Meditech Independent Clinical Consultant

SUMMARY

I am an accomplished healthcare professional with over 30+ years of pharmacy experience, including 15 years of MEDITECH implementations and optimizations as both a hands-on consultant and a project manager. I have worked with many versions of Meditech, including, Magic, CS, 6.0, and 6.1 Ready. Having worked as a Pharmacist and a pharmacy technician for many years, I have a good understanding of the workflow and operations of a hospital pharmacy. I have led many successful pharmacy and Ambulatory Order Management (RXM/AOM) implementations. While my strongest build experience is in the Pharmacy and RXM modules, I have also served as Project manager and team member for other clinical projects including; Physician Training for CPOE and PDOC, Bedside Medication verification (BMV) and electronic medication verification (eMAR) implementations, Order set builds for Drugs in POM and OM, and multi-facility Corporate Management Software (CMS) implementation and standardization projects.

I have excellent interpersonal and people skills and am comfortable working with both clinical and non-clinical individuals and groups. With a proven ability to meet client deadlines, I am still able to maintain a strong attention to detail and service excellence standards. I am a motivated and passionate leader or member of any team.

APPLICATION EXPERIENCE

Pharmacy (PHA)

Bedside Medication Verification (BMV)

Electronic Medication Record (eMAR)

Electronic Medical Record (EMR)

Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)

Ambulatory Order Management (AOM)

PDOC & PCM Training for Physicians

NPR Report Writer (RW)

Pyxis/Omnicell

Dr First & Web AOM Module

First DataBank & Medispan

Order Management (OM) & Order Entry (OE)

Scripting

Meditech Magic, CS 5.66, 6x & 6.1 Ready

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

Tri-State Memorial Hospital, Clarkston, Washington (6.1 Ready Implementation Go-Live Support) (06/22/2015 – 07/08/2015)

Provided at-the-elbow support for physicians during go-live.

Trained physicians that had not been able to attend group training.

Performed ad hoc Nursing training during the go-live.

Assisted with Pre-Live Activities.

The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ (Physician Training and Go-live Support for 6.1 Ready Implementation) (05/20/2015 – 06/18/2015)

Provided Individual and Classroom Training in PDOC and Order Entry for Providers

Set up test patients and scenarios for provider training

Completed Training Evaluation forms at the end of each provider education session\

Identified providers needing more support

Performed daily rounding and provider support during go-live

Prime Healthcare Glendora Community Hospital, Glendora, California (6.0 Pharmacy Optimization) (03/07/2015 – 05/14/2015)

Rebuilt all Medications in Emergency Room OM orders

Removed all inactive drugs from Physicians favorites and Replaced them with the correct drug.

Rebuilt Core Measure OM inpatient order sets

Wrote and ran NPR reports for the site to be able to monitor their drug dictionary

Worked with the site on a plan to fix their issues with Medication Reconciliation

Developed a plan for the site to clean up the AOM Dictionary for home meds.

Tri-State Memorial Hospital, Clarkston, Washington (6.1 Ready Implementation) (01/05/2015 - 03/14/2015)

Assessed Pharmacy Module Readiness

Reported CMS and OM order set Issues to Meditech

Built Medications for all OM Zynx Order Sets

Assessed RXM/AOM and developed a plan to prepare for e-Prescribing and Home medications

Downloaded and ran reports for the AOM Drug Dictionary

Inactivated over 3000 medications

Built over 1500 order strings for AOM for Meditech’s New Web based Ambulatory Module.

Prime Healthcare Glendora Community Hospital, Glendora, California (6.0 Pharmacy Optimization) (11/01/2014 – 01//0/2015)

Performed an initial assessment of the Pharmacy Module, Ambulatory Care Dictionaries, and

OM Order sets.

Rebuilt over 800 drugs in the drug dictionary– so they are CPOE ready for the physicians

Built order strings for all drugs in the drug dictionary

Rebuilt all IV’s including Titratables in the Order String Dictionary

Worked with Nursing on setting up the IV Flowsheet

Cleaned up the drugs in the AOM dictionaries and built order strings for physician prescriptions & Nursing Home meds.

Tested DTS’s before implementing the latest upgrade 6.07 PP5b

Instructed the staff on loading the FSV file and correcting the errors.

