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Greater Philadelphia/New Jersey Area, Nj, Us

Expanse Health is a healthcare technology professional services firm, with over 20 years of healthcare technology and operations expertise. We work closely with our clients to help them navigate the dynamic, rapidly changing ‘expanse’ of healthcare. We meet our clients where they are on their technology journey and tailor our services to meet their individualized needs. Expanse Health will assist them in building technology strategies that will meet their short-term organizational needs of today, while building the framework for their future needs of tomorrow.Our team has deep industry expertise across Revenue Cycle, Practice Operations, Clinical Operations, and Value Based Care domains. We serve as trusted advisors to our clients and are committed to providing them the utmost level of quality and service, while delivering innovative, scalable, and cost-effective solutions for long-term success. Expanse Health’s goal is quite simply to earn our client’s trust and to become their trusted partner.We partner with clients of all sizes; from newly formed organizations to rapid-growth focused organizations, and to fully matured healthcare organizations. Our clients consist of MSO organizations, medical groups, physician practices, health systems, private equity, and vendor partners.

Marlton, New Jersey, Us

Consensus Health is a high-performing, multi-specialty medical group in New Jersey focused on delivering high quality, improving health outcomes, and lowering the total cost of care. Consensus Health owns and manages New Jersey’s oldest Independent Physician Association (“IPA”) with over 1,000 providers throughout the state.• Reporting directly to the CEO, responsible for leading Technology Support, Onboarding & Implementation, Performance & Optimization, and Data Analytics departments. • Directed a team of 20+ IT professionals and IT departmental P&L of $15M, inclusive of all technology support and operational services.• Recognized as the organization’s leading ‘firefighter;’ often aiding the CEO in navigating complex technology, clinical, and financial issues, encompassing the management of vendors, providing continuous communication to stakeholders, and finding prompt resolutions to minimize impacts to organization.• Revitalized and transformed the IT portfolio by implementing strategic technology solutions, including advanced data analytics and integration systems.• Led the seamless technological integration of a large medical group, incorporating 50+ providers and 250+ staff, ensuring continuity and efficiency without loss in patient volume or revenue.• Rolled out Microsoft PowerBI and restructured data governance frameworks to bolster decision-making and operational efficiency, while tracking organization OKRs and KPIs such as revenue, EBITDA, growth, cost reduction, customer satisfaction, and provider productivity.

Marlton, New Jersey, Us

• Reporting directly to the CIO, Senior Technology leader responsible for leading 10+ IT professionals across Technology Support and Onboarding & Implementation departments.• Direct oversight of IT departmental P&L of $10M, technology platforms, and associated managed support and operations services.• Crafted and executed a visionary IT strategy that supported rapid organizational growth and technology adoption, aligning with the company’s expansion from 1 provider to 170+ providers across 70 locations.• Championed over ten digital transformation projects, focused on delivering new innovative solutions to enhance patient engagement and provider efficiency.• Devised rapid onboarding plan for newly acquired providers, enabling the organization to onboard providers within 30–60-days.

Continuum Health assisted provider groups in maximizing fee-for-service revenue, transitioning to value-based care and participate in clinically integrated networks through our managed service offerings.• Managed Technology portfolio and services encompassing 25+ systems deployed to 1,500+ providers and 7,000+ end-users.• Oversaw departmental P&L of $20M and 30+ IT professionals across Support Desk, Clinical Applications, Financial Applications, Value Based Care Applications, and Analytics Technology departments.• Created and presided over new corporate and client governance committees, focusing on change management, data governance, and operational workflow efficiencies.• Administered 50+ IT vendor contracts, ensuring compliance with service level agreements and optimal system performance to support business operations and strategic growth objectives.• Led innovative technology initiatives, including user needs assessments, RFI/RFP, vendor search and selection, negotiations, and contracting efforts.• Established organizational IT support structure, including KPIs, staffing metrics, policies, procedures, and workflows aligned with client service level agreements.

• Managed a team of 20+ IT professionals across three departments: Clinical Applications, Financial Applications, and Analytics.• Led the build-out of new Clinical Applications department, effectively growing IT organization by 50% to support clinical application portfolio.• Developed new Clinical Applications team support structure, staffing, policies, and procedures.• Headed the implementation and big-bang rollout of a new Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system to 700+ providers.• Guided staff and end-users through the implementation and adoption of key clinical applications, including Health Information Exchange (HIE), Patient Portal, and Secure Messaging applications.• Served as an executive project sponsor for multiple upgrades and projects within the applications portfolio.

• Managed team of 10+ IT professionals across two departments: Financial Applications and Analytics.• Played a pivotal role in the search & selection of a new enterprise wide EMR system, leading the client needs assessment and RFP creation project phases.• Spearheaded the implementation and rollout of an enterprise data warehouse, report engine, and dashboards to MSO executive team and leadership.• Developed and rolled out client-facing dashboards with key performance indicators, scorecards, and performance metrics.• Collaborated with Continuum’s Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) department to increase end-user efficiency and enhance billing and collections workflows, resulting in a 20% daily increase in task efficiency.

• Built new IT Applications department from the ground floor, hiring new team of 5+ IT professionals.• Established new Application Support departmental processes, policies, and procedures aligned with organizations new applications and service level commitments with clients.• Led implementation of Practice Management and RCM applications, managing the rollout and support for 1000+ end-users.• Coordinated more than 5 successful application version upgrades, all completed with no impact to 1,000+ users and business operations.

Weymouth, Ma, Us

Beacon Partners, Inc was a healthcare consulting firm that offered strategic management and clinical and information technology consulting services to healthcare providers. In April 2015, Beacon Partners was acquired by KPMG .Engagement – AmeriPath / Quest Diagnostics• Provided RCM and EDI claim logic expertise to multi-state Laboratory and Pathology client, maintaining 20+ payer and state specific electronic data feeds.

Computer Task Group, Inc. (CTG) is a leading global IT solutions, staffing, and services organization to providers, payers, and life sciences clients.Engagement - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA • Delivered 24/7 critical technology support to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) by maintaining applications, responding promptly to IT support requests, managing all system downtime issues, and spearheading the project management for the launch of three new nursing units and departments within the hospital system.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Thomas Jefferson Health is a large academic medical center with a network of hospitals and physician practices throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey.• Provided customer support to all Thomas Jefferson Health System medical practices and users through daily maintenance, support, and customizations in the GE IDX Flowcast and integrated applications.