Develop and lead revenue growth opportunities. Grow strong customer relationships and ensure customer happiness. Ensure lean operations bring the most value to our customers and the most take-home pay for our consultants.Anura Connect is a boutique Epic consulting firm founded by former Nordic & Bluetree founders and Epic professionals. With our no frills approach, we deliver top tier Epic consultants and personalized service without the overhead. Focused on quality and agility, we aim to empower both our consultants and clients through real relationships and thoughtful matchmaking.

Group FitnessI am a Certified Group Fitness Instructor through the American Council on Exercise (ACE). I teach a variety of group exercise formats including Barre, High Intensity Internal Training (HIIT), Indoor Cycling, Circuit Training, Boot Camps, Cardio Dance Aerobics, and Sculpt. I teach outdoor classes in Smithsburg MD as well as virtual classes via Zoom.I create online workout videos which are all accessible at https://nicolemeidingerfitness.vhx.tv/.Personal TrainingI am also a Certified Personal Trainer through the National Association for Sports Medicine (NASM). I focus on clients who are looking for an alternative to the gym environment. My method focuses on body weight training and limited equipment. I want my clients to be able to use the routines without me at home or when traveling for work or pleasure. You don’t need a lot of equipment to be fit!I have an ACE certification in Nutrition as well as a specialization in Geriatric Fitness.

When I see something with potential, I like to evangelize it. I think Nate and Melissa are really on to something with their automated PB underpayment detection tool so I'm helping them tell the healthcare industry about it.Switch RCM focuses on revenue cycle & payment optimization and recovery in healthcare. They make software and provide services for healthcare providers to identify and fix underpayment issues, recover lost revenue due to undercharging and denials, and increase future revenue with improved contract negotiations. We are also ninjas at getting the data you need out of Epic for rev cycle modeling and analytics.

Acted as a liaison between Nordic and newly acquired rev cycle transformation practice· Partnered with the acquired practice to integrate their team and services into Nordic from a sales, account management, delivery, and shared services perspective· Advised Nordic on techniques to scale the newly acquired business to meet financial targets over the next three years

· Created business development department to focus on new client acquisitions – up until this point, Nordic only had the bandwidth to support existing accounts· Created and defined the new business sales strategy and hired and trained three new business development directors· Added 41 new clients in 2016 with implementation of new business development team· Coached and guided executive leadership on scaling strategy for sales and account management as we grew from a small to mid-sized business· Partnered with executive leadership to develop sales and marketing strategy for new business lines – during my tenure, Nordic’s goal was to expand from Epic staff augmentation to a broader global strategic services consulting firm for healthcare organizations· Championed and implemented more stringent CRM documentation standards and revenue metrics for overarching sales and account management team

One of initial leaders that started and grew BlueTree as a company. Landed initial sales for the company when it was a start-up and taught leadership how to sell their services, market their brand, and build a sales and account management division. As part of the sales team, I guided Epic customers through their Enterprise implementation and staffing plans. I worked with customers to find the right staffing plan to meet their needs, whether that be an FTE, pairing their team with mentors, a full-time onsite consultant, a remote consultant or matching them with niche expertise for a part-time/small project. IT projects lists keep growing, but IT budgets are contracting so I found creative ways to get the work done with customers.

• Assessed and implemented go-live planning and readiness for executive leadership in the three months leading up to their big bang Epic Enterprise go-live at their 800 bed academic medical center and 60 plus specialties and sub-specialties• Advised executive team on enterprise governance structure, clinical engagement in optimization and prioritization, and change control• Created global implementation schedule and resource needs for Wake Forest over the next two years (including rollouts, optimization, ICD-10, meaningful use and Epic upgrade)• Lead Enterprise Epic rollouts to the following:o 120 bed community hospitalo 20 bed critical access hospitalo Brand new community hospital campus with net new services for OR, ED, lab, specialty clinics (ortho, neuro, cardiology, etc), imaging and other ancillaries• Developed and lead rapid rollout/Community Connect implementation for newly acquired clinics and community physicians• Managed pre-go-live care plan implementation with Provation third party evidenced based content• Guided Ambulatory team on post-live optimization and stabilization strategy for 60 plus specialties

• Responsible for creation of account management division at Zynx including account management methodology, recruiting and hiring of account management team, management of existing account management team, and development of training curriculum• Reported to VP of Sales and COO• Engaged executive team (CIO, CMIO, CNO) at client sites that were threatening cancelation and implemented remediation strategies to ensure client renewal• Created and implemented client renewal strategy for 100 clients up for renewal in 2012• Designed and implemented ongoing client retention strategy for client base of 500 – 2012 focus of re-engaging our client base, stabilizing relationships and engaging C-suite in clinical decision support strategy for their organizations• Managed a team of four account managers while recruiting and hiring for 20 additional positions• Facilitated and encouraged “team” concept for ongoing client support at Zynx – first time that clients were assigned sales, project management, account management, clinician and technical support team for client maintenance

• Sold enterprise healthcare software solutions (clinical, access and billing products) to pediatric, academic and large integrated healthcare systems• Reported to CEO and VP of Sales• Built relationships with C-level executives at large prestigious healthcare systems across the United States and partnered with them to leverage our software to align with their clinical transformation initiatives• Guided healthcare software development with engineering/development based on client feedback• Worked with clients to refine and make the best use of multi-million dollar budgets and total cost of ownership estimates (often between $40 and $150M budgets)• Developed new sales and implementation strategies to accommodate ever changing healthcare landscape (for example, the ARRA/HITECH act)• Empowered client executives to engage and lead their counterparts in executing a new vision/direction for their organization• Managed client accounts and customer service relationship after the sale to ensure they met their goals/needed outcomes and had continued client satisfaction

•• Customer Happiness Executive for 22 Epic clients using CPMRC evidence based third party content within Epic• Managed third party relationship at the executive level with CPMRC and was sales liaison for Epic clients and CPMRC• Responsible for execution and delivery of CPM content upgrade for Epic customers in 2007 (first ever CPM content upgrade with Epic)• Coached clients on development of training tools and education methodology to prepare staff for CPM interdisciplinary practice changes as well as technology changes at go-live• Analyzed current clinical workflows and re-engineered to maximize operational efficiencies, improve staff communication, and enhance patient outcomes• Lead change management initiatives in partnership with client operational executive leadership (implementing evidence-based care guidelines, switching to a Within Defined Limits charting framework, promoting interdisciplinary care coordination, etc.)

• Analyzed and interpreted consumer market research study data to deliver final reports and recommendations for major clients in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry on how to strengthen initiatives and improve product volume potential• Consulted with clients in concept/product development and positioning/marketing strategy for new product launches• Leveraged data across multiple sources to bring clarity to business issues and help anticipate business/category issues that could impact a product’s success in market

• Collaborated with academic professors to produce journal articles that consistently placed at top academic journals• Built and maintained scientific data sets• Statistically analyzed and interpreted county-level and individual-level data using statistical software packages

• Coordinated county-level ambulance services for a 26-bed rural hospital (call area of approximately 800 square miles)• Practiced as an EMT-Intermediate (certified in 1998)• Developed EMT-Basic curriculum, coursework and evaluation methods and taught and lead EMT-B students through certification process