Helped rebuild the OM order sets (meds)

Palos Community Hospital, Palos Heights, Illinois, (Physician CPOE Go Live Support) (09/29/2014 – 10/14/2014)

Trained physicians to use favorites & Enter orders

Reported issues and submitted possible solutions

St. Joseph Health System, Orange, California (MEDITECH Standardization Project (Standardization from 15 facilities/8 HCIS to a single Universe/CMS controlled environment, with 4 HCIS’) (09/01/2012 -08/01/2014)

Served as Pharmacy and Ambulatory Order Management Project Manager

Developed & Implemented Pharmacy and AOM/RXM Project plans and timelines

Led focus groups with all 15 hospitals for pharmacy dictionary standardization

Acted as project manager for the CPOE pharmacy order sets

Led multidisciplinary team meetings, coordinating efforts across both pharmacy and financial modules

Oversaw & helped build the pharmacy (PHA) and Ambulatory Order Management (AOM/RXM) modules

Wrote NPR Reports to facilitate

Worked with both Nursing and Pharmacy teams to document Current and Future Workflows

Defined Critical Issues in the PHA module and worked with Meditech to correct them.

Led the Optimization effort to streamline physician medication lookup in AOM/RXM

Provided go live support for PHA, RXM/AOM and CPOE Order sets

Worked with the Meaningful Use Team on RxNorm, RxCui and First Databank to meet both Meaningful Use #1 and #2 requirements

Olympia Medical Center, Los Angeles, California (Meditech 5.65 CS Migration to Meditech 5.66 and Meaningful Use Implementation) – (02/01/2012 – 09/29/2012)

Project Manager/Team Lead for PHA, AOM/RXM, BMV and eMAR

Built Pharmacy Training materials & Trained Pharmacy Staff

Optimized Pharmacy dictionaries using Best Practice

Identified hardware needs for scanners, printers, med/liquid packagers, pill crushers and splitters.

Worked with the Pharmacy team to optimize the pharmacy drug dictionary Physician Med lookup in Physician order entry (POM)a

Scripted all CVX Codes into the MIS Vaccine dictionary

Set up Meditech’s new Vaccine Module

Helped Set up Meaningful Use 1

Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, Salinas, California (6.0 Meditech Magic Migration from Meditech 5.4 Magic and Meaningful use Implementation) (01/05/2011 – 03/31/2012

Pharmacy Team Lead

Assisted Pharmacy Core team with building drugs and pharmacy order sets and strings

Trained the Pharmacy core team in the difference between Meditech Magic and Meditech CS functionality

Worked with the Nursing & MIS Team leads on Meaningful Use

Translated Magic NPR reports into CS NPR Reports

Helped build CPOE order sets

Identified system issues and worked with Meditech to resolve them.

Priority Pack and DTS Testing

Provided Go Live Support for PHA, BMV, eMAR and POM

Dignity Health Organization, Las Vegas, Nevada (6.0 MEDITECH Standardization Project (Standardization from 30 facilities on various HCIS systems to a single Meditech Universe/CMS controlled environment) (07/01/2009 – 12/31/2011)

Project Manager/Team Lead for the PHA and RXM/AOM applications

Researched and Implemented Pharmacy Best Practice for dictionaries

Worked with the Team on developing one drug formulary for all hospitals

Reviewed Policies and Procedures for Medication Administration

Built all pharmacy, AOM/RXM dictionaries according to standards

Implemented Meditech at 6 hospitals.

Restricted Dictionaries using CMS

Built Pharmacy Training materials

Provided Weekly Status reports for the Pharmacy Team

Helped develop Change management processes

Mission Hospital, Mission Viejo, California (BMV and eMAR Implementation) (01/31/2009 – 06/30/2009)

Project Manager

Developed Project Scope and Project Plan

Completed Current and Future state workflows

Worked with Pharmacy and Nursing Teams for reviewing and revising pertinent dictionaries

Identified hardware needs for scanners, printers and drug packagers

Supervised scanning barcodes in the pharmacy

Provided Application support during go-live

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Science in Information Systems, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

Pharmacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City Utah

Project Management Courses from the American Management Association

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