Jeffrey A. Wexler Sr. Project Mgr. EHR, IT & Clinical Systems

And Connectivity Specialist

201-***-**** • ac6kh7@r.postjobfree.com

Progressive, decisive project management professional with an exemplary record of developing, leading, steering, implementing, and deploying enterprise projects in Healthcare. Successful and exemplary business acumen rooted in business analysis, data analytics, project management, and ROI. Utilization of emerging technologies and steering projects efficiently. Specializing in workflow analysis and remediation, educational initiatives, effectuated through face to face involvement or remote support and development. Focused on training, curriculum development and delivery. Specializing in big data analytics, system and workflow optimization and management of multiple concurrent projects. Meticulously attentive to efficient project management at the highest of level including scope development, quality control, change control and management, resource utilization, communications and vendor management

Professional Highlights

Sr. Project Manager Quest Diagnostics 7/2017 –Present

Lab Standardization-

IT Interoperability & Connectivity Team

Sr. PM Lead on standardization and migration of Hospitals, LTCs, Clinics, Practices, Patient Service Centers, and acquired laboratories from legacy systems for ordering, processing and resulting, and billing on all new Quest systems.

Successful on delivering converted legacy lab interfaces for the Baltimore and Greensboro regions.

Teams lead for hardware and software modernization for thousands of direct reporting clients, regional patient service centers and large hospital systems.

Expertly managed vendor relations for field training, budgets, timelines and conversion coordination to new platform in 3 large geographical areas

Team building through daily standups with IT, developers. Operations, implementation and billing.

Produced project report cards and presentations for executive staff and team leaders regarding Baltimore, Atlanta and Valencia esoteric National lab conversion project.

Sr. Project Manager Stony Brook University Medical Center– CPMP 1/2016–7/2017

Ambulatory Practice Expansion Stony Brook, NY

& Acquisitions

Led the expansion and standardization of Stony Brook Medical Center’s community ambulatory practices. Oversight of multi-location expansion, doubling ambulatory presence throughout Suffolk County. Extremely successful in managing 5 to 8 large scale concurrent expansion projects. 125% in increase in servicing the patient population through practice buildout and acquisitions and retrofitting. Prepared business project documentation, project plans, testing plans, beyond standard ambulatory practices for advanced Radiology Imaging Centers and new pathology lab. Project management development for new Ambulatory Surgical center.

Project director delivering a state of the art multi-specialty advanced care center (13 specialties, large radiology center on-time and under budget by $190k.

Detail tracking of practice workflows and remediation focused on Meaningful Use initiative as well as payment models such, MIPS, MACRA

Established multispecialty cardiac clinic affiliated with Southampton

Managed consolidation of several ambulatory entities, Int Med, Pop Health, Psych, Social Workers, etc. to establish PCMH community services and to attain NCQA certification

Sr. Project Manager Daiichi Sankyo via Knowledgent 9/2015 – 12/2016

Business Analyst Parsippany, NJ

Business plan development, project charter, requirements documentation and RFPs for Atrial Fibrillation project with Mass General/ Brigham and Women’s. Project development of Surveillance program educational delivery system for atrial fibrillation patients. Project management of application development, database integrated delivery system of clinical data, educational material, and patient population data.

Agile project management mobile app development, end to end interfacing and workflow, QC, UAT, data analysis and product distribution.

Managed all EMR end to end connectivity to systems such as Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, etc.

Vendor management of deliverables related to wire framing, app design, interfacing, database development, legacy system integration and clinical results dissemination.

Oversight and developed QC and UAT schema, change management, program launch and follow-up

Sr. Project Manager Atlantic Health Systems through EHRBox 2/2015 – 8/2015

EMR Specialist Morristown, NJ

Migration and implementation of custom EMR platform and consolidation of 25 different EMR systems moving to Epic Ambulatory. Project management of 60+ IT projects involving systems integration, construction and overall infrastructure.

Overnight of providing data extraction and normalization for importing and implementing to EpicCare Ambulatory.

Management of data extraction for archival purposes from 25 different EMR systems across 80 practices (eCW (V9 and V10), eMDs, GE Centricity, Nextgen, HPF, Practice Fusion …) for decommissioning of legeacy systems

Epic rollout and post go live management for 150+ practitioners in NY & NJ

Developed Project plan, designed and implemented custom SharePoint tracking system for EpicCare implementation, bug tracking, application integration.

Oversight of team utilizing Epic Bridges to develop interfaces, normalize data and to integrate with Epic

Senior Project Manager/ BA Caduceus, Inc. 3/2014-01/2015

RCM Specialist and trainer Jersey City, NJ

Designed, planned, implemented Athena One (Collector, Clinical & Communicator) rollout to 35 ambulatory practices (225+ Providers) for Englewood Hospital. Managed migration of practice workflow, RCM, & clinical standardization and all IT services across varied specialties (Cardiology, Orthopedics, and Primary Care. Interface oversight, chart abstraction & data migration from eCW9.0 to Athena clinical, instructional design, training and optimization, establishing and instituting best practices & standards across entire ambulatory network. Project manager, training manager, IT manager, Vendor Management for all Athena project components, project plan and go-live.

Managed $10MM implementation/conversion project for 30+ ambulatory, multidisciplinary physician groups integrating athenaCollector(Practice Management and Billing), Athena Communicator, Athena Clinicals

Oversight of $5MM Revenue Cycle integration using all of AthenaOne from eCW ( Ver 9 & 10), Medical Manager, Ingenious Med and HPF(Hospital Patient Folder.

