Provide leadership and accountability for the establishment and execution of the enterprise-wide technology needs, operations, and strategy.As a member of the executive leadership team, participate in and contribute to overall company operations and strategy development, bringing current knowledge and future vision to leverage information and technology in business model design, process re-engineering, operational improvements, and support for the mission of IPM.Engage in ongoing communication with senior system executives and physician leaders to identify IT products and services that will improve patient care, operational efficiency, and major initiatives.Lead, manage, and coach the IT team to achieve the objectives outlined in the strategic planEstablish, implement, and monitor the IT Strategy to meet both short and long-range goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures.Develop the information technology business plan, control operational budget and expendituresProvide leadership and operational management of all physical IT infrastructure as well as key LOB’s and other applications.Link and apply complex technologies to business strategies as the organization and demands on IT continue to grow.Keep well-informed of evolving clinical and business priorities and goals to ensure IPM IT functions are being provided in a manner consistent with industry best practices.Review, Develop, Maintain, and enforce policy and procedures to ensure protection of IT assetsEstablish and oversee enterprise-wide technology policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines to prevent the unauthorized use, release, modification, or destruction of data.Provide leadership, knowledge and technology support for data analytics, population health, and reporting.

Digital Health Startup, AI for healthcare workflow automation

Allied Pain & Spine InstituteTrinity Surgery CenterNexGen HealthBest-in-class medical organization focused on outpatient multidisciplinary pain management and minimally invasive interventions with clinics and ambulatory surgery center in SF Bay Area. Trinity Surgery Center is a state-of-the-art facility providing a broad range of outpatient surgical procedures.• Work in collaboration with Finance, IT, HR, Revenue Cycle, Marketing, Medical Group, and Practice Management teams to provide executive leadership, mentorship, and supervision for all day-to-day business activities.• Provide vision and leadership with digital transformation and automation of workflows by introducing new tools. • Serve as an internal change agent to drive business process enhancements and innovation.• Develop, implement and enforce clinical and operational programs, policies, procedures and protocols.• Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders to drive adoption of new technology solutions.• Develop actionable business strategies and plans that ensure alignment with short-term and long-term objectives.• Design incentive compensation structures and performance benchmarks for medical providers and staff.• Manage relationship with vendors, contractors and health insurance payers.• Accountable for financial stewardship and planning. Set and control budget to maximize outputs and margins.

Advise and consult startups, established organizations, and investors on technology innovation and adaption, healthcare business, operations and revenue-cycle management, strategy and execution. Create and execute technology strategies that consistently meet and exceed organizational objectives. Evaluate, select, and implement emerging digital solutions for software applications, technology infrastructure, and business intelligence (AI, ML, Big Data) that that will improve productivity, increase efficiency, and automate existing workflows. Launch latest digital transformation and technology innovations for new enterprises and revamp IT systems for existing firms in order to provide significant savings and impact the bottom line.Develop and implement cyber security strategic plan and program that includes auditing, risk management, vulnerability assessment, and incident reporting.Assist healthcare organizations to create and implement population health, value based care, patient engagement and quality improvement programs.Develop and implement plans to transition workload from on-premise to public, private, or hybrid cloud.

Integrated delivery network (IDN) of 1200+ physicians providing care to over 500,000 patients at 35 outpatient clinics and 5 hospitals. • Executive leader responsible for company wide information technology management, execution and growth strategy.• Served as an internal change agent to drive business process enhancements and innovation.• Provided vision and leadership for developing and implementing enterprise-wide information technology initiatives. • Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to re-engineer business processes to achieve operational excellence, ROI and cost containment by introducing solutions to automate workflows. Redesigned end-to-end revenue cycle process by introducing automated workflows. This resulted in increased staff productivity by 25% and decreased A/R days by 20%.• Managed business intelligence and analytics needs for the organization. Introduce new tools that turn data into insights.• Provided leadership, mentorship and oversight of IT organizational structure, key talent development opportunities, succession planning and key IT organization gaps and risks.• Developed executive level communications and presentations to display and communicate strategic, operational and financial information. • Transformed patient care continuum to optimize clinical and operational effectiveness by introducing digital health solutions such as big data analytics using AI/ML, telemedicine, mobile health and cloud computing. This resulted in better diagnosis and treatments and enhanced patient experience.• Developed and implemented IT security strategic plan and program that includes auditing, risk management, vulnerability assessments, cyber security and incident management.• Negotiated and managed relationship with vendors keeping organization interest in mind. Re-negotiated vendor contracts - resulted in achieving $200,000 savings in license fees.• Created and monitored department annual budget.

• Managed strategic and tactical planning, development, evaluation and coordination of information technology systems for multi-specialty ambulatory clinics. • Planned data center modernization that involved relocation of servers, telephone system and networking equipment.• Created an online portal to streamline communication between call center and clinics.• Managed implementation of MedDecision (formerly Cerecons) Referrals management system and IBM (formerly Merge) PACS system.• Created strategy for IT infrastructure (storage, cloud-based computing, security and disaster recovery) and software capabilities for current and future organizational needs.

• Provided strategic support, technology vision and lead the development and implementation of the system wide information technology program.• Built early stage data warehouse to analyze claims and billing data using Cognos dashboards and reporting tools.• Upgraded LAN, WAN infrastructure from copper to fiber solution with redundancy.• Achieved $100K in annual telecom savings by setting up regular invoice audits and removing waste.