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Health Information Architecture, Data Modeling, and Enterprise Architecture Planning


 

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Summary

Seasoned Health Information Technology executive, expert strategic planner, world-class enterprise data architect with  25 years experience in business/clinical to IT fit.  Strong record influencing government and private sector executives and board members on their healthcare strategic IT vision and transforming the organization by selecting and linking technology to fit the business strategy.

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Experience

 

Professional

Contributions

 

Education

 

Licensure and Memberships

 

Technical Skills

 

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  • As Director of Information Technology (C-level) at the US Pharmacopeia in 1997-98 led a $7+MM, 97 FTE corporate IT program to a 20% productivity increase while reducing operating cost by $1MM. 

  • In 1992, received award from Paul Strassmann, head of Defense Information Systems Agency, for contributions to reengineering Military Health System IT programs to meet DoD strategic business objectives.

  • Nationally invited author and speaker, and leader in the national health IT standards community.  Paper on the strategic ROI for health IT was nominated for the Best of Symposium award at the 1997 Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. 

  • World-class enterprise architect and modeler with strong program, project, and systems development management experience.

 

 

Professional Experience

2002 – present:  Computer Sciences Corporation

Principal Consultant - IT architecture adviser to corporate executives and information architect:

  • Data architecture lead for a large payor DB2 database migration project

  • Informatics advisor on the world's largest clinical data warehouse project

  • Information architecture lead for the Clinical Knowledge Engine data warehouse, and for pharmaceutical, and provider clients

  • Project manager for a pharmaceutical ERP strategic planning project

  • Data architect for a pharmaceutical CRM project

  • Enterprise data architect and modeler at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Architecture and modeling guru and lead educator for CSC's national consulting practice on modeling and ERwin.

2002:  Eclipsys Corporation

Senior Product Planner - Product strategist for SunriseXA Clinical Manager and Disease Manager.  Project manager and informatics lead for the Tablet PC clinical prototype, leading a team of clinicians and Microsoft engineers to develop graphic tools and operating system services.

1999 – 2002:  First Consulting Group

 

Senior Manager of Systems Development - Strategic IT technical advisor to senior Defense Department executives - Military Health System financial management and ERP systems; Strategic IT advisor to private sector healthcare executives;  Project manager and technical architect on numerous government and private sector projects.

 

1999: Paragon Computer Professionals

 

Technical Lead - Telecomm telemarketing data warehouse.

 

1998-1999: Independent Consultant

Enterprise Architecture Planning and information architecture for NATO and US clients.

1996-1998: U.S. Pharmacopeia

Director of Information Technology (CIO), corporate IT program with 97 FTEs and 9 direct reports at director/manager level.  Promoted from Director of Clinical Informatics (electronic product development).

1976-1996: U.S. Navy Dental Corps

Information Technology executive and deputy program manager, IT project manager, clinical research laboratory division director, clinic manager, clinical IT director, clinic division director, clinician.  1994-96 - Deputy Program Manager and Technical Director of $100MM DoD clinical system development program.  First IT Director for Navy Dentistry, prepared and implemented IT strategic plan for over 30 facilities world-wide, created an organizational infrastructure, and launched an annual training program.   Architect, designer and project manager of a 5-clinic reporting network.  Architect and designer of a mainframe-based population health management system.  Led an informatics research program investigating electronic health records, the clinician-system interface, and how to introduce IT to improve clinician work patterns.

 

 

Professional CONTRIBUTIONS

 

  • In mid-1990’s, no data level national standard existed for the clinical data architecture.  Led standardization committee effort, performed process and data modeling, wrote specification, and guided consensus review process resulting in the adoption of the ANSI 1000 Specification in 2001.  This specification remains the first and only clinical data architecture standard in the world.
  • Previously there were no best practices or quality standards for health information modeling.  Led the standardization effort and wrote the ASTM Standard 2145 on modeling best practices that was adopted in 2001.
  • Integration of healthcare information and information systems has a history of professional and political impediments.  Authored the ADA House of Delegates Resolution 92H-1996 on seamless data availability across the health professions.  This was the first formal endorsement of this concept by a healthcare professional organization, and predates the NHII data interoperability initiative by 6 years.
  • Throughout a 22+ year career in clinical informatics, published over 100 technical and professional papers, along with chapters in 3 books on health informatics and electronic health records.  Also have numerous professional presentations and briefings at the executive and board level in both Federal Government and private sector organizations.
 

 

Education

  • MPH in Health Services Administration, 1996, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD.

  • MA Computer Data Management and Health Services Management, 1985, Webster University, St. Louis, MO.

  • Fellowship Certificate in Science and Research, 1983, Navy Medical Research and Development Command, Bethesda, MD

  • Certificate in Automated Data Processing with President’s Honors, 1982, City Colleges of Chicago, IL.

  • Doctor of Dental Surgery, 1976, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

  • BS Education/Chemistry, 1968, Kutztown State College, Kutztown, PA.

  • Over 300 hours continuing professional and IT technical education

 

 

Professional Licensure and Memberships

  • Chair ASTM E.31 subcommittees on Electronic Health Records and Modeling

  • Chair ADA SCDI Electronic Health Records subcommittee
  • Member, IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee
  • Vocabulary facilitator HL7 Federal Projects
  • Active professional license: Wisconsin – Dentistry 3995-015.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Skillset Includes

  • IT/IM strategic planning, business linking strategy, IT P&L.

  • Life Cycle Management – SDLC, XP, RUP; understands impact of CMM, ISO 9000-3 on the system lifecycle.

  • Enterprise Architecture Planning, Zachman Framework, FEAF, and Spewak.

  • Data management planning, implementation, and data cleansing, including Siperian and Trillium.

  • Database and Metadata – model driven DB and DW design, forward/reverse engineering and model synchronization in DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Mumps/M/Cache.

  • Modeling – UML, Martin/Chen/IE, and IDEF notations using Rational Enterprise Suite (Rose), CA AllFusion (ERWin, BPWin, Datga Model Validator) CASE tools. 

  • Tiered client-server and web-based system architecture, logical and physical.

  • MS Office suite including Visio.