Project Planning & development involving all stakeholders including data analytics tracking success measures for MU1, MU2, PQRS.

Vendor Management – NextGen, eClincialWorks, Medical Manager, Ingenious Med & hospital IT staff, Nuance Dragon Medical Integration with large orthopedic practice.

Spearheaded HL7 interface(s) design, spec development, testing & delivery

Billing & RCM Montefiore Medical Center thru Medix Staffing 06/2013–03/2014

Project Manager Yonkers, NY

EPIC revenue cycle systems analyst including claims processing. Analysis of revenue streams, remediated existing workflows and datasets from legacy systems. Team lead for Research/Transplant billing team, Physician and Hospital Resources team Data Migration processes and Clinical Procedures. Oversight of migration to single platform from disparate legacy systems for charge capture, claims processing, contract reimbursement and AR reporting and analysis.

Analyzed workflows & configuration for hospital billing across entire in hospital patient population for connectivity to Eagle Hospital Management System and Siemens Invision Hospital Information System.

Provided Visio documentation identifying specification & migration pathways from Treks and other legacy revenue systems.

Successful consolidation of legacy Claims Definition Master to Epic CDM for all In-Patient billing and insurance claims processing

Lead detailed analysis for in-hospital billing processes including mobile charge capture through claims processing.

Team lead on integration and consolidation of clinical procedures, physicians & hospital resources and project plans following SDLC methodology

Focus on claims generation, scrubbing, submission, adjudication and reimbursement models.

Client Services Director HIT Robert Half Healthcare 05/2012–06/2013

Managed Resources Healthcare Specialist Paramus, NJ

Developed healthcare IT programs and projects for clinics & large physician specialty practices in Cardiology and Orthopedic. Developed turnkey workforce for ICD10 changeover, MU Stage I & II attestation, EMR implementation for large and small practices utilizing eClinicalWorks,NextGen, Athena, AdvancedMD, and Allscripts.

Established Hospital and Ambulatory Meaningful Use Stage 1 & 2 projects

Developed training program for staffing recruiters to uncover/identify new healthcare staffing opportunities.

Designed/launched mobile app for medical practices regarding ICD10, RCM services, MU Stage I & II

EMR/MU Project Manager St. Barnabas Medical Center 1/2012–04/2012

EHR Transformational Specialist West Orange, NJ

Successfully managed $3.2MM project, providing support to 200+ primary care and specialty physicians regarding Stage 1 MU attestation. Led migrating of legacy practice management systems to Cerner Practice Management between Cerner PowerWorks (Ambulatory) and Cerner Millennium (In Patient).

Workflow analysis & modification in Cerner ambulatory EHR for 200+ physicians

Developed dashboards for tracking remediated workflows and training for new product rollout.

Project lead HL7 interfacing to Quest, LabCorp and Hospital lab system with Cerner EHR systems.

Taskforce lead converting GE IDX, Schedule.com and SCI practice management to Cerner Practice Management system.

Chief Technology Officer ABA 1992-2012

Tarrytown, NY

Directed all technology endeavors for a national organization. Managed all support teams and consultants for headquarters as well as thousands of businesses. Project leader in migrating publications to the web, developing full range of web based services, managing and designing all e-commerce initiatives, social networking projects and technology infrastructure for thousands of retailers. Designed, managed EDI and ERP initiatives between retailers, major publishers, wholesalers, distributors and vendors.

30% increased retention and 25% growth by designing new web site for 5,000

Designed / implemented a collection of databases providing better communications via hosted self-service apps

Generated $5MM by redesigned website focusing on community tools, wikis, blogs, and including full e-commerce functionality.

Developed, designed and deployed, 30% under budget, fault-tolerant backbone for IT, telecom, and core business functions, and engineered a robust backup and disaster-recovery protocol

Deployed & engineered at cost savings of 50%, plug-and-play hosted web service allowing thousands of independent retailers to rapidly deploy e-commerce capabilities including EDI services

Education

Project Management Professional (Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ)

PCCC – EMR/ EHR Certification Program, Workflow Analysis and Redesign Certification

Computer Sciences, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

Professional Certifications

Certified Meaningful Use Professional (CMUP), Certified HIPAA Security Professional (CHSP)

Electronic Health Records Certification

CompTIA EMR Certification

Industry Memberships / Committee Assignments / Industry Affiliations

Patient Centered Research Outcomes Ambassador (PCORI) – Washington D.C.

Patient and Caregiver Advocate for Clinical Trials development (Alliance for Aging Research

Guest Lecturer NYU Poly Graduate School, Brooklyn, NY

Member MGMA, AHIMA, HIMSS & NJHIMSS

Counselor and Workshop/IT Chair - SCORE (Counselors for Small Businesses)

Technical Expertise

Operating Systems Windows XP Pro, Win 7,8, 10, Unix, MAC OS, DOS, FreeBSD, Novell

Python

Application MS Exchange, OnBase, Dragon Medical, Novell Groupwise

Healthcare Applications Epic, GE Centricity & CB, Cerner (Millenium and Powerworks/Powerchart), eCW (V9 & 10),

(Clinical, PM, & RCM) Greenway, eMD, ADP AdvancedMD, Athena, NextGen, Allscripts,

Software MS Office, Clarity PPM MS Project, Visio, Business Object XI, Sage Software, Tableau 9.0

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