| Richard Ouellette,
FACHE CLSSMBB MT(ASCP)H - CEO/President |
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Mr. Ouellette
has more than 25 years of progressive hands-on
operations hospital and independent laboratory
management experience. He holds a Bachelors degree
(cum laude) from the University of Southern Maine
and a Masters degree in healthcare management from
the University of Missouri Columbia. He is a fellow
in the American College of Healthcare Executives, a
Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and is a
certified Medical Technologist with the American
Society of Clinical Pathologist. He is an Adjunct
Professor for Healthcare Finance and Information
Systems at Assumption College, Worcester,
Massachusetts.
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His expertise includes: |
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System
Integration & Consolidation |
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Operations
Improvement |
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Decision Support Systems |
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CMS CLIA
Sanction Response Management |
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Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement |
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He has served as the Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer of Clini Tech
Services, Inc., a multi hospital joint venture commercial
laboratory that he was instrumental in starting.
He engineered and architected the MAST (Management
Accountability, Staffing &
Service Tracker) and
QlikLab business intelligence tools and the Lazarus
Data Pump, a universal interface engine.
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June G. Smart,
PhD MBA CLD CLS |
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Dr. Smart
holds a PhD in Organizational and Business
Anthropology from Wayne State University, a Master’s
degree in Business Administration from the
University of Detroit and she received her medical
technology training in Oxford, England at the John
Radcliffe Hospital and Oxford College of Science and
Technology. has over 30 years of
experience serving the healthcare industry, spending the
last six years in healthcare consulting at hospitals and
academic medical centers for Chi Solutions Inc., and
Healthcare Solutions from Roche Diagnostics. |
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Her expertise includes: |
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Laboratory Operations Analysis & Improvement |
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Business
Intelligence & Reporting |
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Information/Knowledge Systems (Decision
Support) |
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Health System Integration
& Consolidation |
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Laboratory Management Improvement |
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Organization
Cultural Assessment |
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Dr. Smart’s consulting experience includes
various market opportunity assessments, readiness
assessments for starting or growing outreach programs.
She also has experience in leadership and cultural
assessments, with associated coaching and guidance. In
addition, she writes articles for the Dark Report on
laboratory related subject matter, and has consulting
experience in the automotive industry. |
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Management Decision
Systems also has contractual relationships with a
number of seasoned experts who share our commitment
to outstanding service.
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L. William Katz,
DBA CMC |
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Dr. Katz is President of
Katz & Associates, Inc., a firm specializing in consulting to healthcare managers on
financial, management and management information issues.
He has more than 30 years of management and financial
consulting experience. His clients include hospitals, medical schools,
medical practice groups, IPAs, PHOs, managed care
organizations, financial institutions, venture capitalist
and governments. Dr. Katz earned his Doctor of Business Administration from the
George Washington University, his MBA from Amos Tuck School
at Dartmouth College and his AB from Dartmouth College.
He is a Certified Management Consultant of the
Institute of Management Consultants. He on the adjunct faculty of the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst eCollege, the University of
Massachusetts-Lowell, and Cambridge College where he teaches
healthcare finance, health policy, and planning and
marketing. |
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His expertise includes: |
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Financial
planning, analysis & feasibility studies |
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Business
restructuring to improve financial performance |
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Medicare,
Medicaid and HIPAA compliance assessment, plan
development, auditing and training |
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Business
planning & evaluation of proposed health care
ventures |
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Strategic
planning and marketing |
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Prior to forming Katz
&
Associates Inc., Dr. Katz was a Director in the Compliance
and Hospital/Physicians Practice of ZA Consulting, LLC.
Previously, he directed the healthcare management and
finance practice of Arthur D. Little, Inc. and managed the
Chicago healthcare consulting practices of Deloitte Haskins
& Sells and Grant Thornton.
Previously, he served in the consulting division of
American Hospital Supply and Medicus Systems Corporations. |
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Rita Battles, MBA |
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Ms Battles is a results oriented healthcare
executive with strong leadership capabilities and a
proven track record of success in turning around
healthcare systems. She brings strong execution
skills in critical entity turnarounds, system
strategy, mergers and acquisitions, provider network
development, multi-hospital post merger integration,
managed care negotiations, strategic partnerships,
and information systems integration. She earned her
MBA from Suffolk University - Sawyer School of
Management. |
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Her expertise includes: |
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Hospital
operations throughout the continuum of care |
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Integrating hospital and physician clinical
data to improve outcomes |
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Technology assessment and implementation;
system development |
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Growth of top line business opportunities
including laboratory and imaging |
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Acquisition valuation and post merger
integration |
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extensive experience includes President and Chief
Executive Officer of Long Island College
Hospital; President of University Campus at
University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical
Center; Chief Operating Officer of Metro West
Medical Center, and Senior Manager in the Health
Care Consulting Practice at Ernst & Young, LLP,
where she focused on leveraging hospital laboratory
and imaging infrastructure to grow revenue and
improve physician relationships.
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Marvin S. Wool, M.D.
MPH |
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Dr. Wood is President of M.Wool
Medical Consultants which since 1997 has
helped a variety of managed care organizations,
integrated delivery systems, hospitals, PHOs and
physician groups achieve shared
medical
management, quality improvement and financial goals.
He earned his M.D. from New York University School
of Medicine, an MPH from Boston University School of
Public Health and an AB (magna cum laude) from
Lafayette
College
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American
College
of Physician Executives and a Fellow of the
American
College
of Physicians. |
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His expertise includes: |
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Medical management performance
measurement |
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Medical
quality outcome measurement and improvement |
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Design of incentive and shared risk programs |
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Creation of physician, hospital, health
insurance partnerships |
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Medicare population management |
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Before founding
his consulting firm, Dr. Wool practiced Internal
Medicine and Endocrinology for 25 years and was a
physician executive for 17 years. At the Lahey
Clinic he was Medical Director of managed care
programs which included both a commercial and
Medicare HMO. At Harvard Pilgrim Health Care he was
medical director for its Joint Ventures and for the
Pilgrim Medicare HMO. |
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Vince T.
Regina |
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Mr. Regina is
the president and founder of
V. T. Regina & Associates
and has been involved in medical
computer systems industry since 1964. He
founded V. T. Regina & Associates in 1981 and this
consulting practice is directed at two major
industries. The first is the healthcare
industry, where he provides expert guidance to
medical institutions in the evaluation and selection
of capital equipment, laboratory and radiology
consolations and clinical information systems.
The second is the high-tech industry, where he
provides management consulting with emphasis in
marketing development and business planning.
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His expertise includes: |
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Enterprise Information System Planning
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Clinical Information Systems |
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Operations Assessment and Improvement |
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Marketing
(Services and Products) |
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Project Planning & Management |
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Prior to starting V. T.
Regina & Associates, Mr. Regina spent 15 years with
Becton Dickinson and Company (BD) as Vice President,
managing their medical systems division. In
this role, he was responsible for the specification,
development, manufacture, sale, installation and
support of clinical products worldwide.
Products included information systems to supported
entire clinical departments, i.e. the laboratory,
pharmacy, radiology and cardiology, as well as
hospital-wide order entry and specific patient
monitoring products for critical care areas (ICU,
CCU, ER, etc.). Mr. Regina has also helped
establish and manage the complete operation of a
clinical reference laboratory that supported pick-up
and delivery services for a four-state area, mail-in
accounts and complete testing support for a 500-bed
hospital. He has also held management
positions in software development for the banking,
pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. |
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