Rod Gamble, Information Technology and Services

Hi, I'm Rod Gamble, the EMR Project Guru, Welcome to my profile.

Rod Gamble's Bio:

Rod Gamble is a seasoned Healthcare IT Program and Project leader. He has come up through the ranks from RN to analyst to software engineer and finally program and project management. Rod's biggest contributions have come through Program Management roles where his many years of experience shortens timelines and improves outcomes. Program Management Rod has proven success in for-profit and non-profit large scale programs spanning multiple facilities, multiple markets, and all acuities. Enterprise Project Leadership Rod's management style multiplies the skills of his team, allowing members to shine and contribute fully. This approach is infectious and creates an atmosphere that draws out and develops individual excellence. Project Planning & Management Rod has many years of experience planning and running healthcare IT projects. He applies enough formal project management discipline to meet each program's unique needs, creating structure to support the team without binding it to arbitrary rigor. Meaningful Use This set of complex regulatory requirements have compressed the timelines and specific outputs of Rod's work for the last few years. Familiarity and expertise has naturally followed. Change Management Rod is an agent of change who uses his unique role as a temporary program manager to bring healthy change to organizations. Specialties: Program Management, Project Management, CPOE, Clinical Documentation, Cerner, IView, PowerForms, CCL, Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Go Lives, Training, End User Support, PMP, FirstNet, Scope, Scope Management, Change Control, Superior interpersonal and communication skills, Coaching, Training, End User Training, Super User Training, Trainer the Trainer, Lead Team, Cost Performance, Schedule Performance, Quality Control, Testing, Stress Testing, Integration Testing

Rod Gamble's Experience:

