Richard Taylor

Physician informatician, executive, and strategic consultant with expertise in strategic IT initiatives, medical informatics and clinical quality. Broad clinical experience in highly complex and innovative environments. Extensive EHR (primarily Epic) Implementation and optimization experience in multibillion-dollar health systems. Experienced with software and firmware development including hands-on software engineering, strategic planning and analysis, creation and leadership of large teams, and rapid-cycle innovation and execution in support of critical organizational needs.

Licensed and board-certified pediatrician with practice experience in multiple clinical venues.

Experience

Chief Clinical Informatics Officer

• Company Name BJC HealthCare
• Dates EmployedJul 2019 – Present
• Employment Duration6 mos
• Location Greater St. Louis Area

Partner and CEO

• Company Name Executive Pathways Advisory Group
• Dates EmployedMay 2019 – Present
• Employment Duration8 mos

Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer

• Company Name MedSys Group
• Dates EmployedMay 2013 – Apr 2019
• Employment Duration6 yrs
• Location Frisco, TX

Advisory consulting and group leadership at a top-tier advisory and staffing services organization. Responsible for clinical advisory direction and effective use of the expertise of a highly skilled advisory organization. Focused on clinical governance, technical-clinical interaction, informatics, and related areas. Past engagements include clinical practice optimization, value realization from EHR implementation, health information exchange, population health, large-project and large-team governance, strategic IT planning, and effective use of edge technology in leading organizations across the country.

Chief Medical Information Officer

• Company Name Geisinger Health System
• Dates EmployedDec 2015 – Jul 2018
• Employment Duration2 yrs 8 mos
• Location Danville, Pennsylvania

Operational clinical informatics and informatics team leadership at this world-class health care delivery system. Responsible for providing clinical IT oversight, organizational governance, and management of key initiatives in a highly complex informatics culture. Help direct innovative development, Epic optimization, data management and use, de-customization, and interoperability within and outside the IT organization. Group leadership of a diverse community of physician informaticians and participation in Clinical Informatics fellowship teaching. Co-led large-scale EPCS implementation, HIMSS 7 inpatient/outpatient certification, major upgrades, major Epic implementations.

Company Name Providence Health and Services Total Duration5 yrs 3 mos

• Title Chief, IS Strategy and Business Development
• Dates EmployedMar 2012 – May 2013
• Employment Duration1 yr 3 mos

• LocationRenton, WA Responsible for IS strategic direction at a 32-hospital multi-state integrated delivery system. Accountable for creating and maintaining IT Governance structures (local, regional, and system-wide), enabling and nurturing key strategic innovation, new technologies and expanded application of existing capacities. Created a comprehensive IT outreach service including EMR hosting, non-EMR IT services, HIE and interface data outreach, and strategic IT business development.

• TitleChief Program Officer - Epic

• Dates EmployedNov 2010 – May 2013

• Employment Duration2 yrs 7 mos

Founded and led Providence's 1000+ person Epic team implementing Epic on a 2.5 year timeline covering 4400+ acute care beds and some 300 clinics. Responsibility for all aspects of deployment including cross-organization collaborative build and governance, technical deployment of servers, endpoints, networks and infrastructure, application build and QA, change control, production support, and evolution and creation of a long-term support structure covering both local hospital/clinic needs and scalable efficient models for application support. Budgetary responsibility for $775M overall project budget and cost control. Project completed substantially under budget and within expected parameters for schedule, quality, and organizational change acceptance.

• TitleChief Medical Information Officer (Oregon)
• Dates EmployedMar 2008 – Dec 2010
• Employment Duration2 yrs 10 mos

CMIO for Providence Oregon (8 hospitals, 500+ employed physicians). Responsible for physician engagement, EMR governance, innovation and new physician-facing IT technologies, and other areas of focus in a statewide faith-based not-for-profit integrated health care delivery system. Led successful multi-vendor effort to implement standards-based structured data interchange between dissimilar EMR systems. Leadership role in CPOM implementation, achieving near-100% adoption and HIMSS Level 6 designation for lead facilities. Implemented novel CPOM integration technologies leading to substantial physician adoption. Regulatory involvement including Healthcare Intelligence evolution, data warehousing, specific core measure reporting and optimization, and review/assistance for documentation improvement measures.

Vice President, Medical Affairs

• Company Name McKesson Provider Technologies
• Dates EmployedMar 2006 – Apr 2009
• Employment Duration3 yrs 2 mos

Sales support and solutions engineering for Fortune-15 pharmaceutical distributor and healthcare IT vendor. Responsible for pre- and post-sales support for integrated EMR and related systems. Developed integration technologies, demonstration methodologies, and other aids to the sales support process. Substantial and intensive end-customer contact and relationship development, along with training and mentoring responsibilities. President's Achievement Award (Solution Consultant of the Year) 2007.

Physician

Company Name Kaiser Permanente * Dates EmployedJun 2001 – Apr 2008 * Employment Duration6 yrs 11 mos * Location Denver, Colorado

Pediatrician, Pediatric Hospitalist, and member of IT Physician Leads team (Innovation and Decision Support). Practiced clinical pediatrics in outpatient, inpatient, and emergency department settings in community and tertiary-care settings. Assisted with Epic EMR go-lives and provided support for pre-Epic and Epic EMR physician adoption and engagement.

Project Director

• Company Name HEI, Inc
• Dates EmployedJul 2001 – Jul 2003
• Employment Duration2 yrs 1 mo
• Location Boulder, CO

Project Director for medical device development outsourcing organization. Provided project leadership, embedded software development, verification/validation engineering, and other services in an FDA-registered development and manufacturing organization. Major areas of development included medical devices based on PalmOS and embedded Linux, as well as complex networking topologies and fault tolerant system design.

Resident in Pediatrics

• Company Name The Children's Hospital of Denver
• Dates EmployedJun 1998 – Jun 2001
• Employment Duration3 yrs 1 mo
• Location Denver, CO

Intern and resident in general pediatrics. Community, academic, and childrens' hospital settings as well as outpatient pediatrics in community and integrated delivery network settings.

Independent Software Engineering Contractor

• Company Name Forefront, Inc., Kapre Software, Mountain Engineering II, and others
• Dates EmployedOct 1993 – Sep 1994
• Employment Duration1 yr
• Location Boulder, CO

Independent software development for several organizations in the Boulder area. Specific work included SunOS C++ client/server system creation, embedded system design and development, and networking software.

Education

University of Colorado School of Medicine

• Degree Name MDField Of StudyMedicine
• Dates attended or expected graduation1994 – 1998

University of Colorado Boulder

• Degree Name BAField Of StudyDistributed Studies (CS, Math, Chemistry)
• Dates attended or expected graduation1977 – 1994