An experienced healthcare information technology (HIT) professional. With experience in adult and pediatric hospitals in non-profit and academic environments as well as a healthcare software company. Extensive consulting experience. Possesses demonstrated strengths in aligning HIT with the organization’s strategic plan, spearheading project management, facilitating enterprise-wide transformation and building exceptional teams who are customer service focused.
Stanford Health Care, Pleasanton CA 2017
Executive Director Digital Solutions Valley Care
Hired to integrate Stanford Health Care’s community hospital affiliate into the information technology structure provided by Stanford Health Care. Valley Care is a community hospital located about 30 miles northeast from the main Palo Alto campus. Work included insourcing current legacy technology into the Stanford model with the ultimate goal of implementing Epic for the Valley Care hospital.
Insourcing legacy support was completed November 2016. This included e-mail, Nextgen practice management, MS4 hospital information system, medication administration, biomedical engineering, and other departmental systems including surgery and the emergency department. ERP is scheduled to be completed first quarter CY 2017.
Although the Epic project was underway, leadership changes and recent financial challenges have forced a re-calculation of scope and timing. Support for this project remains strong and is expected to be completed in CY 2017.
DZL Solution 2015
Founder
Consulting firm targeting entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley. Mission is to educate start-ups about the healthcare business environment. Projects include physician communication, FHIR and SMART, personal health monitors, population health and data analytics. Current areas of focus: data analytics, population health, leadership and alternative payment mechanisms.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Oakland, Oakland, California 2000 – 2015
Benioff Oakland has two acute-care hospital campuses and seven remote ambulatory sites generating about 12,000 admissions, 50,000 emergency visits, and 250,000 ambulatory visits per year. With a net revenue of $600 million and 3,000 employees. Oakland supports a 190-bed full-service pediatric hospital with more than 35 subspecialties, 80 residents and fellows, a pediatric level I trauma center designation and a $30 million research function. Children’s Hospital Oakland affiliated with UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco in January 2014 to become a 400-bed regional pediatric center.
Hired to be CIO to bring the medical center into the electronic medical record age, we took deliberate steps to ultimately select, implement and optimize EPIC. In 2010, we developed a five-year, $125 million IT plan to implement EPIC, a lab system (SoftLab), replace the current ERP system, build a primary and back-up data centers and upgraded the local and wide area networks, All projects completed on-time and under budget.