Population Health Program Manager at Northern Arizona Healthcare
February 2015 - April 2015
Initiation and Program design of NAH Population Health initiative. This includes various applications on the HealtheIntent (R) platform from Cerner (R). HealtheIntent is a multi-purpose, programmable platform designed to scale at a population level while facilitating health and care at a person and provider level. HealtheIntent is a cloud-based data aggregation and normalization platform used to gather data from disparate Northern Arizona health records. Healthe Registries (C) aggregates data across multiple disparate Northern Arizona sources and normalizes the data, enabling advanced decision support, predictive algorithms, population identification and advanced analytics. Healthe Life (C) will be used to promote patient wellness through patient engagement, remote monitoring, and portal integration. Healthe Analytics (R) will provide meaningful data on performance management, programmable scorecards, and decision support. HealtheCare (R) will be used for case management, telehealth, medical management, and readmissions . Healthe Intent (R), Cerner (R) Interoperability tools, and a Healthcare Information Exchange will be used to power a Community EHR. These are exciting changes for the community of Flagstaff and Northern Arizona in general.
Program Manager, Organizational Change Management at Catholic Health Initiatives
September 2013 - November 2014
Responsible for managing clinical change caused by the Electronic Medical Record for the Kentucky implementation from the Program level. Directed a team of twelve healthcare IT clinicians to facilitate rapid transition to national standards established by Catholic Healthcare Initiative corporate leadership. Under my direction my team was able to rapidly and proactively identify and resolve dozens of high-priority project and program level issues to resolve patient safety concerns, regulatory compliance problems, and ensure smooth reimbursement.
Practice Director at HCTec
June 2013 - September 2013
Responsible for establishing standards of consulting practice at all levels from activation resources to analysts and project managers. Responsible for creation of HCTec project artifacts, process assets, internal processes, and client-facing processes. Responsible for project and program management expertise during sales cycle.
Program Manager at CHOC
August 2011 - May 2013
As a Program Manager at premier children's hospital in Orange, California, led all technological efforts related to adding four major services from scratch in a new, half million square foot facility. New services at this facility included Laboratory, Radiology, Surgery, invasive Cardiology, non-invasive cardiology, and Emergency services. Software responsibilities included installation and configuration of Cerner Electronic Medical Record components: RadNet (R), PathNet(R), SurgiNet(R), FirstNet(R), and Capacity Management. PACS installations for included Fuji for Radiology and Siemens for Cardiology. Blood bank installation included both Cerner components and a separate donor system. Telephony responsibilities included a new PBX switch, ASCOM phones and DECT antennas, pager system and DAS to support cellular signal saturation throughout the new facility. Hardware responsibilities included deployments and configuration of computers, computers on wheels, printers, scanners, and peripherals including Cerner's new iBus technology. Low voltage responsibilities included a nurse call system and remote temperature monitoring systems. Significant program management responsibilities included mentoring, staffing, budgeting for hardware, vendors, and services, leading a team of seven project managers, procurement planning and execution, and biweekly reporting to the organization's executive leadership. Instituted customized reporting methodology to provide transparent issue management to the entire enterprise.
CPOE Program Manager at CHS
October 2010 - July 2011
Managed the design, upgrade, testing, and implementation of McKesson Horizon Expert Orders, Keane IMed Optimum, and HMS solutions for CPOE. The purpose of the program was timely compliance with ARRA requirements for Meaningful Use. Created and maintained project plans and related Project Web Access sites to support project execution. Managed teams as they executed my projects plans. Created template project plans using organizational process assets to mentor and support other project managers. Created template SharePoint sites to support inter-project dependencies and program management needs. Introduced increased project management rigor to support monitoring and controlling via earned value concepts of Cost Performance Index (CPI), Schedule Performance Index (SPI), and Actual Cost (AC). Mentored and instructed project managers and analysts to improve overall team's capabilities. Managed and controlled the creation of reference domains and content for copying downstream to 128 facilities. Reference domains created for the strategic purpose of facilitating widespread compliance with Meaningful Use and other state and local regulations. CPOE program included intrinsic components designed to increase CPOE adoption rates and ease implementation complexities such as usability testing, acceptance testing, and parallel testing by providers. These tests were designed to sharpen system usability in advance of presentation to Medical Executive Committees at individual hospitals. Reviewed and critiqued vendor-agnostic clinical content for appropriateness and advised on content management strategy.
Project Manager at HPG
February 2008 - September 2010
As a Project Manager at a Regional Medical Center, led the design, upgrade, testing, and implementation of Cerner Millennium(R) solutions including PowerChart, PharmNet, RadNet, IView, PowerForms, PowerOrders, Medical Records Publishing, CareSets, FirstNet, EMAR, and Rx Station. Led executive management and team leaders beyond Cerner's MethodM implementation approach to fully define a project plan that addressed all organizational needs. Developed and executed project plan that included infrastructure upgrade plan, education plan, and communication plan while managing Cerner resources to execute the Accelerated Solutions Center approach selected by the client. Led executive leadership through Computerized Provider Order Entry vision, planning, and scope development while implementing clinical documentation. Adjusted tactical and strategic direction to conform to Meaningful Use requirements, enabling application for stimulus monies made available in ARRA via HITECH. Collaborated with physician executives and physician community to adjust workflow to electronic medical record format while still meeting real-world needs.
Senior Consultant at Vitalize Consulting
April 2007 - February 2009
As a consultant at a large North Carolina-based healthcare conglomerate, led the design and build of complete solutions for Wound Management, Neonatal ICU, Pediatric ICU, and ECMO teams. Led complex project to redesign nursing positions for existing and future facilities, including flagship 900-bed facility. Designed, built, and maintained multi-facility interdisciplinary clinical documentation solutions including PowerForms, custom flowsheets, and Interactive View (INet) in Cerner's Millennium Electronic Medical Record. Maintained and updated Event Set Hierarchy regularly and conducted classes to train client resources in all of these activities. Coordinated continuity of documentation between FirstNet, PowerChart, and PowerChart Office.
Senior Consultant at Carolinas HealthCare System
April 2007 - November 2008
As a consultant at a large North Carolina-based healthcare conglomerate, led the design and build of complete solutions for Wound Management, Neonatal ICU, Pediatric ICU, and ECMO teams. Led complex project to redesign nursing positions for existing and future facilities, including flagship 900-bed facility. Designed, built, and maintained multi-facility interdisciplinary clinical documentation solutions including PowerForms, custom flowsheets, and Interactive View (INet) in Cerner's Millennium Electronic Medical Record. Maintained and updated Event Set Hierarchy regularly and conducted classes to train client resources in all of these activities. Coordinated continuity of documentation between FirstNet, PowerChart, and PowerChart Office.
Senior Analyst, PM at St. Vincent Hospital
September 2006 - May 2007
As a Systems Analyst at a regional hospital, orchestrated transition of enterprise surgical applications to Citrix environment and assisted in redesign of surgical supply chain, led upgrade and interface redesign of enterprise-wide dietary application, designed clinical processes and technical solutions to implement iterative upgrades to NextGen EMR & EPM software at multiple ambulatory clinics, designed, implemented, and maintained help ticket system for project management and reviewed and contributed to Cerner scope and contract negotiations
Automation Engineer at Intel Corporation
2006 - 2006
? As an Automation Engineer at a computer company, designed and implemented custom software solutions, optimized existing process in use worldwide for end of wafer processing, changing growth rate from O(n2) to O(n), authored technical papers for the purpose of documenting previously undocumented existing functionality and to design and drive new processes, led cross-organizational teams to design and implement custom solutions to pressing business needs in a timely fashion and in some cases, served solely as project lead, administered and built physical and virtual Solaris and Linux servers, supported mission critical applications around the clock during on-call weeks
Analyst at Cerner
2003 - 2004
As a Senior Analyst, Consultant for a healthcare software vendor, assisted clients with complex on-site implementations of custom software packages, analyzed and redesigned computer-aided clinical processes surrounding patient care, including current state analysis, future state analysis, gap analysis, planning for system implementation and providing post-implementation support, assisted clients in developing software using software development kit for the J2EE platform, including use-case development, needs analysis, specification authoring, and implementation assistance in a Web-Sphere environment
Currently available for Project Director, Program Manager, CIO, PM at EMR Project Guru
February 2009
Available to manage your complex programs and projects, get a PMO off the ground, or serve as a temporary director. Willing to travel weekly; easy access to flights from Albuquerque. Prefer corp to corp (1099) but would consider full time for the right opportunities.

Rod Gamble's Education:

California State University-Fullerton
2000 – 2003
MS
Auburn University
1995 – 1998
BSN
Concentration: Nursing

Rod Gamble

Health Care IT Program and Project Manager | Information Technology and Services

Hi, I'm Rod Gamble, the EMR Project Guru, Welcome to my profile.

Rod Gamble's Bio:

Rod Gamble's Experience:

Population Health Program Manager at Northern Arizona Healthcare

Program Manager, Organizational Change Management at Catholic Health Initiatives

Practice Director at HCTec

Program Manager at CHOC

CPOE Program Manager at CHS

Project Manager at HPG

Senior Consultant at Vitalize Consulting

Senior Consultant at Carolinas HealthCare System

Senior Analyst, PM at St. Vincent Hospital

Automation Engineer at Intel Corporation

Analyst at Cerner

Currently available for Project Director, Program Manager, CIO, PM at EMR Project Guru

Rod Gamble's Education:

California State University-Fullerton

Auburn University