Heath Bell, Mba, Cdh-E, Chcio, Fchime Email & Phone Number

Evanston, Il, Us

Responsible for establishing and executing multiple IT strategies for the organization including digital health, patient portals, web development, mobile solutions, data warehousing, revenue cycle, system integration, and ERP solutions. Established project management processes and oversee IT administrative services division. Core Systems: Epic, Workday, Infor / Lawson, Oracle / PeopleSoft

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for Information Services in the health system’s west region which operates four acute care hospitals, three physician groups and one rehabilitation hospital. Corporate responsibilities for identity and access management and post-acute care services (hospice and home health). Key accomplishments include: Lead information technology integration activities for newly acquired entities to the Northwestern corporate structures. This included leading the replacement of core systems such as the electronic medical record and enterprise resource planning solutions. Led the Epic conversion activities for two acute care hospitals and a multi specialty physicians ambulatory clinic using big bang approach. Led and PeopleSoft conversion activities for three hospitals and two physician ambulatory groups. Led the migration of data center applications from a hosted data center to an new data center in less than 6 months. Ensured application rationalization to establish corporate standards. Core Systems: Epic (acute and ambulatory), Cerner, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Soft BloodBank, and McKesson

Dekalb, Il, Us

Executive oversight for Information Technology strategy for integrated delivery health system consisting of two acute care facilities, 16 outpatient clinics, 4 cancer centers, Hospice, Home Health, Palliative Care, Behavioral Health, Surgery Center and a Rural Health Clinic Additional oversight responsibilities for Telecommunications, Patient Access, Patient Scheduling, Revenue Cycle, Patient Accounts and Health Information Management activities for the health system.Integrated 15 distinct physician practices, including a $25 million multi-specialty physician group, into the corporate operations of Information Technology, patient access and patient accounts.Project manager for moving all hospital operations to a replacement facility.Core Systems: Meditech, LSS, NextGen, GE Centricity, E-Clinical Works, VarianAncillary Systems: Homecare Homebase, PICIS, Philips OB Tracevue, Nuance e-Scription, PowerScribe, AGFA, Medicity, Truven, and Getwell Network.

Des Moines, Ia, Us

Executive oversight and strategic planning for Information Technology for a county safety net teaching hospital. The organization was a teaching hospital with family practice residency program (affiliated with University of Iowa School of Medicine), physician group practices, mental health inpatient and outpatient services and partnership with Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Had additional operational responsibilities for Patient Access, Patient Scheduling, Financial Counseling, and Patient Accounts.Coordinated the approval for an emergency tax levy that helped fund the full replacement of the core Electronic Medical Record system. Established a charity care program that was later cited by the American Hospital Association as a leader in the charity care process. Core HIS systems: Siemens, Cerner, Meditech,Other Applications: SoftMed, Kronos, Pyxis, Dictaphone

Americus, Ga, Us

Recruited back to become the Manager of Technical Operations after being gone for six months. In 1999, was promoted to Director with operational oversight for I.T., Telecommunications, bio-medical engineering and switchboard. Worked with CIO to implement the I.T. strategic plan.Facility was a regional medical center operating a hospital, nursing home, federally designated rural health clinics, Hospice and physician clinics.Implemented first clinical applications including nursing documentation system, laboratory, radiology, pathology and surgical services system. Created help desk service level agreements and customer satisfaction process. Implemented balanced score cards from data repository system.Core HIS: Siemens, Veterans Administration EMR Ancillary Systems: Kronos, SoftMed, CoPath, Dictaphone, Omnicell

Bethesda, Md, Us

Programmer and Database analyst in the Lockheed Aeronautical Wiring Systems engineering group. Worked to migrate legacy mainframe systems to UNIX based client server systems. Programming in FORTRAN, COBOL, UNIX Scripting and SQL.

Americus, Ga, Us

Started in Clinical Laboratory in 1994 as a Laboratory Specialist to ensure accurate charge capture, patient processing and became liaison to I.T. department. Moved to I.T. department in 1995 as programmer analyst with duties including: system application programming, access control, help desk support, network administration, hardware management and server support.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

B.S, Computer Information Systems

Architecture