Lead Consultant
CurrentM. Maxwell Stroud, MSW is a Lead Consultant in healthcare IT at with a professional background in both healthcare and social work. Max has been consulting in Health IT for over 13 years, primarily in the ambulatory space. She has worked with every aspect of health IT in ambulatory care including facilitating clinics through the transition from paper to electronic formats, supporting teams through major system-wide upgrades as well as add-on implementations and integration projects. Max has acted as the lead systems analyst for organizations undergoing transition or covering a leave of absence. Max has a passion for collaborative process and building processes that bring all stakeholders to the table to build systems that meet the needs of the business organization, the providers and the patients.PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS• Software Development/QA experience including:o Working on Agile teams to build new software products with FHIR backends for seamless integration with existing enterprise healthcare systems.o QA Lead role on software development projectso Collaborative writing and refinement of requirementso Transforming technical & business requirements into actionable test planso Front end data validationo Work with QA teams in development of validation and regression test plans.o Developed test plan for initial beta testing of VitalCenter business continuity solution.o Worked with the VitalCenter development and QA team.o Prioritization and refinement of requirements to meet milestone dates.• Extensive EHR consulting experience including:o Acting as the lead systems analyst for organizations undergoing transition.o Implementations and major upgradeso Integrationso Trainingo Workflow analysis and redesign for upgrades and optimizationso Design and Build Work for new practices including complex specialties like Oncologyo Advised client on functional design and build for Enterprise EHR upgrades, optimizations, and integrations.