Jerry Dinger Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Senior IT Analyst certified in Epic Inpatient Clinical Documentation at the Hospital for Special Surgery which went live in January 2016. I specialized in Inpatient Ancillary Services, including the build for Rehab Therapy, Food and Nutrition, Case Management, Respiratory Services, and Pastoral Care Services along with managing the application go live. I also created and will maintain the Cogito Work Bench Reports for Inpatient end-users. Currently, we have just upgraded to Epic 2017. In the Past, worked on Meaningful Use and Clinical Documentation using AllScripts Sunrise Clinical Manager 6.1. Working on a team and attested to Stage 1 Meaningful Use. Responsible current workflow analysis, design, build, test, training and implementing Nursing clinical documentation for a nationally known orthopedic and rheumatology hospital in Manhattan. Built 7 Nursing Initial Patient Assessments, Patient Education Flow Sheet, Discharge Instructions, Warfarin Discharge Instructions, Pastoral Care Note and ExitCare.Responsible for on call support, representing IT Department in several hospital committees and troubleshooting clinical problems.In addition have been involved to two major SCM upgrades.

•Responsible for updating and maintaining the eMAR corporate standards for 48 hospitals across the USA. All 48 hospitals will be going up on Cerner Millennium full order entry and clinical documentation within a three year time line.•Involved in the assessment and documentation of each facility’s current state. Providing feedback to Corporate and each sites executives•Development of future state workflows using Visio. •Involved in performing a pr-conversion assessment, ensuring each site will ready for go live and reporting back findings to each site’s executives along with the corporate office.•Will be providing go live support for Cerner Millennium in regards to eMAR and Barcode Scanning. •Other duties include participating in design sessions amongst the orders, order sets, clinical documentation, laboratory and pharmacy teams; adhering to identified target dates, coordinating, facilitating and participating in various meeting such as the Nursing Advisory and Medical Records Team.

Homecare Visit Office Team Lead at Bayada Nurses in Moorestown, NJ for a clinical system implementation using CareVoyant Software. • Utilized Prolink Methodology to collect data for current and future states. Performed a gap analysis of existing Visit processes. • Led efforts of the Visit Office Team, adhering to target dates, coordinating, facilitating and participating in review and design team sessions, preparation and distribution of status reports, and collection, interpretation and workflow analysis to assist with process redesign. SCM Clinical Documentation Architect for a Clinical Transformation Enterprise Build for 12 facilities at Baylor Healthcare in Dallas, TX. • Prepared /conducted Clinical Documentation Design Sessions for a cross-section of end-users for new electronic flow sheets and structured notes along with customization of preconfigured Eclipsys CPMRC Knowledge Based Charting.• Created specifications for build by IS Department.• Tested build for both SCM 4.5 and 5.0.• Created Clinical Documentation and Eclipsys ED Manager Functional Test Scripts for Eclipsys SCM 4.5 and ED Manager 5.0. • Provided end-user support (Meds, Nursing, and Ancillary Orders and Clinical Documentation Support).• Created design decisions around Med Reconciliation. • Prepared and conducted design decisions around the Med Administration Record (eMAR) and tested the build. Support Analyst at Sutter Health, Sacramento, CA, supporting SCM 3.04 M02 for three environments running eight facilities.• Performed item catalog maintenance for orders and results. • Maintained user names and passwords for care providers and end users.• Defined workstations, printers, locations, and dictionaries.• Provided 24 x 7 on call support • Triaged tickets and reassigned as necessary to ensure timely and appropriate resolution. Issues included system response time, printing delays.• Monitored, reported and resent SCM errors for three environments.

As Senior Business Analyst, Clinical IT at New York Presbyterian Hospitalo Provided SCM 3.5 end-user support during initial activation.o Provided clinical and technical support for physicians, nurses and ancillary services utilizing Eclipsys SCC at two large academic, tertiary centers and one specialty hospital.o Planned and implemented SCC Computerized Orders and Clinical Documentation on new units and throughout facilities. These included a new Children’s Hospital, a Psychiatric Hospital, a large Emergency Room and other inpatient units.o Performed nursing work flow analysis around the patient care process for each activation.o Designed and created new Nursing and Physician Documentation templates along with physician order sets, clinical pathways, and requisitions. Created simplified specifications for programmers to complete the work and tested changes prior to release into the live environment.o Performed requisition testing along with go-live support during the activation.o Modified the present SCC application, reflecting new hospital policy changes. This included changes to nursing, pharmacy and lab orders and documentation.o Attended and provided SCC knowledge to several hospital committees, which facilitate executive decision making. These included Quality Improvement, Medication Safety Committee, Peds ICU and Emergency Room Steering Committees, and The Better Diabetes Care Committee.o Provided 24/7 on-call support for the clinical application

As System Analyst Programmer:o Planned, created, revised, programmed and tested clinical pathways and physician order sets for the TDS 7000 version of Eclipsys. This included 120 physician order sets and clinical pathways. o Helped test all upgrades of TDS 7000o Provided 24/7 on-call support for the clinical applicationo Attended and provided Clinical IT knowledge for the Hospital Medical Device Committee.o Helped test of the proposed implementation of SCM 3.04 application

As Clinical Level 4 RN:o Provided direct nursing care to very critical medical and surgical infants in a Level 4, regional referral center o Performed performance evaluations of staff members.o Cross-trained and precepted transitional nurses to more acute patients, along with orienting new hires.o Planned and implemented new patient care delivery systems for the new 60 bed unit. This included clinical supplies and PC’s.o Served as NICU representative for the nursing documentation and medical device committees.

As Home Care Nurse:o Provided direct nursing care to a ventilator dependent child in a home settingo Acted as a liaison between the patient family and family physician.

Neonatal Nurse working for the Saudi MilitaryAs Senior Staff Nurse:o Provided direct nursing care to very critical medical and surgical infants in a tertiary, regional referral center serving Saudi military dependents in Saudi Arabia.o Attended High Risk Deliveries.o Assumed occasional charge responsibilities working with a multi-national staff. o Created nursing policies that were used throughout the three Whitakar Corporation’s sites in the Kingdom.

Staff Nurse in a level 4 tertiary center providing direct care to critical medical and surgical neonates. Provided transport back to home hospitals occasionally.

Hospital Corpsman in Pediatrics and Adult Cardiopulmonary at the Naval Hospital of Philadelphia. Also on the Claude V. Ricketts DDG from 1972-1973.

Mba, Healthcare Administration

Bs, Hotel/Restaurant Management

Activities and Societies: ETA-SIGMA-DELTA (Hospitality Honor Society). Dean's List every semester Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Associates Degree, Nursing

Diploma, Nursing