New York City Metropolitan Area
EITS healthcare professional with EPIC accreditation in Research. 15+ years experience in management, leveraging expertise in EMR consulting, training, program implementation, EMR consulting, patient care access, and billing.
• EPIC Accreditation in Research • Plan, organize, facilitate, and lead meetings and workgroups as well as oversee and execute follow-up activities. • Ensure software development team accounts for all defined requirements in coordination with quality assurance team. Ensure that all quality standards comply with internal policies and industry standards. • Document changes to baseline requirements through standard change control process. Document software test plans, technical requirements, release notes, user and training guidelines and other materials. • Plan, coordinate, and support unit acceptance testing and subsequent deployments in coordination with other team leaders. • Perform end user and application support functions including EPIC research build, problem solving, and resolution of application function defects. Provide systems and application training. • Develop and execute project presentations.
• Review active protocols and completed CMS billing analysis to ensure accuracy of visits, tests and procedures prior to entering into Epic; ensure proper delineation and segregation of research tests and procedures in Epic. • Assist PIs and study teams at NYC Health + Hospitals with aspects of building study visits into research modules in Epic. • Work with and provide Epic guidance to hospital research staff as needed, including but not limited to principal investigators, research coordinators, finance and billing staff, scheduling and front desk staff. • Participate in Epic sub-committee meetings to aid in the successful implementation of the research billing module across the H+H system. • Work closely with the Research Administration Epic Research Billing Analyst to ensure accuracy of billable procedures in Epic. • Provides administrative research support, as needed, for other research areas or Research Administration projects
• Contracted to work as an Epic Cadence Conversion Analyst for NYU Winthrop. • Supported NYU Winthrop with their manual data conversion with their new Epic system. • Aided clinics with creating and scheduling appointments, referrals, appointment templates, and any related Epic go live issues.
• Worked as a Site Manager and a Site Lead for well over 10 projects. Each implementation projects ranged between 10 to 80 contractors. I have managed and assisted on listed projects below: o St. Luke’s Hospitals in Allentown, PA, o 8 Implementations with Atlantic Health System in Morristown, NJ o CHI St. Alexius Health in Bismarck, ND o Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, IN o Baptist Health in Richmond, KY o Mercy Health in Akron, OH o Select Rehab Hospital in St. Louis, MO • Worked with Project Management on scheduling contractors and logistics for each project, which range from scheduling all contractors to their contracted location. Making sure each hired contractor • Help developed daily reports and attend daily meetings. Which resulted in daily updates on the projects, possible changes that needed to be made on the schedule base on the client’s needs. Reviewing the burn report which consist of the number of hours budgeted for each project. • Trained providers in a classroom setting on Dragon Dictation and EMR personalization.
• Provided provider and Nursing support for the Endocrinology clinic. • Worked with several providers on creating templates and preferences list for the providers. • Assisted providers on closing out encounters and clearing their inbasket. • Helped the M.A.’s room patients, Collect specimen and print labels in Epic • Worked with the Office Manager on an effective workflow for the clinic • Helped Office manager create and assign Pools for her staff. • Also contracted to do a week of classroom personalization training for providers. • Classroom training consist of: creating macros, preference list, creating templates, quick actions for their inbasket, etc…
• Provided provider support for several different clinics for the AMB Phase. • Help create and set up templates and preferences list for the providers. • Assisted providers on closing out encounters and clearing their inbasket. • Selected as a Zone lead for the Inpatient phase. • Supported and helped look over the ICU Unit • Provided leadership and support to other consultants in the ICU.
• Provided provider support for The Riverside Family Medical at Laurie Station. • Help create and set up templates and preferences list for the providers. • Assisted M.A. and RNs with INR’s and nurse visits. • Showed providers, Nurses, and front desk how to clear their in basket messages. • Supported front desk on how to check in and check out patients. • Provided Support for the 2014 Epic Version.