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Kennesaw, Ga, Us

Greater Atlanta Area

Contribute to optimization of patient care outcomes and healthcare services financial performance through appropriate use of healthcare information technologies integrated to support continuity of patient care across ambulatory and acute care venues. Provide technical consulting services for healthcare services provider organizations and healthcare IT product vendors for products and systems spanning spectrum from departmental to enterprise level healthcare IT systems.Areas of consulting services include:• Business needs assessment and system requirements definition;• Regulatory compliance assessment and planning;• System development, implementation, and operations; and• Market development and solution selling.Past engagements Include:• Provided business and technical discovery and formal recommendations to support and facilitate patient centered electronic health information sharing among consortium of three separate and distinct care providers in rural Georgia setting.• Collaborated with other consultants to provide expert advice and recommendations for vendor of hospital entertainment and communications equipment considering to expand product offerings to include clinical, patient-level content and services.• Provided expert advice for existing business considering to develop custom EHR system for existing US, nationwide healthcare services business.• Led Analysis of Alternatives project for CDC’s Message Validation, Processing, and Provisioning System (MVPS) which receives formal, structured, disease and case notification messages from public health jurisdictions throughout US. MVPS provides data for many, varied CDC scientific study projects and for CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Project deliverables included formal reports and presentations identifying three alternative IT solutions, recommendation for preferred alternative solution, and high-level plans for developing and implementing recommended alternative solution.

Reston, Va

Oversee product development, porting, and adoption of company’s legacy EHR product to new database and application platforms. Protect and advance customer’s clinical process and information management intellectual property instantiated in company’s legacy EHR product. Facilitate sales and contract development for customers spanning US, Canada, UK, and Saudi Arabia. Achieve and maintain compliance with evolving EHR-related regulations. Develop Enterprise Product Architecture to establish product models and technologies that can be shared across product lines to reduce company and customer costs. • Grew revenue stream 12% in Canada alone and recurring annual maintenance and support by $3+ million by leading evolution to new generation EHR applications and system services.• Led formal technical certification of company’s EHR product, which has enabled company’s customers to receive $70+million in federal ARRA funds for achieving Stage 1 Meaningful Use with company’s EHR product.• Contributed to acquisition of 14 new accounts for company’s EHR, valued at $56+ million.• Participated as regular member of EHRA Privacy and Security Workgroup. • Developed reference enterprise system architecture for integration of 4 product lines. • Guided initial transition of customer’s IT operations from 7 data centers to 2 data centers and addition of disaster recovery services. Transitioned 9,000+ users.

Raleigh, Nc

• Developed opportunity and closed $14 million contract with multi-hospital system.• Established Solutions Consulting collateral for customer pain point discovery.• Created marketing and presentation material for use in selling Misys Connect, new community-based patient clinical information sharing product. Targeted hospital-owned and independent physician practice groups.

Raleigh, Nc

• Directed operations of CPR Development Group, including staff of 50. Collaborated with executives and product management to conceive and develop product strategies. Drafted and negotiated contracts for major accounts. Triaged problems rooted in major data conversion project and established processes to address future issues. • Directed transition of Per-Se Patient1 EHR development group to Misys development organization.• Conceived new product for exchange of patient healthcare information among community-wide care providers using heterogeneous EHR systems. • Provided critical, on-site, post go-live support for first Misys CPR installation in UK.

Atlanta, Ga

Developed and supported applications for 4 healthcare oriented product lines, including enterprise EHR, surgery scheduling and documentation, staff scheduling, and patient accounting. Collaborated with product management to identify and support product strategies for new product and service offerings. Oversaw staff of 100 and all aspects of product development. Controlled R&D budget of $15 million.• Facilitated dismissal of multi-million dollar patent infringement suit filed by patent troll company, resulting in protection of corporate revenue. • Developed and supported applications for 4 healthcare oriented product lines, including enterprise EHR, surgery scheduling and documentation, staff scheduling, and patient accounting. Collaborated with product management to identify and support product strategies for new product and service offerings. Oversaw staff of 100 and all aspects of product development. Controlled R&D budget of $15 million.• Facilitated dismissal of multi-million dollar patent infringement suit filed by patent troll company, resulting in protection of corporate revenue. • Administered Department of Commerce/NIST grant to support new methods of collaboration among physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Created information technology in support of the collaboration model.• Contributed to due diligence supporting sale of Patient1 product line to Misys Healthcare Systems.• Delivered new GA versions of Patient1 (nee Ulticare) and other company products every 12 to 16 months, expanding library of GUI based applications.

Master Of Science (Ms), Biomathematics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Physics And Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Editor of university's annual student face book; Men's Chorus; Woodwind Ensemble; Sophomore class president.