oWell versed with Epic imports, exports, release note review, using certified Epic utilities, reviewing the release notes, participated in Upgrades and performed Upgrade Testing etc,.

oAnalyzed interface build between Omnicell and Epic to reconcile and assign identity ID’s for over 3000 ERX, NDC and NDGs

oBuilt SmartText label, performed and implemented modification per stakeholder/clients requirements

oAssigned as the Application Reporting Lead for Willow Module: Built Dashboards & Operational Reports for the Organization and assisted the clarity report writers to develop analytical reports for hospital management to improve daily operations

oMonitored and resolved issues in the interface error queue, billing error queue and validate barcode activity

oCreated test plans and performed quality assurance tasks for new build implementation

oConducted peer review testing of Willow teams test scripts and validations documentation to ensure end user satisfaction

oPerformed interface testing for Omnicell Cabinets and Pyxis and also do possess CERTIFICATION in Omnicell.

oCollaborated with members of multiple teams to provide command center support by triaging, updating, and resolving tickets

oSupported technical aspects of Epic build and troubleshooting of existing issues, resolutions and validations of corrective actions

oActive required member of the Epic command center Go-Live support team

oProduction Support – Interacted with the end users and resolved the tickets/issues in a timely manner.

oInteracted with the end users during Go-Live’s at their sites and assisted them with their questions

oParticipated in the team meetings, pharmacy committee meetings etc., also scheduled meetings with end-users in a timely manner to update/follow-up on the issues.

Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant August, 2012 – June, 2014

School of Informatics and Computing

Indiana University

oEvaluation of different Healthcare Hospitals based on the Patient Engagement Framework Criteria.

oConducted Privacy, Security and Interoperability evaluations of iPad in health care.

oAssisting students by providing the course materials for Clinical Information Systems, Business of Health Informatics, conducting assignments and grade them appropriately. Did advise students regarding the course work and grade improvement.

Data Analyst August, 2012 – February, 2014

Centre for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Indiana University, School of Medicine

oAnalysed the data for Centre for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics by using some statistical tools like SAS, SPSS and developed a database and created tables using SQL, Microsoft Access.

oDeveloped a database to integrate clinical drug side effect data from publicly available databases:

Developed Perl scripts to perform data processing and built a database using MySQL and designed the web interface with PHP, JavaScript and HTML.

oConducted Data Analysis on the search terms of Myopathy from the articles collected from PUBMED, PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY

INTERNSHIP July, 2011 - December, 2011

ORTIN LABORATORIES LIMITED, HYDERABAD, INDIA

oTrained as Laboratory Assistant in the QUALITY CONTROL DEPARTMENT

oMainly focused on the Qualitative analysis of the finished drugs like Oropyrin (Analgesic), Omeprazole (Antacid), Orthofen (Analgesic and Antipyretic), Ortibid (Beta-adenoreceptor antagonist), Sperm (antimicrobial) and Ortivas (Hypercholesterolemia and mixed dyslipidemia).

oIn Qualitative Analysis I have done Friability test, dissolution test, disintegration test, hardness and assay of finished drugs

oFamiliar with chromatography techniques and various techniques of Biotechnology like extraction of DNA using agarose gel electrophoresis, ELISA etc.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Health Informatics August 2014 GPA: 3.74/4.0 School of Informatics, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Bachelor of Pharmacy May 2011 GPA: 3.8/4.0

K.V.S.R. Siddhartha College of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Nagarjuna University), India

Registered Pharmacist

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

oAziz Unnisa, N. Manasa, P. Lakshmi Ravali. Development of Validated Spectrophotometric Methods for Estimation of Ethacridine Lactate in Pharmaceutical Formulations. International E-Journal of Chemistry.

oB. SaiMrudula*, N.K.D. Devi, B.R.Madhavi, P.L.Ravali, N.Manasa. Fruits are the chock-full treasure of the Nutrition. International Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Project 2010, Access.

Database & Tools: MySQL, MS SQL Server 2008.

Programming & Web interfacing: C, C++, Python, JavaScript, HTML, XML.

Statistical Tools: SAS 9.2, IBM SPSS Data Modeller 15.0

Terminologies mastered: UMLS, SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-9, ICD-10, Health Level 7, and Regular Expressions.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

2009 “Screening of anti-solar activity in the flowers of Tecoma stans and its usage as absorbent of UV-rays in cosmetic and pharmaceutical dosage forms intended for application on skin.”

2010 “Screening of anthelminthic and antibacterial activity in the peel of the fruit Annona sqamosa”.

2011 “Phytochemical evaluation of the bark of Soymida febrifuga and screening of the dye property of the bark, to be used as a natural dye in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical preparations.”

2012 “Cleansing, formatting and normalization of Public Health Data (Indiana Health new born data set) using Python programming and Data Analysis was performed using “Python, R Analysis and MySQL”

2012 Developed Semantic Rules using Regexbuddy and Natural Language Processing for the extraction of medical information.

2012 Identified the obesity and 15 types of comorbidities from the patient records in the Informatics for Integrating Biology to the Bedside (i2b2) Obesity Challenge data using Natural Language Processing and Text Mining for Biomedical Records and Reports.

2012 Analysed Public Health Data using “SPSS Software”

2013 Projecting my ideas regarding “Implementation of Electronic Health Record System at Small Hospital” and providing a brief scenario of project managing using “Microsoft Project 2010” and created work break down structure for breaking down tasks, identified of roadblocks during adoption of electronic health records and finding opportunities for improvements in the process of implementation of in EHR project.

2013 Reviewing of current G3 web-based training system and proposing some recommendations on development of training modules to improve this system.

2013 Performed data analysis on Indiana Public Health Data by building probability models using ANOVA, regression analysis and statistical graphs to predict STDs prevalence rate by using SAS.

2013 Written a research paper about ‘Meaningful Use’ criteria Use case along with measurements of profitability and quality for the MU case study (Patient Portal Implementation Improves Quality of Patient Care and Strengthens Preventive Care.

2013 Conducted literature review and analysed various CDSS tools in relation to randomized controlled trials in electronic prescribing using CDSS.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS, ACHEIVEMENTS AND AWARDS:

oSchool of Informatics Graduate and Professional Student Government representative.

oIUPUI Women in Technology active member.

oIndian Student Advisory Council executive committee member.

oMember in “PHARMA-FEST” organizing committee and successfully organized it for three consecutive years at Siddhartha College of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

oAwarded 3rd prize for poster presented on “Recent Advances in Plant Tissue Culture” in a competition held at Nagarjuna University in the event of National Pharmacy week celebrations-2009.

oAwarded 1st prize for poster presented on “Emerging trends in pharmaceutical analysis” in a competition held at Nagarjuna University in the event of National Pharmacy week celebrations-2009.

oParticipated in the International seminar on “Recent Research Trends in Pharmacology and Drug Development, 2010” Nagarjuna University on 31st of October.

LANGUAGES

oEnglish

oTelugu and

oHindi

REFERENCES

(1)Olukorede Ajiboye, Willow Team Lead

Ph No: 540-***-****

Email: ac2lta@r.postjobfree.com/ac2lta@r.postjobfree.com

(2)Fredricka Fineman, Willow Senior Analyst

Ph No: 714-***-****

Email: ac2lta@r.postjobfree.com

(3)Christopher J. Gudding, EPIC Program Manager

Ph No:218-***-****

Email: ac2lta@r.postjobfree.com

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