Experience: Details of MedPlus / Quest Diagnostics Tenure

Primary responsibilities have been to:
• Analyze business processes, business rules and process workflows
• Convene stakeholder meetings to elicit requirements
• Manage relationships among different stakeholder groups to obtain consensus and establish priorities
• Conduct presentations and workshops in the early stages of discovery
• Conduct surveys with existing and potential customers

In the last six years I have worked with several different SDLC methodologies:
• Classic waterfall-based project that relied on formal business requirement documents, use cases, and software requirement specifications.
• Agile based methodologies that were organized around product owner and scrum teams and relied upon user stories for documentation.
• Hybrid methodologies that employed cross-functional teams and relied upon either use cases and functional requirements or user stories.

Project content was primarily in the following health care areas:
Electronic Health Record systems: Worked on several facets of Quest Diagnostics EHR product, Care360 Labs and Meds. Projects focused on:

  • Interfacing an EHR with state immunization registries
  • Adding functionality for electronic prescribing and administered medications
  • Developing process to standardize and customize templates to capture clinical data
  • Eliciting and analyzing requirements for Meaningful Use (Stages 1 and 2)
  • Supporting a Mobile EHR application

Document Management and Imaging systems: Worked on several facets of the ChartMaxx product:
  • Developed requirements to interface the ChartMaxx application with the Intermountain Health Care System using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Developed reporting and data standardization to harmonize with the American Hospital Associations’ RACTrac reporting system.
  • Provided requirements to support electronic submission of Medical Documentation (esMD) to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs)
  • Conducted Gap Analyses for Meaningful Use Stage 1 (HITECH Rule)
Business Process Management
  • Developed requirements for workflows that integrate with ChartMaxx using a third party Business Process Manager (Appian)