Chris Smith, Mba Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Jackson, Ms, Us

Provide technical Subject Matter Expertise (SME) for the Medicaid IT enterprise for multiple Medicaid programs, systems, and staff including administrative systems, clinical systems, and provider EHRs. • Design and develop technical roadmaps and technical strategies in coordination with CMS for the Medicaid IT enterprise, ensuring enterprise systems and services comply with standards such as the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA and MITA Modularity) and CMS OBCs (Outcomes Based Certifications). • Develop and document Agency budgets for systems, services, staff; submit to CMS for approval.• Align Medicaid IT systems and services, such as the Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) / Medicaid Enterprise System (MES), the Medicaid Eligibility and Enrollment System (E&E), the Medicaid Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and the Medicaid Master Person Index (MPI) with Agency and CMS requirements and standards.• Develop, publish and oversee procurements (Request for Proposals - RFPs), including: Medicaid Enterprise Data Lake with FHIR APIs and interoperability components Source of Truth Master Patient Index with FHIR APIs across multiple systems/programs Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Integration Layer with data transformation, FHIR APIs • Oversee Medicaid implementation and compliancy with the CMS Final Rule (CMS 9115-F), including FHIR APIs. • Integrate Medicaid clinical systems with provider enterprise EHRs including Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, and others, supporting bi-directional, real-time clinical data exchange.

Jackson, Ms, Us

Managed the DOM Clinical Data Interoperability Program, providing SME and overall technical strategy and leadership, as well as compliance with federal and State programs, standards, and laws (CMS, HITECH, MU / PI, MITA, MITA Modularity, etc.). Oversaw multiple DOM Program projects and staff, including developing project strategies and roadmaps, creation of technical architectures, writing RFPs for procurements, overseeing RFP procurement process, and managing staff. • Medicaid Clinical Data Interoperability Program Strategy – created Agency Clinical Data Program strategy and roadmap to support Medicaid Agency and MITA (architecture, data, interfaces with trading partners, interfaces with MMIS / MES, systems and services).• SMHP and APD – created annual To-Be vision and Roadmaps for State Medicaid HIT Plan (SMHP), provide ongoing updates for CMS to the SMHP and APDs (technical updates, budgets).• Multi-Agency Identity Management Solution (Master Person Index - MPI) – Oversaw and provided SME in the procurement (RFP) and implementation of a multi-Agency Master Person Index (MPI).• Medicaid Clinical Data Interoperability Platform – Oversaw the RFP development, procurement, and implementation of the DOM Clinical Data Enterprise Service Bus (ESB and HealtheWay Gateway). Planned and manage platform integration into complex DOM ecosystem, supporting provider clinical data and EHRs including Epic and Cerner, and associated data. • DOM Medicaid Clinical Data Infrastructure – Created requirements and RFP, procured, and implemented components(Medicaid HIE), including: Clinical Data Repository (CDR) with both claims-based and provider clinical data. Provider EHR interfaces using IHE standards from Epic and Allscripts EHRs to DOM CDR for automated, real-time query and exchange of 60,000 daily C-CDAs.  APIs and data solutions to migrate existing data and interfaces to new ONC and CMS Final Rule requirements, including open APIs, FHIR, and USCDI.

ApeniMED provided clinical networking interoperability solutions, including Health Information Exchange HIE Solutions, that enabled electronic exchange between healthcare stakeholders, including hospitals and clinics, state and federal agencies, and commercial healthcare companies. ApeniMED was acquired by IOD Incorporated.As Senior Director of State Channels, I managed a team that provided healthcare IT technical consulting, interoperability project sales, and technical implementations. My team consulted, sold, and implemented HIT and HIE (clinical data interoperability) projects internationally, including:- State and private Health Information Exchange (HIE) projects;- State Medicaid Agency-specific projects; - Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN / NwHIN / HealtheWay) projects;- Direct Secure Messaging (DSM) projects;- Clinical data exchange (HL7) projects; - Administrative data exchange (EDI) projects. Example of projects and customers includes:- State of Mississippi Medicaid; - State of Nebraska Medicaid; - State of Nevada Medicaid; - State of North Dakota HIE;- State of Mississippi HIE;- State of Minnesota HIE;- Territory of Guam HIE;- Commonwealth of Puerto Rico HIE;- State of Iowa HIE;- Various private health networks and private HIEs, including the Marshfield Clinic.

Westminster, Co, Us

Founder and President of a networking company. Served as President, ran day-to-day operations while growing brand and fundraising for the company. Company was acquired in 2009, with Smith retaining a seat on the Board of Directors.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

As an early stage employee of Ability Networks (f/k/a VisionShare Inc.), I had a leadership role to define and develop the company Administrative Healthcare Data (EDI) Payer product strategy. I developed and oversaw enterprise healthcare EDI (administrative transactions) solutions and projects nationally to payers for transactions such as healthcare claims and eligibility. Achievements included designing and implementing an early-stage Internet pilot for direct CMS Medicare connectivity for administrative transactions, as well as implementing Ability payer administrative transaction solutions at multiple, disparate payers (Medicare, Medicaid, Blues, etc.). Additionally, I led the piloting of other real-time EDI transactions to CMS/Medicare, and worked with multiple Medicaid Agencies, private payers (Blues, etc), vendors and systems. .

Masters Of Business Administration - Mba, Information Technology Focus

Bachelor Of Arts - Healthcare Administration And Management Specialization, Healthcare Administration And Management