Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO), VP and AI/RCM/CDI Physician Executive– Lifepoint Health• National healthcare system with oversight of all clinical initiatives, technology and care delivery in each service area.• Influencer for all value, efficiency and automated enhancements including development of best-practice clinical strategies, workflows/order sets and patient centric solutions.• Key member on innovation, quality/regulatory, governance, analytics, supply chain and pharmacy teams.• Serves as the principle interface and clinical voice for local providers/clinical staff and corporate leadership.• Decision maker for AI, analytics, RPM and patient engagement measures deployed throughout our system. • Promote adherence of EHR optimal standards, build strategic alliances with IT/clinical staff/care teams and pursuing long-term clinical IT support throughout the organization.• Engagement with corporate leaders and local hospital/C-suite members to ensure HIM/QA/UM standards.• Oversight of change management processes and population health initiatives within the organization.• Perform role as chief medical informaticist, utilize multiple EHR applications to improve care processes while promoting interoperability and review workflows to ensure evidence-based healthcare standards are followed.• Develop clinical documentation improvement (CDI)/Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) protocols and claim denial/utilization review (UR) tools to improve quality metrics and billing/coding efforts in all care settings. • Creation of enterprise-wide, best practice training protocols via web-based, virtual and in-person venues.• SME involved with payer reimbursement, claim processing/submission, revenue integrity and collections.• Cultivate physician commitment via specialty-specific education/adoption and training of EHR guidelines including implementation of and adherence to state-by-state, regulatory (CMS) and licensure parameters.

• Cerner EHR build/implementation/go-live event for 26 ambulatory (primary & specialty) clinics.• Established best-practice strategies, provider adoption, IT/informatics support & workflow optimization.• Collaborated with organization leaders/directors on governance and compliance using EHR functionality.• Developed provider education/adoption tools and training protocols to build organization competency.

• Cerner EHR build/optimization/upgrade at university/teaching medical facilities including a level I trauma center and women’s/children’s specialty hospital (overseeing all IT issues with in ED, OR, OB, Pediatric, and PACU settings) via SurgiNet, SA Anesthesia, and PowerChart.• Clinical design/build, testing strategy, at-the-elbow support, and workflow process expertise.• Creation and writing of DA2 reports/queries within all Cerner reporting domains.

• HIT conversion via EHR build/install/upgrade at 3 hospitals/EDs and 26 clinical practices.• Developed workflow, built all emergency medicine content for 3 EDs, performed required testing within PowerChart and supported end users via integration and optimization.• Cerner Millennium EHR Consultant (including PowerChart, FirstNet, Oncology, CCL/Discern Analytics 2.0) via clinical design/build, testing strategy, and workflow process expertise.

• PM for EHR creation/strategic planning, practice management and delivery of medical services. • Conducted strategic planning for automation of clinical EHR used on multiple healthcare settings including hospitals, long term care facilities and home health/hospice. • Led initiation and implementation of data analytics with in a healthcare environment to improve reporting principles, create RCM models and adhere to population health initiatives.

• Trained and managed implementation of medical software for use by hospital-based outpatient specialty clinics creating a full cycle patient chart fully integrated via EMR system. • Worked as clinical lead, case management, implementation, & release of HIT platform (Epic) including go-live/rollout & hospital integration.

• Surgical/Medical residency with end-to-end ambulatory/clinical/surgical setting experience.• IRB wound care research with writing/editing experience in medical journals.• Extensive training and use of VistA EHR, GE Centricity and CPRS client-server interfaces.