Steve DeViney

Experience

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  Cerner Corporation

  Jan 1989 - Jan 2004

  Led turnaround of $10M, 30+ person healthcare IT consulting practice providing implementation and consulting services to provider clients across Canada. Built and led team of Project Executives, Project Managers, Consulting Architects, Technical Practice Directors, and Clinical SMEs supporting complex, multi-year, multi-site, enterprise-wide EHR and clinical information system projects. Full P&L responsibility for professional services delivery, support for pre-sales and add-on sales, project scope definition and estimation, delivery, and customer success of all projects.• Successfully resolved long-delayed software enhancement required for Canada market avoiding $100K monthly penalty• Successfully resolved an inherited set of performance issues with major Health Services Authority ensuring success of project, ongoing progress toward subsequent project phases, and gains in client satisfaction• Achieved highest blended rate per hour, highest A/R collection percentage, and largest increase in client satisfaction performance across all company consulting practices for 2013 year• Successfully completed 2-year turnaround assignment by resolving 6 projects previously inherited that had been in a write-off state while increasing annual professional services revenue by more than 35% Show less Responsible for support of new professional services and consulting sales and establishment of initial 50+ person healthcare IT consulting practice in Europe, including business partner relationships and customer success. Team formed the foundation for subsequent growth to a 500+ person professional services practice for Europe.• Served as member of leadership team that rebuilt company’s direct presence in Europe from the ground up following the expiration of prior business partnership agreement. • Cultivated new business relationships with multiple clients and business partner firms and provided executive engagement management for all projects in Europe.• Directly led as well as provided virtual leadership of multinational teams in delivery of interoperable healthcare IT solutions including the first installations of company's enterprise-wide clinical information systems in Austria, Germany, UK, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. Show less Reporting directly to the COO, was responsible for Merger and Acquisition due diligence, contract negotiation, M&A activity and integration of 18 healthcare IT system clients from a former business partner McDonnell Douglas Health Systems Group.• Transformed what was originally conceived as a potential purchase of this business from MDHSG into a revenue generating transaction to take over responsibility for these clients.• M&A completed with no sales cost with one-time revenues of $2.1M+, a contribution by MDHSG of more than $1.5M in hardware, a recurring annual support revenue stream of $2M+ per year, and subsequent add-on software and services sales.• Received President's Award and stock bonus for successful conclusion of all M&A activity Show less

  • International Practice Director (Canada)

    Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  • International Practice Director (EMEA)

    Jan 1998 - Jan 2002

  • Director Consulting Services Solutions Group

    Jan 1996 - Jan 1998

  • Senior Project Executive (Health Midwest)

    Jan 1995 - Jan 1996

  • Project Executive Merger & Acquisition (MegaSource)

    Jan 1994 - Jan 1995

  • Project Executive (Integris Health)

    Jan 1992 - Jan 1994

  • Manager Client Management Services Group

    Jan 1991 - Jan 1992

  • Manager Merger & Acquistion (MDHSG)

    Jan 1989 - Jan 1991
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  IBM Global Services (Healthlink Division)

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

  Vice President & Service Line Executive

  Led consulting and professional services practices providing skilled healthcare IT and clinical resources, advisory and executive engagement management expertise to lead or supplement project teams engaged in delivery of vendor EHR solutions to Hospital and healthcare system clients in domestic and international markets. Company recognized multiple times by KLAS as #1 ranked firm in staff augmentation and was subsequently acquired by IBM Global Services to form the core of a new Provider Practice. Show less

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  Health Language, Inc.

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2010

  Led development and growth of professional services practice from a cost center to a revenue and profit contributor. The practice provided clinical content, mapping, technical consulting, and interoperability integration services for the Language Engine Terminology Server middleware, clinical and administrative content, content management toolkit, SaaS, API and Web Services based solutions. Worldwide responsibility for pre-sales discovery and services consultation, estimation and contract negotiation, project planning and delivery, engagement management, client services support, customer success, and growth of business partner relationships with vendors, integrators, hospitals and health system provider and payer organizations.• Led successful transformation and growth of professional & client services team from a cost center to a revenue and profit contributor leading to the company subsequently being acquired for greater than a 3x annual revenue multiple Show less Board Member of Health Language UK, Ltd, the global subsidiary responsible for sales and delivery of software, customer success, content and services to the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) market. Clients and business partners were located in numerous countries and included SNOMED International (IHTSDO) in Denmark, the UK and Scotland National Health Services, CSC, iSOFT, British Telecom, Fujitsu, Max Manus in Norway, Microsoft, InterSystems, Philips Speech Recognition in Austria, and many others. Amongst many accomplishments:• Successfully closed £7M multi-year agreement with prime contractor to UK National Health Service• Successfully demonstrated full service delivery of a complex project resolving a prior multi-year dispute resulting in the full recovery of £1.2M of revenue previously written-off, plus interest• Transformed and mentored technical consultant team to become a substantial revenue and profit contributor, as well as value-added differentiator for Health Language software and services solutions Show less

  • Vice President Professional Services

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2010

  • Director HLI UK, Ltd

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2010
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  College of American Pathologists

