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James Brown, BA, CNE
Information Systems Director
Health Systems Management Network
| Education: |
BA, Business Administration, Eastern
New Mexico University. Mr. Brown’s formal education includes
a Management and Accounting curriculum in the New Mexico
system, computer science and healthcare administration
with several universities including MIT, University of
Massachusetts, Westfield State College and numerous independently
sponsored courses and seminars. His articles on the application
of computer technology to business have appeared in several
publications, and he has been invited to speak at several
conferences. His experience in the health care industry
includes four (4) years in direct patient care as a U.S.
Navy Hospital Corpsman and over 20 years working with
Hospitals and private practices. |
| Experience: |
Mr. Brown has over twenty (20) years
working with a variety of information systems from large
IBM mainframes to PCs, including wide and local area network
systems. In the fifteen (15) plus years he has been working
with HSMN, his experience includes most major hospital
and departmental systems currently in use (and a few that
are obsolete). Mr. Brown has worked with systems from
SMS, HBOC, BAXTER, CERNER, IDX, MEDITECH, SAINT, HEALTHQUEST,
and SUNQUEST to name a few.
He has worked as a programmer, systems analyst, software
development project leader, and implementation specialist.
Recent projects include development and implementation
of an on-line clinical documentation system with electronic
signature for a major academic medical center; design
of a client/server system for an automated Clinical Summary
List (Expanded Problem List) for a major academic medical
center; resolving major technical, procedural and data
anomalies with Patient Financial Services, which were
resulting in several million dollars of third-party denials
and rejections annually; a complete examination and categorization
of all clinical data collected by a large East Coast Hospital;
providing the roadmap for eliminating data redundancies
and the foundation for an electronic patient record. |
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