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Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas Area

• Healthcare strategist with broad and comprehensive experience in driving the adoption of innovation and technology across provider and revenue cycle solutions. Leader of M&A EHR systems integration, technology.
• Led current and future state workflow process modeling that allowed multiple organizations to realize $1-3 million savings in operating and supply chain costs
• Developed and managed project plans to identify key issues, problems, approaches, performance metrics and resources for EHR integration projects
• Managed and facilitated application design strategy sessions and coordinated system configuration decisions between client stakeholders and vendors
• Fostered business partnerships with a global robotics and cognitive automation firm that enabled clients to optimize clinical and revenue cycle processes
• Led technology advisory and data analytic teams in performing workflow process modeling and assessing report requirements to ensure new technology requirements were appropriately met and deployed throughout the network

United States

• Engaged directly with hospitals and contractors to lead Cerner Millennium and Epic solution implementations, expanding team to meet explosive demand for expertise in the design, customization, deployment, and support.
• Assessed operational and clinical readiness for the deployment of new EHR platforms, implementing the workflows, business processes, operational improvements, and change management practices to ready teams for adoption.
• Mapped current- and future-state process models, identified automation opportunities, and led clinical and administrative teams—physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and department directors—toward goal achievement.
• Assisted healthcare organizations with cross-walking system configuration and functionality when replacing legacy EHR systems; mitigated organizational risks by ensuring limited disruptions to clinical and revenue.
• Provided strategic leadership and counsel to teams during operational transformation projects, sharing industry-leading best practices, performing technology assessments, and aligning clients with operational.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Engaged as a technology consultant and solution strategist for the pharmacy suite of applications, partnering with clients to design, configure, test, and implement Cerner Pharmacy and Oncology. Served as a strategic.
• Developed and supported solution and service delivery strategies, application configuration, systems integration, application testing, code upgrades, process modeling, and workflow analysis for Cerner pharmacy client.
• Communicated and collaborated with clinical and administrative stakeholders while steering application design, build, and implementation, tailoring database solutions to meet the unique needs of each clinical team and.

Dallas, Texas

• Co-led—in partnership with the Medical Director—selection of a new population health vendor, leveraging analytics to fuel data-driven decision-making and realize $4M in initial cost savings. Shed unprecedented light on.
• Managed RFI and RFP processes for population health and physician profiling contract negotiations, facilitating purchase and vendor negotiation efforts for the procurement of a new disease management program.

Houston, TX

As a solution architect and trainer, led the training and implementation support for Medic Vision as the new physician group practice management system for US Oncology affiliated practices throughout the United States. As a member of a national operational process improvement team, assessed and suggested clinical and revenue cycle optimization.

Master Of Science, Healthcare Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Healthcare Administration