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HITEC Graduates

What are our former students doing with their HITEC education?

Our HITEC certificate programs are in demand because we remain flexible in order to meet the oportunities for funding sources, as well as, to keep current with the changing needs of the health care industry. Students have found success in advancing their careers with the education they've earned at CU.

Clinical Leader Executive Certificate

The certificate program for executive leadership in health information technology is targeted to those health care and public health professionals with managerial experience that will lead the deployment and use of health IT to achieve transformational improvements in quality, safety and outcomes.

Debbian Fletcher-Blake


Date of Graduation: 08/20/2012
Current Job Title: Assistant Executive Director
Place of Employment: Care for the Homeless
Current Job Responsibilities: I am now proficient as the head of the Health Information Management Department.
How HITEC Helped Me: It has given me tools to use to meet the increasing demand of HIT from a clinical, operational and financial perspective.

Teresa Gocsik


Date of Graduation: 08/05/2011
Current Job Title: Manager, Clinical Informatics Center of Excellence
Place of Employment: Aspen Advisors
Current Job Responsibilities: I assist clients with challenging situations to produce efficiencies, streamline workflows, select new systems that will complement their strategic initiatives and optimize their existing systems. All of the things are with the ultimate goal to produce systems of care that improve patient, community and population health.
How HITEC Helped Me: I have gained subject expertise that has given me the confidence to relate to both my internal and external clients. The program provided me with the resources and contacts necessary to influence decision makers seeking best practice input.

Amy Goldstein


Date of Graduation: 12/20/2011
Current Job Title: Director of Pharmacy
Place of Employment: Acute Care Hospital
Current Job Responsibilities: In addition to all pharmacy related programing for the hospital, I also am part of the Technology Advisory Group responsible for IT governance for the hospital. Currently the IT department is going through major re-organization and I have also been involved at a leadership level in this redesign.
How HITEC Helped Me: Since, I am trusted and have a good relationship with physicians as Director of Pharmacy; the plans are for me to play a role in CPOE implementation. ~(2014) My new skills and certificate have opened this door for me. Also the broad understanding and overview of the IT landscape in America in regards to current and future trends, law and implementation has been very beneficial. Prior to this program I had a very rudimentary understanding of the depth and expanse of IT issues. I understood it from the users’ perspective, not from a leadership point of view. While I was always effective in achieving the ends necessary for the department of pharmacy, I now understand the risks and opportunities to the hospital. This makes me valuable to current and future employers, as I can be conduit between various levels in the organization.

Ann Mattson


Date of Graduation: 12/20/2011
Current Job Title:Physician Manager, Clinical Informatics
Place of Employment: Wardenburg Student Health Center CU-Boulder
Current Job Responsibilities: Institute informatics and QI program, with a specific focus on user support and outcome measures.
How HITEC Helped Me: Invaluable in educating me about the field and current state of implementation and functionality of clinical information systems. Also provided valuable formal education in leadership & leadership skills development.

Karen Miller


Date of Graduation: 08/05/2011
Current Job Title: Cheif Dental Officer
Place of Employment: Pueblo Community Health Center
Current Job Responsibilities: management of a dental clinic
How HITEC Helped Me: Introduction to electronic record processes.

Ann Shepard


Date of Graduation: 08/05/2011
Current Job Title: Vice President and Chief Nursing Informatics and Telehealth Officer
Place of Employment: Catholic Health Initiatives
Current Job Responsibilities: I am accountable and responsible for the successful implementation and adoption of our OneCare Program. This includes Epic, Cerner and Meditech in our hospitals and Allscripts in our ambulatory provider environments.
How HITEC Helped Me: The program offered peer support and expansion of previously acquired practical knowledge with infusion of current evidence based practice.

Heather Stocker


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Marguerite Swietlik


Date of Graduation: 08/05/2011
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How HITEC Helped Me: The courses' content provided valuable knowledge that I use to build clinical decision support tools in the electronic health record that will have a positive impact on patient outcomes.

