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 Coding & Abstracting Charge Router Professional Billing Hospital Billing Home Health Billing Hospital and Professional Claim Hospice Care Epic Interfaced Systems (Radiation Oncology, MUSE, CardioVascular Information Systems, ABG, Cerner, CoPath) Tapestry External Referrals

Management of Higher-IT's healthcare informatics practice. Manage consulting engagements up to $2 million. Develop and manage relationships with State and Local procurement programs. Assists in recruitment drawing upon relationships and experience to recommend qualified candidates, interviewing consulting staff candidates and preparing staffing.

Los Angeles, California, US

Consulting services to the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Legacy System Replacement Project. Advise project team members in the research, vendor analysis, RFP/Solicitation, vendor selection, contracting and implementation project phases.

 GAP analysis of a respiratory hospital’s information systems state of compliance (regulatory) with Joint Commission standards for information management Development and implementation of the organization’s disaster recovery, business continuity and contingency plans for information systems Integration of information systems disaster, continuity and.

 Manage engagement execution, including all financial, technical, professional, personnel and quality aspects of medium to large-scale consulting engagements from $.25 million to $4.5 million and project teams of 3 to 15 technical professionals Establish and monitor procedures to control and regulate projects, activities, scope, logistics, project.

Arlington, Texas, US

 Project Management of the Texas Health Resources (THR) implementation of Epic Systems (Inpatient, ED, Orders, ADT, Bridges) at Presbyterian Hospital of Plano. Developed THR's 13 hospital roll out plan for all Texas Health Resource hospitals and clinics.

 Discovery and documentation of the organization's Epic Implementation project. GAP analysis of discovery findings against CTGHS standards and industry best practices in Project Management and Service Delivery. Developed recommendations document and presented findings to Froedtert management.

Team Lead for the Epic Inpatient implementation for Kaiser Southern California with oversight and focus on incorporating lessons learned from each site's implementation process.

Dallas, TX, US

 Established and implemented change request processes  Developed roll-out/deployment schedules  Provided leadership and support to the local, regional and national teams  Facilitated deployment activities to ensure site preparedness for implementation and provide clinicians and staff with implementation support resources as needed  Resolved project.

US

 Provided HIPAA baseline assessment and gap analysis for WellPoint nationwide  Managed gap analysis findings, recommendations, compliance documentation and project plans  Provided hybrid entity analysis, preemption analysis with relevant State regulations, and propose approach using industry "best practices"  Implementation project management services.

 Enlistment in the United States Naval Reserve through the Advanced Pay Grade program. Awarded the Junior Sailor of the Quarter 1998 Advancement to AZ2 at HCS-5

Oakland, California, US

 Provided Project Management services supporting the Revenue Cycle Remediation Project. Impacted IT systems include Claims, Membership, NDC Premis/ePremis, IDX, Epic Resolute and middle ware software packages  Led project teams in identifying requirements related to local and regional business processes and systems and associated interfaces Developed.

San Francisco, CA, US

 Identified clinical requirements for Laboratory Information Systems (Sunquest/Misys)  Acquired and managed resources, established timelines for project team resources, monitored progress against project plan, and directed team resources in completing project tasks, managed the project testing phase  Ensured full project documentation ensuring.

Round Rock, Texas, US

 Identified clinical requirements for Laboratory Information Systems (Sunquest/Misys)  Acquired and managed resources, established timelines for project team resources, monitored progress against project plan, and directed team resources in completing project tasks, managed the project testing phase  Ensured full project documentation ensuring.

Oakland, California, US

 Project Manager/Contract Consultant, HMO CIS Interface Development / HIPAA Compliance Implementation of Kaiser’s Electronic Medical Record for two regional hospitals Project matrix consisting of approximately 50 resources, development of 11 (Appointments, Pharmacy, EKG, Patient MASTERS, Order Entry, Laboratory Results Management, Common Provider.

San Francisco, CA, US

 Sites: Long Beach Community Medical Center/Saint Mary’s Medical Center Accountable for the Y2K remediation for 820 servers, project matrix consisting of 15 contract resources and seven direct reports, and Business process redesign and campus operations consolidation Retirement of 187 devices and deployment of 800 desktop devices  Y2K Remediation of.

Oakland, California, US

 Financial Applications Systems Development Accountable for the successful remediation of 198 critical applications  Developed and maintained application database, management reports and develop and maintain comprehensive regional project plan  Managed contract programmer resources and Y2K remediation vendor resources, Y2K Application testing and.

Product development and management of the enterprise managed care information system for Unihealth's medical groups & hospitals, VertiHealth Administrative Services (TPA) and CareAmerica health plan. Successfully planned and coordinated Unihealth Information Services and CareAmerica's first annual employee Thanksgiving food drive benefiting the Los Angeles.

Orange, California, US

 Responsible for the maintenance of GTE QCARE system.  Audit system deficiencies (Provider Master File, Claims and Pre Authorizations Processing, Membership and Eligibility), RFI in acquisition of Data Warehouse vendor (Red Brick). EDI (DHS to CalOPTIMA – Eligibility, Provider Master, Encounters, Claims)  Development of MS Access database for required.

 Installed, trained and managed in house practice management software for small physician offices: QBX (Clipper Based System), MediCare, MediCal, HMO, and Private Insurance Electronic Billing Created and implemented software development projects  Implementation & management of a clinical laboratory medical claims reimbursement system and LIS interfaces.

Pmp, Project Management Professional

Pm Certificate, Project Management