STEVIE M. DAVIDSON, CPHIT
President & Chief Executive Officer

The founder of Health Informatics Consulting, LLC is a seasoned leader in healthcare, quality improvement, and information technology. Her strong management experience combined with her years of consulting to physicians and large healthcare organizations gives her a unique insight into the needs and challenges they face today and in the future. As a successful healthcare management consultant, Stevie has proven expertise in helping healthcare organizations to improve their revenue, business processes, and to adopt electronic health record and practice management solutions. Her breadth of experience in the management of people, process, and delivering quality services which have been proven invaluable to medical practices, hospital systems, and other industry related organizations.

Her qualifications and the key to her success is her method of business analysis for assessing business operations, understanding requirements, and applying best practice and proven solutions to assist with implementing electronic medical record and practice management system applications, and business improvements. Stevie’s career began with ten years in the pharmaceutical industry specializing in marketing, information technology, and software application training. She then held an executive position leading multiple organizations consisting of software development, implementation and deployment, customer service, and quality improvement. Her responsibilities have included international software deployment, training, and customer relationship management. Stevie has written corporate standards and performed internal audits to support quality process compliance, managed project and program management organizations which were responsible for over $25 million in corporate revenue.

Her educational background includes business administration, project management, network infrastructure, technical and healthcare industry related certification training. She is an educational speaker and trainer for medical practices, hospitals, software companies, medical societies, IPAs, industry forums and online physician communities. HIC was founded on the Core Values of healthcare professional advocacy, integrity, trust, and education. Stevie and HIC's mission is to improve the clinical quality and business performance of healthcare practices and organizations through specialized healthcare consulting services.

 

 [span class=doc]Stevie is a Governor appointed member and also Chair of the EHR Implementation Sub-Commitee of the New Jersey State Health Information Technology Commission.  She is also a member of the Ambulatory Meaningful Use Center of Excellence Work Group Committee of HIMSS National.  

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SCOTT R. DAVIDSON, CPHIE
Chief Financial Officer 

Scott is a business and technology consultant for Health Informatics Consulting and also the chief financial officer.

As Executive Director of Product Development at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), he successfully managed the development and introduction of one of the first voice over IP systems. He and his team were recognized for many ground-breaking innovations, some of which have become international standards. 

Scott spent 20 years at Digital Equipment Corporation (now part of Hewlett Packard) where he was a pioneer in the development of networking and client-server products. He held a variety of product line management and technical positions including several international assignments. He was also the corporate representative to the Corporation for Open Systems which developed and promoted interoperability standards for computer networking.

In addition to his role as Chief Operating Officer, Scott also provides business consulting services to the healthcare industry: system selection and implementation, project management, information technology planning, grant assistance, training and much more.

Scott holds a B.S. degree in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He has also done graduate work in technology at WPI and completed management leadership programs at Babson College.   

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BEVERLYJEAN JENKIN, LA, CMM, CPM, CPM-HRS, COM
VP, Healthcare Operations

Beverlyjean (Bev) Jenkin is a practice management and operations consultant with a specialization in human resources and marketing strategies.  She has been involved with healthcare since the 1980’s in various medical specialty fields including pharmaceuticals, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, pain management, and physiatry.  Bev has trained, taught, and proctored students eligible to sit for management certification board examinations. 

Bev has completed credits of coursework in the disciplines of liberal arts, paralegal studies, and marketing.  She has served on the executive boards of several healthcare office management organizations, been a member of the National Association of Female Executives, served on two Chambers of Commerce, served as the President of a hospital Physician Liaison Organization, been a member of a Hospital Business Alliance Organization, and a member of the American Association of Medical Assistants.  Bev is currently a member of the PAHCOM (Professional Association of Heathcare Office Management) and a founder and board member of the NJ Chapter, POMAA (Physician Office Managers Association of America), the AAPC (American Academy of Professional Coders), the NNA (National Notary Association), the NOMAA (National Office Managers of America Association), and the NJMGMA (New Jersey Medical Group Management Association).  She holds certifications as a LA (Paralegal), CMM (Certified Medical Manager), CPM (Certified Practice Manager) and CPM-HRS (Certified Practice Manager - Human Resources Specialist), and COM (Certified Office Management).

 

DEBORAH L. “Debbie” WEINSTEIN, CPA

Debbie is a healthcare practice management executive and Certified Public Accountant with over 20 years of accounting, business consulting and financial management experience. Debbie has spent many years working as an accountant with small to mid-sized accounting firms. She has specialized in delivering business and healthcare consulting services such as accounting, budgeting, system implementation, contract negotiations, financial reporting, HR management, benefits, vendor management, compliance, system administration and marketing.

In addition to serving as a practice administrator for a large surgical specialty practice, Debbie has assisted healthcare organizations with services such as practice mergers, operational assessments, revenue enhancement, benchmarking analysis, PMS and EHR system selection and implementation, regulatory and compliance issues, and interim practice management services.

Debbie's educational background includes a BS in accounting, as well as having obtained her license as a Certified Public Account. She is a member of the Medical Group Management Association.

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TIMOTHY PACEK

Tim brings strong technical computing knowledge as well as experience with customizing and building EHR and PMS systems for maximum usability.  He is a skilled listener and problem solver.  He works effectively with staff to analyze and optimize work processes.  He provides comprehensive documentation and training as required by the client.