Health Information Management and Exchange Specialist Certificate

The certificate program for health information management and exchange specialists prepares health care professionals to support the collection, management, retrieval, exchange, and/or analysis of information in electronic form, in health care and public health organizations. This role functions at an operational level to provide comprehensive management of health care information and its secure exchange between healthcare consumers and providers.

Lindsay Burwell


Date of Graduation: 08/20/2012
Current Job Title: Moving out of state in Jan 2013 and will be actively seeking a Clinical Informatics position in the Nashville, TN area
Place of Employment: Will be pursuing a position with a Clinical Applications Vendor or with Vanderbilt University.
Current Job Responsibilities: I am interested in positions that involve Project Management of Clinical Application Implementations or coordinating transformation clinical workflow from paper to electronic record.
How HITEC Helped Me: The certificate was an excellent introduction to the Nurse Informatics career, however I feel I would best be able to expand my career options with the Master's of Nursing Informatics which I am currently working towards.

Naneen Chace-Ortiz


Date of Graduation: 08/20/2012
Current Job Title: Clinical Analyst II - EpicCare Ambulatory Certified
Place of Employment: Maine Medical Center
Current Job Responsibilities: 1. Doing EMR implementation and project planning, 2. Understanding the needs for Meaningful Use attestation and compliance
How HITEC Helped Me: 1. Learned a lot about how a system goes live from analysis to training and implementation 2. Really gave me the confidence to take on projects that build on what I’ve learned in the HITEC courses 3. I loved the focus on nurses being agents of change. Open your mouth. Share your ideas. It was very empowering. Sometimes we work so hard we forget to think of the big picture and make suggestions for improvements.

Cathleen Danforth


Date of Graduation: 08/05/2011
Current Job Title: Clinical Nurse Leader
Place of Employment: Wentworth-Douglass Hospital
Current Job Responsibilities: I coordinate the implementation of the clinical EMR and provide ongoing education, optimization and consultation on the use of the clinical EMR.
How HITEC Helped Me: The program provided a diverse and comprehensive curriculum focus on current informatics content that enhanced my knowledge and understanding of HIT. With this certificate, I have the necessary understanding of HIT systems to confidently perform in my role. I also gained knowledge of HIT policies and current topics such as Meaningful Use. This has positioned me to actively contribute to the organization's goals.

Janet Ellingson


Date of Graduation: 08/05/2011
Current Job Title: Informatics Nurse Practitioner
Place of Employment: Integris Baptist Medical Center
Current Job Responsibilities: My major job responsibility is Quality Improvement and Meaningful Use Team Member.
How HITEC Helped Me: I believe the program helped me to achieve my career goal by preparing me to participate in the implementation of Electronic Health Records in a Clinical setting and to use the data collected to guide quality clinical care.

Courtney Frisch


Date of Graduation: 12/20/2011
Current Job Title: Staff Pharmacist
Place of Employment: Scottsdale Healthcare
Current Job Responsibilities: I have been building the new CPOE system in regards to medications and order sets for our 3 facility hospital system.
How HITEC Helped Me: The program helped with my understanding of meaningfull use requirements and database management.

Michael Gilhooly


Date of Graduation: 08/20/2012
Current Job Title: Health Information Manager
Place of Employment: Care for the Homeless (CFH)
Current Job Responsibilities: My major job responsibilities include managing the organization’s EHR system, ensuring appropriate Health Information exchange between 16 medical clinics, and collecting and summarizing EHR performance data to identify opportunities for quality improvement.
How HITEC Helped Me: This program has truly broadened my knowledge of health information management and technology. The tools I gained from this program were instrumental in receiving approval to construct and manage a new Health Information Management Department at my organization.

Jodene Gilman


Date of Graduation: 12/20/2011
Current Job Title: Medical Data Analyst
Place of Employment: GHX (Global Healthcare Exchange Company)
Current Job Responsibilities: I work in the hospital supply chain arena. I work with Databases to ensure that medical supplies are correctly updated for an automated ordering system which helps to save hospitals money. This automation reduces errors and improves efficiency in the hospital systems.
How HITEC Helped Me: This program gave me the experience with databases and IT to help me obtain this position at GHX. Laboratory experience and the IT experience gave me the credentials for this job.

