Randy Richards Email & Phone Number

Salinas, California, US

Salinas, California, US

Manage Clinical Informatics team of 5, Supporting Acute care EMR, Technical Build, Data Quality, Clinical Quality, Clinical Content, End User Support, Regulatory and Quality reporting and support

Salinas, California, US

Support Hospital EMR, MEDITECH build (PCS, OM, EDM), clinical workflow development, content specialist, rule development, IMO management, eCQM management, clinical data reporting (SQL)

Dallas, Texas, US

• Managed data analytics BI team of 5, ensuring accuracy of auditable data; led compliance, quality, executive presentations, and guidance of clinical actions and workflows for hospital staff.
• Delivered time and cost savings as a Change Agent; captured ~$5M in savings by initiating and managing conversion to an EHR-based calculation system with unified reporting layer.
• Creatively solved regulatory compliance issues through optimizing clinical workflow, operationalizing technology, automating EHR interoperability, predictive modeling, and translating data into informative and.
• Developed enterprise regulatory dashboard for MU/PI; provided CMS measure compliance statistics for executive leadership and actionable data for hospital staff while controlling reporting for 60+ hospitals to avoid.
• Engaged in vendor contract negotiation and solution analysis, budgeting, and project planning; directed implementation of third-party regulatory calculation engine utilizing ETL concepts to normalize health data across.
• Launched reporting and metric dashboard for Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) with codified DRG and CPOE order set utilization for 23 separate measures; delivered insights on physician performance.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Brought in to coordinate regulatory compliance between Corporate and hospitals; quickly grew to include CMS regulatory guidance, data analytics, and development of an inhouse certified regulatory calculation engine.
• Developed operational reports for Electronic Medication Administration Record (eMAR) and Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE), providing detailed analysis and compliance statistics.

• Managed Cerner Millennium implementation for 260-bed hospital, leading testing, training, and support team; collaborated with EHR vendors, corporate employees, and consultants.
• Created operational census report combining patient, clinical, quality, and regulatory data into a graphical/visual tool to replace a paper process; improved clinical management of patients.
• Automated extraction of Business Objects reports into a secure SharePoint for fast access to near-real-time reporting; adopted as a standard solution across all Tenet hospitals.Managed multi-phase implementation of.
• Developed several operational reports that became standard reports at all Tenet hospitals, including a census report which combines patient demographics, clinical data, quality data and regulatory data points into a.
• Developed automated report delivery method to extract Business Objects reports into a secure SharePoint for fast access and near time reporting for end users, the process was adopted as a Tenet standard and implemented.
• Active participant in committees for accreditation survey readiness, quality improvement, and adverse outcomes

Adult Critical Care RN, Telemetry RN.

Adult Critical Care

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Health Informatics

A.S., Nursing, Mathematics