Thursday, February 1, 2007

EMR Implementation for Minor Care Clinic

02/01/2007 - 05/31/2007
As the Director of Information Technology for Corner Care Clinic I chartered the initiative to implement an Electronic Medical Record for the company. The goal of implementing an EMR was to provide the clinic staff (Nurse Practitioners & Physicians) with a user-friendly, streamlined application that adhered to the companies business policies. The project entailed vendor/contract negotiation, application design & testing, roll-out strategy development, training guide development, report development, etc.

Challenges that existed included: inclusion of medical billing business rules, insurance eligibility rules, business performance reporting, and user acceptance. These challenges were overcome through effective communication with the respective teams involved with the project.

Overall, this project was a success for the company by allowing for the clinic practitioners to examine and document a patient visit in a timely manner while maintaining the business rules/procedures required by the company.

Project Mgmt Process Breakdown
Initiating: 40
Planning: 80
Executing: 120
Monitoring/Controlling: 40
Closing: 40
Total Hours: 320

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Company Website Implementation

08/15/06-10/01/06

As part of promoting any new business, especially a startup, it is important to have a presence on the Internet. In reviewing various websites it was our goal to have a very simplified yet informative website for our customers. This was achieved by presenting a very clean and organized feel so that the consumer could easily find our services, locations, and promotions as well as review more behind the scenes details of the company. The site creation was an educational experience that allowed me to brush up on my development skills plus utilize some new tools. Provided below is a snapshot of the company's home page.



Project Mgmt Process Breakdown
Initiating: 2
Planning: 8
Executing: 120
Monitoring/Controlling: 8
Closing: 2
Total Hours: 140

Thursday, June 1, 2006

IT Policy & Procedure

06/01/06-07/31/06
As part of the startup of a minor care clinic, policy and procedures (P&P) were required to be developed and implemented prior to opening the first business location in October of 2006. In developing the IT P&P there had to be ones that applied to the corporate office as well as the remote clinic sites. The challenging decision was whether to create a single P&P for the entire company or to have a separate one for corporate and clinic operations. In order to keep it straightforward for the clinical staff there two separate P&P created for the organization. In the long run this made it easier for everyone to know which P&P applied to their respective areas in the organization.

The IT P&P included the following:
  • Disaster Recovery: data retention, backup procedures
  • Data Security (adhering to HIPAA standards): workstation, server, password retention
  • Telecommunication Policies: cell phone usage and long distance
  • Change control: systems, user access

Project Mgmt Process Breakdown
Initiating: 2
Planning: 2
Executing: 40
Monitoring/Controlling: 8
Closing: 1
Total Hours: 53

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Great Plains Implementation

03/01/06-05/31/06

Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Business Line Creation

11/01/05-12/31/05


Project Mgmt Process Breakdown
Initiating: 3
Planning: 3
Executing: 160
Monitoring/Controlling: 6
Closing: 2
Total Hours: 174

Thursday, April 1, 2004

Citrix Farm Implementation

04/01/04-04-04/31/04

Using standard project management skills designed and implemented Windows 2000-Citrix MetaFrame XP server farm to host Siebel 6 and Hyperion 6.1 for 24X7 access for 200-300 remote users. This project entailed developing hardware requirements/costs, server implementation into LAN environment, scheduling the installation of clients, and developing ongoing management of the server farm once the project was completed.


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