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Robert J. Jablonski
Robert J. Jablonski is an executive consultant with over 15 years of experience. He has served numerous clients in the fields of health care, purchasing, supply chain management and performance improvement. During his professional career, he has worked with such firms as Ernst & Young, Arthur Andersen, Deloitte & Touche, FHP International, Burroughs Corporation and Chrysler Corporation. He is the founder and CEO of RoPat Associates, LLC, a health care consulting firm specializing in supply chain management and technology – driven business process redesign.
Rob has previously served on the board of the Southern California Chapter of HIMSS and has been an HIMSS member since 1988. He has twice been a presenter at the HIMSS National Conference, and has published several articles on supply chain management and business process improvement in health care.
Monte Prentice
Currently a Senior Consultant with Healthcare Informatics Associates, Inc. (HIA), Monte
Prentice has several years experience in a variety of projects and implementations
including Help Desk Implementation, Disaster Recovery planning and various integration
strategies.
Monte Prentice has been on the Board of Directors at HIMSS-WA since 2001, where previously he was the Programs Director. For the 2006-2007 term, he is serving as the President.
Monte graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a MS in Health Informatics. While there, he was recognized by the Alabama HIMSS Chapter as the Outstanding Graduate student for 1996. Monte currently helps clients implement an assortment of interface and integration solutions using GE Enterprise Centricity (formerly known as Carecast) and Epic Systems as well as application support for GE Enterprise Centricity.
Becky Hood
Becky Hood is Associate Chief Information Officer for CliniTech Information Resources. CliniTech is an ISO serving The Everett Clinic and Wenatchee Valley Medi ca l Center . Becky has been in Information Systems for 23 years and in Health ca re for 25 years. Her ca reer includes the full circle of Health ca re IT – from the payer, software vendor, and provider perspectives.
At CliniTech for the past 11 years, Becky has overseen the development of an in-house EMR as well as the implementation of EpicCare. Becky has also helped facilitate interfaces and data/appli ca tion sharing with other physician practices and hospitals in the Everett and Wenatchee communities, and participated as a beta partner with AMGA and Anceta in the development of a clini ca l data warehouse.
Becky holds an MBA from Seattle University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Written Communi ca tions from Mills College . Becky is a Certified Professional in Health ca re Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS), and is currently serving as President-Elect.
Contact information:
Becky Hood, MBA, CPHIMS
Associate CIO
CliniTech Information Resources
425-257-1425
Jody Albright
Jody Albright is the Western Washington Chief Information Officer at Providence Health and Services. Jody has been in Information Services for 20 years and the Health Care Industry for four years. In the past, she has held positions as a business consultant/Project Manager, multiple management positions in Information Systems and Finance in the Aerospace Industry and was a geophysicist in the Oil Industry. At Providence , she started as a consultant and was hired as the Director of Technology. Jody has been leading the IS organization in Western Washington for 2 years and in that time has led the team in implementing best practice application infrastructures, developing a strategic plan for the Acute Care facilities to achieve the corporate quality goals and chartered an IT Governance team of C level executives to oversee the implementation of the strategic plan. The team is currently implementing EHR technologies across the continuum of care and Bar Coded Medication Administration in the acute care facilities.
Jody holds an MBA in from the University of Washington and a Bachelor's Degree in Geophysics from Western Washington University.
Contact information:
Jody.albright@providence.org
Michelle L. Holmes
Ms. Holmes is a manager in ECG Management Consultants, Inc.’s Healthcare Information Technology (IT) practice. Prior to joining ECG, Ms. Holmes was an internal consultant in the Health Informatics division of Group Health Cooperative. Her focus was on curriculum design and implementation of the EpicCare ambulatory clinical information system, as well as the development of population management and decision support tools in EpicCare to enable heart disease and diabetes care, cancer screening, and childhood immunization tracking. At ECG, Ms. Holmes focuses on assessing the requirements and offerings of systems designed specifically to improve the care of patients. Her primary interest is the integration of quality initiatives into clinical information systems to improve patient outcomes, as well as the healthcare of patients with chronic diseases.
Contact information:
ECG Management Consultants, Inc.
