Senior Business Consultant - KP HealthConnect at Kaiser Permanente Information Technology
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Business Consultant - KP HealthConnect at Kaiser Permanente Information Technology
San Francisco Bay Area
Web 2.0 Medical Informatics Specialist; collaborate with software engineering and user interface design teams in developing Web-based applications integrating healthcare information for consumers, patients and medical professionals. Build, configuration and implementation of Clinical EHR's database applications.
Data mapping for interoperability and interfaces
EpicCare Ambulatory Certified
Project Management Institute (PMP) Certified
California Laboratory Science License (CLS)Healthcare informatics standards (SNOMED, LOINC, ICD, CPT, HL7); Content and interface integration to standards, Database development for Healthcare EMR and Laboratory systems; Clinical Laboratory Scientist; Research in Public Health and Bioscience
(Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)
May 2009 — Present (3 months)
Build EpicCare masterfiles national level for Kaiser Permanente KP HealthConnect EHR; Evaluate and implement Regional requests for additions and updates to database; Responsible for mapping medical terms to SNOMED and LOINC database; Develop documentation of guidelines and naming conventions for procedure and result modules; Responsible for on going support and review of data quality at national level;
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
Clinical information modeling (i.e., clinical observations, referrals, exams, procedures, medications) with alignment to standards (LOINC, Snomed CT, CDA, CCD, RxNorm, HL7 RIM, NCPDP, SPL
Provide terminology expertise in mapping between vendor source terminologies or mapping non-standards based terminology to well recognized national standards
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
June 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Healthline Networks offers an innovative approach to meeting the needs of today's health information seeker. The company's unique consumer healthcare taxonomy, created in 1999 in collaboration with 1,100 medical specialists, powers a suite of intelligent health search, navigation and content services. Combining advanced search technology with deep medical expertise, Healthline and its business partners - a network of trusted destination sites that include publishers, portals, search engines, employers and health plans - help consumers navigate the complex world of healthcare information, empowering them to make more confident, informed decisions. Headquartered in San Francisco, Healthline is backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Reed Elsevier Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and JHK Investments, LLC.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Build and Implementation of EpicSystems EMR software for Stanford Hospitals and Clinics in Palo Alto, Redwood City
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Implementation of KP HealthConnect EpicSystems Ambulatory EMR in large, high patient volume clnics, Worked with Regional Medical Legal Departments to ensure compliance and quality standards. Lead post go-live support team with 11 direct reports
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1992 — 2005 (13 years)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2000 — April 2004 (4 years 1 month)
Modeling national terminology to informatic standards for Kaiser clinical information systems.
Joint development with IBM CIS and Epic Systems implementation teams for Kaiser national EMR
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
MPH , Public Health - Biomedical Science , 1981 — 1983
AB , Physiology/Anatomy , 1976 — 1980
Coauthor of Publication for Canadian Journal of Microbiology
Laboratory Assistant at Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory and Department of Nutritional Sciences
Medically directed search engine optimization Medical informatics standards coding: SNOMED, LOINC, ICD, CPT Natural language processing, Semantic Web
California Alumni Association - UC Berkeley, Karatedo Doshinkan International http://www.doshinkan.com/, Board Member, Cal Alumni Association Santa Clara, Northern California Association of Microbiologists, AMIA, Women 2.0
Publications: Canadian Journal of Microbiology,
Honor Society University of California, Berkeley