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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

SVP-CIO until 5/21, SVP-CDIO from 5/21 to 9/24Interim CDAO from 7/22Interim CTO from 9/22Interim CISO - 6/18 - 3/19$3.35B healthcare system2022 CHIME Transformational Leader of the YearNamed by the ORBIE Awards as Seattle Healthcare CIO of the Year 2022System wide workforce executive for equity, diversity and inclusionNamed to Becker's Hospital Review 100 Hospital and Health System CIOs to Know (2021)Named to Newsweek's World's Best Smart Hospitals List (2021)Finalist Seattle CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards (2020, 2021)Named to Becker's Hospital Review 100 Hospital and Health System CIOs to Know (2020)Named to Constellation's Business Transformation 150 (BT150) for 2020Named to Becker's Hospital Review Hospital and Health System CIOs to Know (2019)Named to Becker's Hospital Review 105 Hospital and Health System CIOs to Know (2018)U.S. News & World Report (2019) ranked Seattle Children’s among the nation’s best children’s hospitals – for the 25th year in a row.Employees: 9,490; medical staff: 1,918; physicians in training: 1,034; medical students in training: 333.Annual patient visits: 391,653.Licensed beds – total: 364.National ranking among pediatric research institutions in NIH funding: 5.Leads a team of 481 FTEs.Balanced budget of $158m OPEX and $50m CAPEX.Achieved HIMSS Stage 7 for Analytics.Achieved HIMSS Stage 7 for EMR.Improved Net Promotor Score from -24 to +49 in 36 months.Completed Cerner to Epic EHR migration and data archive in 24 months during COVID.

Cambridge, Gb

Healthcare's Most Wired, U.S. (2017).CHKS Award for data quality related to clinical coding & financial reimbursement (2017).U.K. Top 100 CIO List (2017).Finalist - Computing Digital Tech Leaders Awards: Best place to work in digital – large organisations (2017).Finalist - U.K. EHI Award's Digital NHS Trust Of The Year (2016).Finalist - U.K. EHI Award's Best Use Of IT To Support Integrated Healthcare Services (2016).$1.2 Billion Academic Medical & Research Center with 2 hospitals (1,200 beds total) supporting 13,000 users.5,800 births, 103,000 ED visits, 90,000 inpatients, 125,000 day cases, 750,000 outpatient visits, 40,000 operations, 35 operating rooms.Actively leading IT, Information, Business IT, Clinical Coding, Clinical Information Systems (EPR), Data Quality, Data Protection, Information Governance, R&D and Information Security depts.Managed $60 million IT budget and 185 FTEs (in-house) & 90 FTEs (from out-source).Delivered a $200m Commodity IT re-tender.Responsible for organization wide Epic EPR program.Epic modules: ASAP (ED), Beacon (Oncology), Beaker (Lab), PAS Cadence (Outpatient Scheduling), Cogito (Reporting), Cupid (Cardiology), EpicCare Ambulatory, EpicCare Inpatient (ICU, Orders, and Clinical Documentation), PAS ADT (Inpatient), Haiku and Canto, HIM, Kaleidoscope (Ophthalmology), MyChart, OpTime (Perioperative Charting), Anesthesia, Phoenix (Transplant), Prelude (Registration), Radiant (Radiology), Rover, Stork (Obstetrics), Welcome (Kiosks), Willow Ambulatory (Pharmacy), Willow Inpatient (Pharmacy), Willow Inventory (Pharmacy), Care Everywhere, EpicCare Link.Responsible for $300 million eHospital program.Achieved HIMSS Stage 6.

Stamford, Ct, Us

Worked with executive level clients/governments in the UK, Ireland, Iceland, Austria, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Belgium, UAE, Qatar, Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and the USA.Provided strategic advice/consultancy to CIOs, CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CMIOs and CMOs of healthcare delivery organisations and technology vendors in areas of ICT strategy, business transformation, clinical and patient engagement (including portals), technology infrastructure, telemedicine, data architecture, business intelligence, implementation of healthcare information systems (HCIS), electronic patient record (EHR including: MEDITECH, Cerner, Epic, System C, GE, McKesson, Siemens, InterSystems, Allscripts, Orion), CPOE, ISO standards, enterprise content management systems, HIE, ePrescribing, HIPAA and NHSLA compliance.Engaged on multi-million dollar projects/contract reviews in the areas of EHR, business intelligence, ePrescribing and technology infrastructure.Worked on multiple multi-million dollar EHR projects for Epic and Cerner implementations.