He has spent time working in patient registration at Virtua Hospital in Voorhees, New Jersey.  During his time at Virtua, Tim learned that optimizing the efficiency of work processes not only leads to a better experience for the patient but also to a more fulfilling work environment for the employee.

Tim is a graduate of Gettysburg College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy.

LOURDES PLANAS

Lourdes Planas-Marino has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Lourdes brings financial, strategic and operational management expertise to medical groups and hospitals. She has been extremely successful in turning around financially unsound practices and making them profitable.  She utilizes flow charting for process improvement and effective resource utilization, allowing physicians to reduce expenses and increase revenue.  Lourdes has worked with physicians to create compensation formulas that provide incentives to enhance productivity. Her expertise also includes project management for medical office startups including site selection and office design, hiring and training of staff and implementation of Practice Management and EMR software. Lourdes leverages her skills in revenue cycle improvement to evaluate managed care contracts and renegotiate as needed to maximize profitability. 

In 2006, Lourdes was awarded the recognition of Healthcare Leader of the Year in Queens, New York and was also nominated for National Healthcare Administrator of the Year by the Medical Group Management Association.  She completed her pre-medical studies and healthcare administration degree and holds a certification and fellowship from MGMA. She has served as board president on state as well as national healthcare organizations. Lourdes has published articles and conducted presentations to both physicians and administrators on various topics including marketing, finance, billing, coding regulations and EMR software implementation

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ERIC CARR
Senior Consultant

Eric Carr comes from an extensive background in the healthcare industry. Eric has worked at the insurance carrier level to healthcare information systems and the operations of two major integrated groups.

As the former Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Officer of Lifeline Medical Associates, a $40 million-dollar, eighty-provider integrated obstetrics and gynecology group, Eric was accountable for all facets of the operations including billing collection, human resource management and information technology. He has extensive experience with integrated group practices and medical office experience in a healthcare management environment. He has proven ability to organize a healthcare facility and to assist in the growth of an organization. He has outstanding skills in assessing what is needed, recommending sensible solutions, and effectively motivating staff to implement them in a spirit of collaboration.

His education experience is in business administration with various business and technical training and seminars throughout the years. This coupled with the knowledge of the principles and practices of health care administration, fiscal management and managed care reimbursements along with added comprehension of computer systems, programs, applications, and network functions.

Eric is a member of various organizations such as Medical Group Management Associates (MGMA and NJ MGMA), New Jersey Business and Industry Association (NJBIA) and Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). 

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KEVIN MCQUAITE, PMP

Kevin has over 25 years of experience in information technology team and project management.  He has a rich and diversified history of working in software services, manufacturing, education, and healthcare.  He has led teams of professionals and a variety of projects including business process flows, system analysis, user needs analysis, software design and development, customer support and training, and software and hardware implementations.  His many years of experience in all areas of information technology have provided him with a unique combination of skills and knowledge he can use as resources.

As a certified project manager, Kevin has successfully implemented and supported multiple EMR and ERP systems in a variety of environments.  He has worked in positions that have reviewed and met with vendors to help select the appropriate package for companies.  He has developed RFPs and conducted the search and selection of business partners.

He has worked with all levels of corporate and medical professionals, physicians, personnel, and external vendors.  He has hired, developed, and evaluated personnel to create productive teams to achieve all goals and objectives in many companies.  Most recently his endeavors are in the healthcare industry implementing, maintaining, administering, and training personnel on electronic medical record and practice management systems as well as managing a healthcare IT department. 

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MARTI SHADLE, CMA

Marti Shadle has over twenty years of experience in Practice Management. Her education, strong communication skills and membership affiliations have provided numerous opportunities to mentor and provide leadership to other colleagues in her circle of influence. She has a strong commitment to help the medical office manager survive in this complex world of healthcare operations by mentoring in customer service, practice management and team building.

Her presentations on OSHA Awareness have helped other office managers understand Federal safety requirements and to create programs specific to the needs of their individual offices. She is currently working on a user-friendly office administration manual. Because she knows the daily challenges that confront the practice manager, she is committed not only to their survival, but also the enjoyment and success of the mission.

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JAMES B. COUCH, M.D., J.D., FACPE

James B. Couch, M.D., J.D., FACPE, over the past 30 years as a practicing physician, attorney and senior executive for several health care, financial, legal and professional services organizations, has devoted his career to health care quality and patient safety, especially where the practice and principles of medicine, law, information technology, business and risk management merge.  For the past three years, he has assisted in the development of the patient safety strategy for Princeton Insurance Company, the leading medical professional liability carrier in New Jersey.  He also recently co-authored with Princeton an Electronic Medical Record Patient Safety and Risk Management Guide for Princeton’s 7500 insured physicians and 35 covered hospitals and health systems.  For the past year, he has introduced to national healthcare thought and opinion leaders the Anvita Health (formerly Safe Med) system, which is the real time clinical decision support system powering Google’s Personal Health Record (PHR).   

Dr. Couch sat on the AMA House of Delegates (HOD) for four years. He held leadership positions in three national medical specialty societies in the AMA HOD dedicated to improving the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of patient care delivery.   Dr. Couch is the author of three major books on healthcare quality, disease and health management.  He recently authored two white papers for the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) on the risk management benefits of certified electronic health records at the behest of the American Health Information Community (AHIC) chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.(HHS).

Dr. Couch has also sat on two Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committees focused on improving the quality and safety of care through more effective health services research.

Dr. Couch has lectured at Penn, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Cornell, Harvard, Yale and Oxford in the areas of quality, patient safety and health policy.