1111 Third Avenue, Suite 2700
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 689-2200 (phone)
(206) 689-2209 (fax)
mholmes@ecgmc.com
Kristin Wise
Kristin Wise has been in Healthcare Informatics since 2000 and is currently a Senior Systems Analyst at Evergreen Healthcare. Kristin has been involved in all aspects of informatics including design and build, testing, implementation and overall project management. She has also been directly involved in several patient safety initiatives as well as Disaster Recovery planning. Kristin's primary focus has been the Cerner EHR, but she has also worked within the following healthcare areas: Computrition, CBORD and VolunteerWorks.
Kristin has been on the HIMSS-WA Board of Directors since 2006 and is currently serving as Chair of Vendor Relations for the 2007-2008 term.
Contact information:
Kristin Wise
Senior Systems Analyst, Cerner Clinical Application Team
Evergreen Healthcare
12034 NE 130th Lane
Kirkland, WA 98034
425-899-1798
akwise@evergreenhealthcare.org
Ernie Hood
Ernie Hood is currently Chief Information Officer at Group Health Cooperative. Ernie has been in Information Services for 25 years and the Health Care Industry for fourteen years. He has played many different roles in his career from programmer to DBA to Analyst, Project Manager and Director. At Group Health he has lead the Data Resources Group, Data Center Operations and various Application Development groups. Ernie has been a key leader on Group Health's efforts to standardize infrastructure, develop a leading edge Data Warehouse and to develop portals. Ernie is dedicated to the concept of supplying information technology to all of Group Health's customers and partners whether they be members, patients, providers, brokers, employers or staff.
Ernie holds an MBA in Management of Information Systems from the University of Houston and a Bachelor's Degree in History from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Contact information:
Group Health Cooperative
320 Westlake Ave North
Seattle WA 98121
hood.e@ghc.org
Barbara L. Graves, RN, CPHQ
Barbara has over 20 years experience as a health care consultant, specializing in clinical performance improvement. She is a uniquely qualified healthcare leader in provider, managed care payer, and purchaser environments. She has demonstrated success in developing innovative business and strategic plans and in directing and coordinating services across multiple departments. Barbara is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality with expertise in healthcare quality improvement and medical management. Areas of expertise include Health Care Quality Improvement, Continuous Performance Improvement, Clinical Process Redesign, Utilization and Case Management, Operational and Project Administration, and Population and Disease Management.
Contact information:
Barbara Graves, RN, CPHQ
Healthcare Performance and Quality Improvement
Office: (206) 937-7926
Mobile: (425) 941-6654
bl_graves@msn.com
Sherry L. Reynolds
Sherry Reynolds is currently the Executive Director of the Alliance 4 Health where she is directing the development of a beta project for an alternative health PHR. She has over 15 years of experience as a project director, consultant and engineer in both software development, implementations and the health care industry. She recently won a 2 million dollar demonstration grant to link the EMS system to PHR's and her recent EMR projects have have included implementations at Stanford Medical Center, Swedish Medical Center and Group Health.
She has extensive experience at the Executive level of Government and the Health Care industry and currently sits on the AHIC Successor (A2) Planning Group for the Office of the National Coordinator, HHS in Washington, DC where she is responsible for the creation of a new board and entity to implement Medical Informatics policy on a National Basis. She was also one of the founding members of the Consumer Advisory Group (CAG) for the Puget Sound Health Alliance, a Nationally recognized regional partnership involving Boeing, Washington Mutual, Starbucks, King County, physicians, hospitals, patients, labor, health plans, and others working together to improve quality and efficiency for over 2 million people in the Puget Sound region. In her spare time she is on the advisory board of the Healthy Washington Alliance where she represents the over 300,000 people in Washington State who purchase individual insurance and recently co-founded Sustainable Wallingford as well.
Sherry double majored in bio-medical engineering and engineering management at USC and has a degree in Finance from OSU as well. She has been a member since 2005, is the first legislative chapter advocate for the Washington chapter and has been a board member since 2007.
Contact information:
Sherry L. Reynolds
Executive Director
Alliance 4 Health
Mobile: (425) 577-7252
s.reynolds@alliance4health.org
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