Liverpool, England, Gb

$500 million Academic Medical Centres with 2 hospitals (650 beds total) and 28 satellite clinics supporting 5,000 users.Responsible for IT, Information, Business IT, Clinical Coding, Information Systems, Health Information Management, Data Quality, Data Protection, Information Governance, Information Security and Patient Services departments for both hospitals.Responsible for $14 million budget, 95 FTEs and $24 million EPR programme.Delivered ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 27001 (Data Security), ISO 14001 (Environmental) and BS 25999 (Business Continuity).Delivered $24 million in award winning capital projects to time and budget including enterprise infrastructure (LAN, Wi-Fi, Cloud), BYOD, digital dictation, CPOE, ePrescribing, outsourced transcription, and analytics to understand patient outcomes and quality, patient surveys and electronic check-in.Delivered 7% in IT costs savings year on year.Responsible for $24 million MEDITECH contract.IT strategist for new $500 million Children’s hospital development (Europe’s largest).Organisation’s Chief Information Security Officer.Delivered SLAs with 99.9% uptime and break/fix response that consistently met targets of 99%.Cross boundary working between PCTs, SHA and local HIS services.Implemented a dual replicated VBlock server/storage infrastructure in the UK's first healthcare private Cloud.

$170 million Academic Medical Centre with 325 beds and 1,600 users.Responsible for IT, Information, Business IT, Clinical Coding, Information Systems, Health Information Management, Data Quality, Data Protection, Information Governance, Information Security and Patient Services departments.Responsible for for 4 managers, 65 FTEs, an annual balanced budget of $6 million and $10 million EPR programme.Delivered ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 27001 (Data Security), ISO 14001 (Environmental) and BS 25999 (Business Continuity).Delivered $10 million in award winning capital projects to time and budget including enterprise infrastructure (LAN, Wi-Fi), digital dictation, CPOE, ePrescribing, outsourced transcription, analytics, patient surveys and electronic check-in.Delivered 7% in IT costs savings year on year.Responsible for $10 million MEDITECH contract.Delivered ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 27001 (Data Security), ISO 14001 (Environmental) and BS25999 (Business Continuity).Organisation’s Chief Information Security Officer.Reduced IT infrastructure management costs by 50%, power consumption by 75% and technical support time for 1,500 users from 7 days to 12 hours.Cross boundary working between PCTs, SHA and local HIS services.Implemented an award winning virtualized enterprise hospital IT infrastructure and server farm on a Dell / EMC platform with full disaster recovery as well as eliminating data duplication.Responsible for systems implementation, development, deployment, upgrades and operations of MEDITECH for entire hospital and 5 community based health centers, Women’s Centre at University Hospital Aintree and Clinical Genetics at Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital.Implemented a $2 million 4th generation Wi-Fi and Single Sign On across the hospital.Implemented a $2 million RIS / GE PACS system.

Privately held Healthcare Consulting and Informatics Company.Specializing in IT strategic and business planning, EPR (Cerner, MEDITECH) systems implementations, operations improvement, evidence-based medicine, health informatics, IS / IT systems implementation, managed care, point-of-care software solutions and telemedicine.Successfully created and deployed enterprise infrastructure utilizing LAN/WAN globally, VPN solution, DHCP, SSL, Citrix, wireless solutions, Cisco IP telephony, and Microsoft globally. Managed an annual budget of $2 million and an international staff of 15.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Privately Held Medical Software and Internet Company (www.pepid.com)Developed point-of-care diagnostic medical software applications and health informatics products for use on the Palm OS, Pocket PC, Windows CE and PCs piloted by Harvard, Northwestern and McGill Universities and the US military.Managed a team of 6 developers.Chief Editor for the PEPID handheld medical software.Developed medical software and health informatics products for use on the Palm OS, Pocket PC, Windows CE and PCs.Developed US Military Apps for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

Provided health informatics training and solutions to US nursing homes.Project managed development of 650 websites; designed HIPAA compliant practice management software for doctors and built on-line real-time nursing home booking engine.Developed a patient portal disease / disorder search engine on the Internet that allowed users to look up a specific disease and then find the correct specialist for that disease.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Designed the certified Health Unit Coordinator/Medical Office Technology programs for a new $5 million technical institute.Taught classes in Anatomy, Physiology, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Psychiatry, Medical Terminology, Medical Coding and Billing (ICD-9), and Medisoft practice management software.Trained physicians, nurses and technicians for the Chicago Board of Health.Obtained an articulation agreement with East West University for credit transfer.Designed the Medical Office Technology program and obtained federal financial aid approval.Taught classes in Anatomy, Physiology, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Psychiatry, Medical Terminology, Medical Coding and Billing, and Microsoft Office 2000.Trained physicians, nurses and technicians for the Chicago Board of Health in health screening program implementation techniques.Implemented health screening programs to increase the Hispanic community awareness in stroke, diabetes, cervical cancer, contraception and sexually transmitted diseases.Gained eligibility for students to obtain the certification as a Health Unit Coordinator to manage health units in Obstetrics, Gynecology, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine.Obtained an articulation agreement with East West University allowing transfer of all credits towards a four-year Bachelor’s degree.

Mba, Business

Msc, Information Systems Management

Msc, Healthcare Policy & Management

Md, Medicine