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EXECUTIVE TEAM
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John Haffty
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| jhaffty@navinhaffty.com |
John Haffty brings over 26 years of Healthcare Information Systems experience and is a recognized expert in the MEDITECH HCIS. With Jim Navin, he has formed Navin, Haffty and Associates. Prior to this, he served as President of UCR Solutions, which developed Internet applications for the MEDITECH HCIS and provided technical services to these hospitals. During his one-year tenure, UCR Solutions achieved significant revenue and profit growth and established itself as a national company. Prior to his time with UCR Solutions, Mr. Haffty served as Vice President of its MEDITECH Consulting Group for Superior Consultant Company. Under his leadership, Superior grew into one of the largest MEDITECH consulting practices in the country. During his three-year term at Superior, Mr. Haffty oversaw more than 40 implementations of the MEDITECH HCIS, of which more than half were with the Client Server platform. He was directly involved in managing the successful re-implementation of MEDITECH's largest, multi-facility client-server project. His team grew to a staff of more than 50 consultants.
Prior to Superior, Mr. Haffty was Chief Information Officer for Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Mass., selected as one of the best hospital information systems by Hospitals magazine in 1992. While at Newton-Wellesley, Haffty implemented the MEDITECH health care information system and developed a beta-site relationship with the company where the hospital became a showcase for prospective client site visits and tested new products and upgrades.
Mr. Haffty has been a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society since 1986 and was selected for the prestigious Constituent's award for Information Systems in 1999. An active member of the MEDITECH community, he was the Northeast Regional Chair of the MEDITECH Users Group (MUSE) from 1988-1990, and was on the MUSE National Board of Directors from 1990-1994.
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David Rizk
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| DRizk@navinhaffty.com |
David Rizk has over 25 years of Information Systems and Services experience. Over the years, Mr. Rizk has served in variety of positions including 17 years in Healthcare at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, an academic health sciences center as Chief Information Officer. He was responsible for the implementation and operations of the Medical Center’s integrated Healthcare Information Systems. During that time, Mr. Rizk worked closely with MEDITECH on new systems, services and technologies. He was an active and respected member of the MEDITECH community and various user groups.
Mr. Rizk has also served as Deputy CIO in the Higher Education market in the University of Massachusetts supporting the University systems, including its multi-campus system-wide IS organization and services. During this time Mr. Rizk was responsible for the development of the University’s IS organization, its system wide IS Governance model and managed numerous multi-year projects, multi-million dollar mission critical projects.
Mr. Rizk has extensive experience in building Information Systems organizations, infrastructure and services. He has served in many capacities responsible for strategic and tactical planning. His responsibilities, has provided operational management including managing IT organization(s) in excess of one-hundred and twenty staff and twenty plus million dollar operational budget.
Mr. Rizk is a seasoned IS professional and brings a wonderful breath of operational experience and expertise in all areas of information services business operations and relationship management.
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Sarah Gill
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| sgill@navinhaffty.com |
Sarah Gill has over twenty years of professional experience in the Health Care Industry, focusing primarily on Hospital Information Systems Implementations Consulting. Throughout her career, Ms. Gill led a number of successful HIS implementations and was instrumental in establishing a national MEDITECH consulting practice, well known for it's exceptional talent and customer focus. Prior to joining the Navin Group and Navin Haffty, Ms. Gill served as Vice President for Superior Consultant Company's MEDITECH consulting Practice.
During her four years with Superior, Ms. Gill led and managed multiple successful client engagements and recruited some of the industry's top MEDITECH consulting talent.
Ms. Gill holds a B.S. degree in Health Science from Northeastern University.
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Larry Guay
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| lguay@navinhaffty.com |
Larry Guay joined the Navin Group in 1998. He has over 30 years of direct healthcare industry experience. Larry has worked for the major vendors of information systems with an emphasis on integrated delivery systems. He conducts searches for the consulting community with a specialization in medical informatics.
Mr. Guay is a member of the HIMSS, New England Chapter and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Merrimack College
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Carla Abate
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| cabate@navinhaffty.com |
Carla Abate has over 20 years healthcare and financial
information
technology experience involving major implementation, support services and
consulting. Her expertise includes project management of major
application implementations on multiple software platforms and
re-engineering information technology and customer support services
departments.
Prior to joining Navin, Haffty & Associates, Ms. Abate served
as Executive Director in the MEDITECH Practice of Superior Consultant
Company. Her previous career as Information Technology and Strategic
Director for a Cerner reference laboratory included management of
information systems, client management roles in more than 50 corporate
outpatient facilities, as well as the management of client services.
Ms.
Abate also directed Applications Support Services at a multi-facility
healthcare organization, which included 17 satellite ambulatory clinics.
She held management positions at two major vendors of healthcare systems
located in the Midwest and South respectively, and client support and
implementation in financial enterprises. |
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Joanne Blanchette
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| jblanchette@navinhaffty.com |
Joanne Blanchette is an accomplished senior management professional with PMI certification and more than 25 years’ of healthcare experience. She has led many MEDITECH implementation projects and has assisted hospitals with their strategic planning to improve and optimize their use of the MEDITECH HCIS. Always the professional, she has achieved significant benefits and positive outcomes for numerous healthcare organizations with her outstanding leadership skills and ability to facilitate change.
Prior to joining Navin, Haffty and Associates, Ms. Blanchette was an Executive Director with Superior Consultant Company. While consulting over the past seven years, Ms Blanchette has been involved with many standardization initiatives as well as process redesign for both clinical and fiscal disciplines for many organizations and has been instrumental in assisting these organizations to optimize their clinical and business processes through upgrading their MEDITECH systems functionality as well as through internal process changes.
Other noteworthy accomplishments include HCIS system selections, OR system selections, Enterprise wide scheduling system selections, MEDITECH ring release implementations, Revenue Cycle Process Improvements crossing all hospital disciplines, Interim Management, Development of testing and training materials, Physician Practice Management and process improvement, Support for Medical Necessity and Corporate Compliance and HIPAA.
Prior to consulting, Ms. Blanchette was the Director of Patient Access Services for a community hospital in the suburbs of Boston. |
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