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

  Managing Director Professional Services

  Member of senior leadership team focused on the growth of CAP Professional & Client Services practice by expanding working relationships with vendors, integrators, consulting firms, hospital and health system provider organizations and business partners. CAP PS provides education, consulting and professional services in the development of Information Strategy Design, Content Management, Modeling and Mapping, Terminology Integration and Use Case design for both standard and localized content. A key mission of the professional services group was to help establish and promote standards which enable semantic interoperability, analytics and business intelligence supporting the adoption of integrated Electronic Health Records and Health Information Exchange solutions.• Negotiated agreement with The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) to provide a customized cancer checklist solution for trial in the 5 Australasia countries• Negotiated partner agreement with major Lab Information System vendor in U.S. to provide LOINC mapping services to their client base• Engaged partnering discussions with U.S. software vendor leading to the successful develop of eFRM (electronic Forms and Reporting Module), a web-based solution for hospitals and cancer registries to document and report cancer cases utilizing the eCC (electronic Cancer Checklists) standard Show less

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  Experis

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2016

  Director Healthcare Consulting Services

  Member of senior leadership team responsible for building, leading and managing the Experis Healthcare Practice across the Health Industries vertical delivering professional resourcing and specialized IT solutions to Provider, Payer and Academic sectors. Responsibilities included business development, resource management, profitability, client relationship management, and services strategy and delivery.The Healthcare Practice, a $95M business unit with operations in over 80 offices across North America and Canada, delivers professional services, client services support, resourcing and solutions to healthcare clients which leverage the expertise of the entire Experis organization. Practice achievements included:• Extending Experis Solutions and Services beyond an HIT focus, into Revenue Cycle, Payer/Provider relationships, process improvement, knowledge and information exchange segments.• Recognition as a Top Performing business unit within Experis Solutions consistently year-over-year, and receiving Top Practice award at 2014 annual CEO summit.• Delivering top contribution margin and highest consultant/revenue mix each year from 2011 through 2015.• Creation of 6 value-add service lines to drive the overall growth of the healthcare business. Show less

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  10.10.10

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2018

  Prospective CEO Working Group

  I help identify Prospective CEOs and partner organizations, as well as support program delivery for 10.10.10, a disruptive platform first launched in the healthcare vertical, with expansion plans both geographically and across multiple verticals (education, infrastructure, water, energy, etc.). The 10.10.10 program takes 10 vetted Prospective CEOs, presents them with 10 Wicked Problems within a particular vertical, surrounds them with deep domain experts and gives them 10 days to develop a concept for a market-based solution to one or more of the Wicked Problems.The goal is for one or more of the Prospective CEO to decide to make their next big investment in creating a company to develop a new product or service that can change the world by addressing one of the 10 Wicked Problems. Show less

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  Executive Business Advisors

  Jan 2016 - now

  Managing Director

  Serving as a trusted business advisor to healthcare information technology businesses, I provide consultative guidance, networking connections, strategy and business development ideas, introductions and operational recommendations. I provide mentoring and assistance to organizations and businesses, while serving as an independent sounding board and advisor to digital health organizations, business partners, executives and other professional contacts. I am also an active "connector" introducing executives, experienced professionals, and companies to opportunities and to other professionals engaged in the development of Digital Health solutions which leverage technology to transform healthcare management and delivery to improve outcomes, while reducing costs and inefficiencies. Show less

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  Prime Health

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2021

  Digital Challenge Evaluation Committee & Mentor

  The Prime Health Challenge supports early stage Digital Health Startups in developing transformative solutions to improve the quality and efficiency of care delivery. Winning companies are paired up with a Colorado host institution to implement a pilot test of their product. The top companies selected receive funds provided by the Colorado Health Foundation to offset the costs of the pilot study. Finalists are given an opportunity to pitch their product in a city wide “shark tank” style event to a live audience as well as representatives from host institutions interested in pairing with the finalists.Qualifying companies must meet the following criteria:1. Early Stage Digital Health or Health Tech Startup2. Product is in Beta Stage (later stage products also accepted)3. Willing to work with a Colorado based host institution Show less

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  Tela

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  Advisor

  Tela integrates research-grade patient-generated health data for cancer patients into clinical care and research. The Tela mission is to unlock insights into the patient experience during their cancer care to improve quality of life and outcomes, enhance the way providers engage with their patients, and advance cancer research. The Tela app is a free tool for any patient to use to to track their progress during their cancer treatment. Patients own their self-generated health data and are able to share it via a PDF report with healthcare providers. Show less

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  Boomtown Accelerators

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2021

  Mentor Boomtown HealthTech

  Boomtown is both an investor and provider of expertise to accelerate the development of early stage startup companies. Mentors within the HealthTech community provide consultative guidance and mentoring to early-stage healthcare IT firms engaged in developing solutions to solve the many Wicked Problems in healthcare.

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  Cloud Privacy Labs

  Jan 2018 - now

  Advisor

  The Cloud Privacy Labs ConsentGrid™ solution takes consent management a step further by putting consent into action to manage data flow. ConsentGrid provides the back-end SaaS platform allowing you to create consent models, capture consent, and fully integrate consent into all aspects of your data use.ConsentGrid™ uses patent pending SmartConsent™ technology that governs data flow based on user preferences. Depending on their specific needs, organizations can apply important criteria such as in-house policies or legal requirements, and combine these with user consent to control data exchange in real-time. SmartConsent™ is data agnostic: it works with existing data exchange standards, or it can be integrated with internal business entities to control data flow. Show less