Scott Coplan

Current

• Faculty, School of Medicine at University of Washington
• President and CEO at COPLAN AND COMPANY

Past

• Senior Manager at Touche Ross
• Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton
• Student at Beloit College

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Education

• University of Washington
• Beloit College

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Scott Coplan’s Summary

Scott is a project manager, as well as an educator, author and speaker in the field of project management best practices. He is the founder and president of COPLAN AND COMPANY, an Information Technology (IT) acquisition project and change management firm with offices in Seattle and Louisiana. Scott focuses on IT acquisition projects and FOUR, an IT acquisition tool developed and licensed by COPLAN AND COMPANY.

Scott has 30 years experience providing IT project management services involving planning, definition, acquisition and implementation. Scott’s project management success includes transferring a consistent approach for developing and managing projects that achieves strategic organizational objectives. Formerly with Touche Ross, Booz Allen and Hamilton, and Battelle Memorial Institute, Scott holds an MPA from the University of Washington and a BA from Beloit College. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and Certified Professional in Healthcare and Management Information Systems (CPHIMS), he is also a member of the IEEE Computer Society, Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), HIMSS Enterprise IS Steering Committee and Project Management Institute. Scott also holds a faculty position at the University of Washington School of Medicine where he teaches project and change management for health care information technology.

Scott Coplan’s Specialties:

Project and change management for health care, justice and financial systems.

Scott Coplan’s Experience

• Faculty, School of Medicine

  University of Washington

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years )

  Teach Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) Project Management

• President and CEO

  COPLAN AND COMPANY

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1991 — Present (18 years 10 months)

  Information technology project and change management for health care, justice and financial systems

• Senior Manager

  Touche Ross

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Accounting industry)

  1983 — 1991 (8 years )

  Project Management for information systems projects. Selected examples include:
  
  1. Implemented the University Bookstore's inventory and point of sale system.
  2. Implemented a order entry system for a wholesale notions distributor.
  3. Planned the integrated criminal justice information system for Los Angeles County, CA
  4. Planned the replacement project for the integrated criminal justice information system for Santa Clara County, CA
  5. Assisted Sacred Heart Hospital, Eugene, OR in the acquisition of TotalCare HMO and the procurement of a new claims management system.
  6. Built an HMO for Milwaukee, WI Children's Hospital including marketing, IS, plan optons, administrative structure and application for business with the state insurance commissioner.

• Senior Consultant

  Booz Allen Hamilton

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; BAH; Management Consulting industry)

  1980 — 1982 (2 years )

• Student

  Beloit College

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1972 — 1976 (4 years )

Scott Coplan’s Education

• University of Washington

  Master of Public Administration , Statistcis , 1977 — 1979

• Beloit College

  1972 — 1976

Additional Information

Scott Coplan’s Interests:

COPLAN AND COMPANY, an IT consulting firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington provides comprehensive project management services to clients throughout the United States. Founded in 1991 by Scott Coplan, we quickly established a reputation for integrity, thoroughness and success in completing IT projects. To ensure success, we organize each project by defining a work plan to stay within budget and schedule, reduce risks and achieve our clients' goals. At COPLAN AND COMPANY, Quality Management (QM) is our focus. This means providing project management services that include preparing project standards and conducting Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), and Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) to execute and control projects according to industry standards. Our project management services support all phases of IT projects, including: project planning, requirements definition, system acquisition and implementation services.

Scott Coplan’s Groups:

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP),

Certified Professional in Healthcare Information Systems (CPHIMS)

Member, Project Management institute (PMI)

Member, PMI Healthcare Project Management Special Interest Group,

Member, Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS),

Member, HIMSS Speakers’ Bureau and

Member, IEEE Computer Society.

•    Project Management Link - www.pmlink.org
•    Healthcare-IT/ EHR/ HIS
•    Deloitte Leaders
•    Health Informatics Technology (HIT)
•    University of Washington Alumni Group
•    Health Care Quality Improvement & Management
•    IEEE Computer Society Members
•    Deerfield High School Alumni
•    Healthcare Management Engineers (HME)
•    Booz Allen Hamilton Alumni Network
•    Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA)
•    Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
•    HealthCare Information Technology
•    Professional Public Service: MPA-MPP Degrees
•    Beloit College Alumni
•    EMEA e-Health and Health Informatics professionals
•    HIT Change Management
•    University of Washington Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics
•    HIMSS Washington Chapter

Scott Coplan’s Honors:

The Rapid Acquisition Decision (RAD) RFP, Project Management Institute North American Global Conference, Atlanta, GA, Forthcoming in October 2007,

How to Win the Prize of Project Success: Know Your Stakeholders, Project Management Institute North American Global Conference, Seattle, WA, 2006,

Co-Instructor, “Project Management and System Analysis for Health Informatics,” University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, Master of Science in Clinical Informatics & Patient-Centered Technology (CIPCT), WA, 2006-2007,

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