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Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Led a clinical access transformation engagement with a large not-for-profit integrated healthcare delivery system. Identified gaps in planning for and resourcing a consolidated clinical access center and developed an executive presentation with action plans to address the gaps and mitigate the risks.

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Hired to join a team of consultants in developing a CRM strategy for a large not-for-profit integrated healthcare delivery system on the East Coast that is both a provider and a payor. Guided a formal evaluation of the capabilities of Epic Cheers as part of their CRM program. Working closely with senior executive stakeholders, the Damo team documented the current state of CRM and performed a gap analysis and industry research. Developed an executive presentation of findings including a 3-year enterprise roadmap for their CRM strategy.

Gardnerville, Nv, Us

Engaged to perform business analysis and program management for a new critical access hospital facility expected to open in 2024. Documented business requirements and planned for the IT infrastructure and applications for a "digital hospital of the future".

Sacramento, California, Us

Hired to be a “trusted advisor” to C-suite and senior business leaders in acute, ambulatory, behavioral health and physician organization affiliates of Sutter Health and a business partner with enterprise-wide departments including population health, quality, nursing administration and clinical integration.• Partnered with executives and business leaders to create business cases and proforma financial analyses for innovative technology solutions. Coached leaders on LEAN principles so they could articulate clear problem statement, current state and target state sections in the business case.• Drove collaboration among IS, data management, managed care and population health teams to develop an ACO data management strategy implementing Epic’s Roster Management Engine.• Together with the CNO, led a system-wide application rationalization workgroup to select and recommended a standard nurse call solution for 26 hospitals that integrated with staff location services and wireless devices to improve patient service, patient safety and staff efficiency. Developed a cloud migration strategy to an enterprise platform and calculated the ROI and TCO for the solution.• Directed development of the first Sutter Health instance of smartbed data integration with a nurse call system and the Epic EHR to improve patient safety and staff efficiency. • Partnered with the CDC to pilot immunization 2D barcode scanning to improve patient safety and staff efficiency. Directed development of Power BI dashboards showing scanning adherence rates. Presented the results of the pilot at the 2017 Epic User Group Meeting.

Sacramento, California, Us

Hired to join the Sutter Medical Foundation Executive Leadership Team and drive implementation of the Epic Ambulatory EHR for over 800 medical group physicians and 3,000 support staff.• Partnered with physician leaders to implement an integrated Electronic Medical Record (EMR) for a 500 physician affiliated IPA. • Developed a Health Information Exchange (HIE) strategy to improve care coordination between medical group and IPA physicians and inspired innovation to improve organizational performance.• Wireless dictation devices reduced transcription turnaround time by 70%• Pre-paid fiber circuit saved 25% over 5 years• Implemented a PC image process from Intel and successfully reduced labor costs by 50%• Drove collaboration among IT application and technical teams, PMO, and facilities and business strategy leaders to support physician practice acquisitions. Sponsored a Kaizen event that reduced the turnaround time for providing an IT cost estimate for practice acquisitions from three weeks to one hour.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Hired to transform the IS team to be trusted business partners with the executive team in supporting a 100 physician multi-specialty group practice linked with a healthcare system where 75% of the patients were covered by managed care capitation contracts.• Developed a team of 36 high performing employees that earned the “Dream Team Award” for outstanding service • Transformed a searchable Clinical Document Repository (CDR) into a cost-effective EMR by applying natural language processing and high performance indexing • Implemented a state-of-the art managed care system to ensure health plan delegation and dramatically improved the financial performance of capitated plans • Networked telephone systems across 20 sites into a virtual call center to create a seamless patient experience for appointment scheduling and after-hours advice• Drove the development of a data warehouse combining practice management, managed care and financial data into the single source of truth for balanced scorecard reporting and self-service reporting through Cognos data marts.

Champaign, Il, Us

Hired to develop a professional IS team to support business transformation for a 70 physician multi-specialty medical group that owned and operated a 20,000 member HMO. • Developed and implemented an IT strategy to support dramatic growth to over 120 physicians and 50,000 HMO members.• Leveraged a system selection process to negotiate a significant vendor discount on a practice management system upgrade.• Developed analytic reports for executives to assess managed care performance including auditing for physician upcoding. • Applied knowledge of standard system functionality to avoid costly vendor charges to develop an interface with a chart-tracking application.• Presented innovative ways for using the practice management system, “Beyond the Documentation”. • Utilized financial analysis skills to assist the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in calculating the financial impact of Medicare participation

Worldwide, Oo

Among the first group in the nation trained as experts in computer audit tools and techniques, after earning a perfect score on the assessment test.Audited clients in the financial services, healthcare, mining, real estate and retail industries.

B.S., Business Administration - Accounting And Mis

A.A., Liberal Arts