Clare Huber-Navin


Date of Graduation: 12/20/2011
Current Job Title: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Project Lead for EHR Adoption
Place of Employment: Greenwood Pediatrics
Current Job Responsibilities: Two days per week I am a clinical provider of primary care pediatric services in a private practice. Three days per week I coordinate the selection process leading to deployment of Greenway PrimeSuites EHR this fall.
How HITEC Helped Me: The program is what has made it possible for me to take on a project of this complexity and hopefully lead it to a successful implementation in November and adoption over the next year.

Paula Morgan


Date of Graduation: 08/05/2011
Current Job Title: Manager, Epic Interfaces
Place of Employment: Providence Health & Services
Current Job Responsibilities: I manage a team of analysts and developers who support production interfaces for the Epic implementation project.
How HITEC Helped Me: I am looking for an opportunity to work with HIE efforts with my company. I believe my certificate from the HITEC program will help me land a position because I have current education and credentials in this area to go along with my many years of experience in healthcare IT.

Ellen Oba


Date of Graduation: 12/20/2011
Current Job Title: Currently working as a Coumadin Clinic RN; Seeking a position in Database Management and/or information exchange.
Place of Employment: Marshfield Clinic, WI
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How HITEC Helped Me: I feel that the certificate program prepared me for work in the clinical informatics arena. I have not had much experience in Information Systems Life Cycle and so have not been able to find a position in the field in my area.

Kellyn Pearson


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Health Information Technology Sub-Specialist

The certificate program for health information technology subspecialist is targeted toward MS/MBA graduates with a health administration or information systems focus. It combines the management concepts plus analytical and decision-making processes used in health care organizations with emerging information technologies in health care.

Renita Bean


Date of Graduation: 08/20/2012
Current Job Title: Accreditation Specialist, I will be able to use the certification to work in the capacity of health information technology to help the health care organization I work for in meeting Meaningful Use requirements and to help improve its health information capabilities for providers, staff, and patients.
Place of Employment: Greater Baden Medical Services
Current Job Responsibilities: My main job responsibility is to ensure that the organization is compliant with Joint Commission Standards, now with my Subspecialist Certification I will be able to expand compliance into IT as the organization strives to meet each stage of the meaningful use requirements.
How HITEC Helped Me: The program is helping me to expand what I can to do for the organization I work for; as the organization takes required steps that are needed to meet meaningful use, I am now in the position to offer guidance, recommendations and support that may help facilitate a better health exchange fit for now and in the future.

John Ingersoll


Date of Graduation: 08/20/12
Current Job Title: Chief, Clinical Operations
Place of Employment: General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital
Current Job Responsibilities: Continue along similar lines of managing outpatient/inpatient support systems and patient engagement/support processes
How HITEC Helped Me: Certainly helped in overall concepts of meaningful use/HIE way forward and general trends in integration. Also complexity of systems integration as the health system integrates multiple standards and data systems. Also of particular benefit was training along regulatory compliance requirements and complexities that will affect the health system under HIE environment. Greatly improved environmental scanning, assessment and project implementation abilities.

Kami Lee Poole-Warder


Date of Graduation: 08/05/2011
Current Job Title: Clinical Director of Emergency Services
Place of Employment: Hospital Corporation of America
Current Job Responsibilities: Engage in projects to bridge new care delivery models into clinical practice with the right technology, appropriately designed to support clinical practice. Coordinate nursing impact of technology deployments so that effectiveness and efficiency of care processes is maintained.
How HITEC Helped Me: The program provided me with the tools to evaluate the synergies between workflow process and technology solutions. As well as lead, innovate and support change for achieving transformation in healthcare.

Amber Stueven


Date of Graduation: 08/05/2011
Current Job Title: Program Director
Place of Employment: Regional Extention Center
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