Evan Richards Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ca

As a Scotians Global Advisor, I’m part of a community of influencers and industry expertsaround the world with a passion for Nova Scotia, Canada. Through business advice and marketentry guidance, I help Nova Scotia’s exporting businesses reach their full potential.Ask me about doing business in Nova Scotia or learn more at novascotiabusiness.com.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Deliver revenue cycle strategy advising to large integrated delivery networks including academic medical centers, regional health systems and for-profit healthcare organizations.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Product leadership role expanded to include post acute revenue cycle, Value Based Care and VA Community Care solutions.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Product leadership focused specifically on ambulatory revenue cycle solutions.

Develop and deliver comprehensive software and service offerings for the large healthcare enterprise focusing on the emerging needs in the world of Managed/Value Based Care. High focus on customer outcomes.Key Results- Developed and led a comprehensive go to market effort for a Managed/Value Based Care solution enabling medium to large healthcare enterprises to engage in new business models such as bundled payments, population wellness incentives and full risk capitation. Resulted in market expansion and customer success through additional revenue sources from value base arrangements.- Delivered thought leadership in Value Based Care and Enterprise Revenue Cycle Management. Leveraging deep domain and IT expertise, presented at Becker's Healthcare CFO executive forum; engaged with customer/prospect CXO level on potential expansion into value-based care; facilitated multiple customer engagement forums. Resulted in high personal credibility with customer and GE executives alike.- Directed Enterprise Revenue Cycle portfolio business development with third party solutions for enhancement of customer success through improved revenue cycle performance. Resulted in customer retention/expansion through the addition of innovative revenue cycle management tools.- Owned P/L responsibility for segments of the portfolio covering organic and inorganic investments, buy/build/partner decisions and evaluating overall business viability of proposed and legacy solutions. Resulted in delivery of timely and market favored software releases through dynamic capital allocation.- Managed a diverse and global group of direct and matrixed professionals covering product ownership, product design and engineering. Transformed strategic planning for software releases resulting in more frequent and market favored features.Reported to the General Manager and Vice President of Enterprise Financial Management with a team of 30 and annual revenue of $350M.

Served as the executive liaison for several key customer accounts including oversight of all account management and implementation activity for all Siemens Health Services US solutions.Key Results:- Delivered executive advisory services for IT strategic planning in support of customer initiatives such as consolidation and expansion of new clinical services. Resulted in customer reduced costs to manage ambulatory revenue cycle while collecting more and reduced IT cost to manage multiple EHR platforms through standardization onto the Soarian platforms.- Directed cross functional teams including account managers, project managers and consultants on the delivery of Meaningful Use software and change management programs, IT consolidation projects and day to day optimization of live solutions. Resulted in multiple customers achieving Meaningful Use Certification for Stage 2 requirements and increased trust and partnership between customer and Siemens.- Led collaboration efforts between Siemens product teams and key customers in the development and testing of new and emerging solutions. Resulted in customers adopting the new ambulatory revenue cycle solution and contributing significantly to the design of the ambulatory EMR and Emergency Room clinical workflows.Reported to the Senior Vice President, National Zone Services with a team of 20 and an annual budget of $20M.

Designed and delivered workflows, reporting and services required to support ambulatory revenue cycle management in a native cloud developed enterprise revenue cycle management platform. Advocated for physician organization customers in design and deployment considerations in a traditionally hospital-focused vendor environment. Enabled solution deployment growth of 1500% in 3 years.Key Results:- Collaborated with physician sponsors, product managers and engineering leaders on the unique needs of physician revenue cycle management within a larger enterprise healthcare environment. Prescribed and designed the ambulatory roadmap components for the enterprise platform for use in customer and prospect marketing, capital allocation discussions and executive reporting. Resulted in the successful solution deployment to 3000 physicians in 3 years.- Delivered internal and external thought leadership on the challenges of physician revenue management in all venues of care. Positioned the concept of consolidated business office processing as viable but requiring enabling technology and cultural change to bridge ambulatory and hospital cultures. Resulted in multiple customers aligning internal operations prior to adoption of the common technology platform and multiple customers realizing improved financial performance 3 months post install.- Provided strategic customer consulting on existing revenue cycle processes, organization structures and collection challenges. Resulted in the significant organizational change and process improvement program for the pilot customer; Resulted in overall customer team morale improvement as a result of improved workflows and cash collections.Reported to the Senior Director Product Management on a team of 12 with an annual budget of (excluding capex) of $20M.

Key Results:- Led project management and technical implementation activities for the HealthShare deployment to HIXNY (Healthcare Information Exchange of New York). Resulted in a 20 HIE members go-live for full clinical data exchange in compliance with New York State HIE regulations- Delivered advisory services to member organizations on data selection strategies for inclusion in the HIXY exchange. Resulted in reduced re-work for certain data exchange type such as prescriptions and problems.Reported to the manager of HealthShare implementations with a team of 4 and annual budget of $1.5M.

Key Results:- Managed a portfolio for faculty practice foundation projects including Lawson GL/AP deployment and the selection of GE Centricity Business as the core revenue cycle solution for all ambulatory clinics and physician services. Co-Directed the 'Patient First' patient experience transformation program. Resulted in improved financial performance for the foundation and improved patient experience.- Established the Information Management function directing a team of 30 administrative and IT professionals. Serviced the networking, end user computing and cardiology EMR needs of the clinicians. Developed and deployed the department wide web presence in compliance with Medical Center and University marketing guidelines. Served as interim Professional Billing Director through the outsourcing process. Resulted in increased revenue cycle performance and improved end user satisfaction.- Improved collaboration between local Information Management and Medical Center IT resulting in accelerated delivery if critical feature/function to the cardiology team.Reported to the Chair - Department of Medicine with a team of 500 clinicians, administrators and allied staff with an annual budget of $450M.

- IT and Administrative Management Roles * Manager, Managed Care Systems and IDX Programming - Sharp Healthcare * Corporate Manager, Finance PMO - Partners Healthcare * Acting IT Director - Brigham and Women's Physician Organization and Healthcare Partners CA * Sunrise Clinicals Project Manager - Hoag Hospital- Implementation and Consulting Roles/Projects * Senior Application Consultant - IDX Systems * IDX Managed Care, Billing/Scheduling Implementation - Rush Prudential Health Plans and University of Chicago *IDX Analyzer Implementations - Johns Hopkins Medicine and InPhyNet

Mscis, Computer Information Systems

B. Comm, Management

Education record