Sherry Speer

Experience

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  OhioHealth

  Oct 1998 - Sept 2008

  Responsible for overall operations of clinical applications at a large, multi-hospital healthcare organization. Managed 14 employees, and supported them in maintaining and implementing applications for patient registration, medical records, patient accounting, physician order entry, clinical documentation, clinician order entry, electronic ICU, dietary, and records imaging. Responsibilities included being accountable for 24 x 7 operation of McKesson hospital information system (Star) and clinical information system (Horizon Clinicals) and assorted ancillary systems (CBORD, Provation, eICU) across a large multi-facility healthcare organization with four hospitals and multiple ambulatory sites. Coordinated system upgrades, migrations, patch installations, and general system maintenance within department and user communities. Managed staff of professional clinical informatics specialists and analysts to optimize resources for both strategic projects and production support. Managed an operating budget in excess of $5 mil. Show less

  • Manager, Application Support

    Oct 2002 - Sept 2008

  • Team Leader, Clinical Applications

    Aug 1999 - Sept 2002

  • Project Lead, Revenue Cycle Front-End Design Team

    Oct 1998 - Oct 1999
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  Click4Care

  Sept 2008 - Jan 2010

  Project Manager

  Managed multiple client implementations, patch applications, and upgrades of the ThinkHealth product, a software application for Case Management, Disease Management, and Utilization Management, across the Midwest. Served as account executive for several customer accounts. Created Statement of Work documents, Scope of Work documents, budget estimates, project dashboards, status reports, and other documentation needed for new implementations or revisions to original documents. Assisted with development of new company-wide policies/procedures, product documentation, and guidelines for use. Show less

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  Community Health Systems

  Jan 2010 - May 2011

  Project Manager

  Managed multiple hospital implementations of the McKesson Horizon Physician Portal applications while serving as an application analyst at more complex sites. Worked alongside the vendor, and directly with physicians, hospital administration, and educators. Created project plans, escalation documents, assessment documents, project dashboards, status reports, and other documentation needed for new implementations or revisions to original documents. Assisted with development of new company-wide standards, product documentation, and guidelines for use. Show less

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  Vertek Solutions, Inc.

  Jan 2010 - May 2011

  Project Manager

  Served as a contract project coordinator at Community Health Systems, a 122+ hospital health system throughout the United States. Key projects include the implementation of the McKesson HPP application as part of a larger multi-system deployment program. Managed a team of analysts who served as the primary resources at each hospital facility. Provided support both remotely and on-site as needed.

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  ISymmetry

  May 2011 - Mar 2013

  Project Manager

  Subcontracted to McKesson as a Senior Clinical Program Manager within the Horizon Clinicals and Physician and Ancillary Services solutions groups. Works with multiple hospital systems, both single facility and multi-facility, to implement physician order entry, health summary, medication reconciliation, and connect to exchange information with other facilites as needed to meet Meaningful Use guidelines. Works with the hospitals to plan their clinical implementations and upgrades to meet deadlines for meaningful use objectives and data collection. Assists with resource planning, budgeting, forecasting, troubleshooting, communication and serves as a liasion to the McKesson education, support, executive, and sales teams. Show less

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  McKesson Provider Technologies including

  May 2011 - Mar 2013

  Clinical Program Manager

  Provided project management for Horizon clinical applications including expert orders, emergency care, care alerts, health summary, connect, patient list, and upgrades. Assisted account executive with preparing customer portfolio of projects, setting project dependencies, managing customer expectations and preparing for executive meetings. Planned for work needed to meet Meaningful Use requirements and assists customers in meeting those requirements. Worked with both support and development to implement necessary fixes and customizations for application optimization and desired functionality. Show less

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  Expert Technical Advisors/Avanti Hospitals

  Apr 2013 - Apr 2013

  Revenue Cycle Consultant

  Analyzed processes in the HIM departments at Avanti Hospitals including those affecting the workflow related to charts, deficiencies, and incomplete records. Worked with the Business Office to determine gaps in in the processes and problems related to billing, chart completion, and denials. Recommended the hiring of an analyst to further streamline existing work queues and resolve problems with files. This was a short-term assignment.

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  Roswell Park Cancer Institute

  May 2013 - Oct 2013

  ICD-10 Project/Program Manager

  Consultant through Kforce Healthcare Solutions. Responsible for leading the Business Process and Cash Flow, and payor Plan portions of the ICD-10 implementations. Worked with subject matter experts at the hospital organization and within the company to identify and measure key performance indicators that should be monitored and trended with the transition to ICD-10. Assisted with identification of policy/procedure gaps that could be important with the implementation from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Assessed both vendor and hospital department/physician practice readiness for the transition. Assisted healthcare organization prepare for the implementation of ICD10 including gap analysis, testing needs, application impact, resource needs, training, and planning. Show less

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  Vanguard Health Systems - Chicago Market/Tenet Healthcare

  Oct 2013 - Aug 2014

  ICD-10 Program Manager

  Sr. Consultant through Leidos Health. Responsible for the transition to ICD-10 in the four Vanguard/Tenet hospitals in the Chicago market. Coordinated and managed all aspects of the program for those hospitals - reimbursement, HIM, training and education, IT, clinical informatics, and reporting. Worked with other Tenet markets to standardize plans and approach.

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  St. Joseph's Healthcare System

  Oct 2014 - Jun 2015

  ICD-10 Project Director

  Sr. Consultant through Leidos Health. My responsibilities included managing the ICD-10 program for three workstreams and coordinating all efforts for readiness including IT, HIM, revenue cycle, training and education, communications, and physician preparedness.

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  Nationwide Childrens Hospital / RDorsey

  Jun 2015 - Jan 2016

  Sr. Project Manager

  Consultant through RDorsey +. Managed the hospital transition to ICD-10 including overseeing test script development, testing, application readiness and risks. Prepared communications for executives. Worked closely with HIM, IT and other disciplines. Assisted with management of Epic environmental strategy with regard to ICD-10 needs.Also responsible for project management of various Clinical Applications projects including server migrations, upgrades, cabling renovations, and interface design, testing and implementation. Show less

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  3M Health Information Systems

  May 2016 - Apr 2024

  • Sr. Engagement Manager

    May 2021 - Apr 2024

  • Engagement Manager

    May 2016 - May 2021
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  Solventum

  Apr 2024 - now

  • Strategic Engagement Manager

    Nov 2024 - now

  • Sr Engagement Manager

    Apr 2024 - Nov 2024