Project Management
Resume:
• 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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