Gary Gartner
Gary Gartner Resume
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Uniquely positioned as a medical professional and an IT and software development veteran, my interests lie in leveraging EHR technology to help physicians to improve the quality of care that they provide. Specialty interests include Pediatrics, preventive care in the primary care setting, and population management using evidence-based guidelines to improve patient outcomes.
Specialties: Medical Informatics, Product Management, Information Design, Pediatrics (Board certified 1994-2001)
Specialties: Medical Informatics, Product Management, Information Design, Pediatrics (Board certified 1994-2001)
Biomedical Engineering/Medical Informatics
Clinical Architect
Allscripts
Since November 2010
- As Clinical Architect I work closely with client clinicians, the User Experience team, and Technical Architects to develop the next generation systems that will provide Clinical Decision Support and documentation tools to clinicians to support delivery of optimal, quality-focused, evidence-based care. These tools are the building blocks, coupled with improved analytics, that will allow providers and provider organizations to realize their potential in implementing various value-based care initiatives (PCMH, ACO).
Clinical Architect, Enterprise EHR
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
February 2009
to November 2010
- As Clinical Architect and lead clinician for the Allscripts Enterprise EHR, I worked closely with our physician users to improve product usability and clinical workflow. This included:
- Established and lead the Enterprise Product Advisory Board, a group of physician users who
- provide ongoing feedback on product strategy and design.
- Applied my clinical training and experience to provide guidance to Business Analysts,
- Developers and QA staff in ongoing design and development of the software.
- Worked with functional and human factors architects on new features to ensure optimal clinical
- and user experience.
- Interpreted Meaningful Use regulations as part of ARRA/HITECH in order to provide guidance to
- teams that need to understand how data are created in clinical applications for product
- certification, documentation, and reporting
- Acted as primary contact for Patient Safety concerns
Director of Product Management, Enterprise EHR
AllscriptsMisys Healthcare Solutions
Since October 2008
Director of Product Management, TouchWorks EHR
Allscripts
May 2008
to October 2008
- As Director of Product Management, I provided clinical input to the design and enhancement of for TouchWorks v11 EHR's Decision Support, Health Maintenance Plan, and Clinical Workflow capabilities. I was an active participant and presenter in the "Voice of the Client" program which included Physician Advisory Board meetings focused on helping to design new features using input from a variety of medical specialties, as well as conference calls with Physicians users of TouchWorks to solicit feedback on new feature requirements and design proposals.
Director of Data Center Operations, Hospital Solutions Group
Allscripts
March 2006
to May 2008
- Manager of the Canopy ASP Operations team and outsourced hosting vendor (Mentora). With these teams, coordinated a successful migration of Oracle from Windows to Linux in order to support our growing client base. This position represents two changes from the previous position: the purchase of A4 by Allscripts, and the recent (1/2/2008) acquistion of ECIN (www.extendedcare.com) to form the Hospital Solutions Group encompassing both Canopy and ECIN. Continued as QM specifications expert until September 2007.
Director, Technology & Operations (Canopy)
A4 Health Systems
January 2005
to March 2006
- Canopy Systems was purchased by A4 Health Systems. My duties as VP of Technology and Operations for Canopy were only initially changed by location (move from Chapel Hill to Cary) and an improvement in purchasing power (A4 had partnerships with Dell and Oracle). We experienced fairly explosive growth and expansion in data center operations as the client base increased, nearly doubling in all tiers (web, database, storage). When presented with an opportunity to leverage my clinical background, I took on an additional role as Quality Management specifications expert. In this role, I worked with clients and external vendors to implement CMS/JCAHO quarterly changes to Core Measure data to support Canopy's QM module.
Vice President of ASP Operations
Canopy Systems
March 2001
to February 2004
- I led search to identify a HIPAA-friendly hosting vendor to house the Canopy application (Intel Online Services). Hired and managed the Operations staff to support growth in client base. Provided coordination and oversight of Canopy DBA and Development staff with Intel DBA support to complete successful SQL Server to Oracle migration. Successfully proposed to executive management and led the search for and purchase of a managed storage system (EMC Clariion), which paid for itself in reduction of hosting fees within a year and positioned Canopy to handle growth.
Chief Architect
Canopy Systems
Since October 1999
- Led the initial platform selection, design, and coding of the Canopy Care Management application
Senior Informatics Consultant
Future Healthcare
July 1998
to October 1999
- Designed and developed web-based and hosted Case Management software for AccessCare (www.ncaccesscare.org). At that time they were a state-wide network of Pediatric practices attempting to manage their Medicaid population under the Access II pilot program. An Asthma disease management module was added in the second year. This program saved the state approximately $1.7M in its first two years and was transitioned to another vendor as Future Healthcare began work on Canopy.
National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Informatics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
July 1996
to July 1998
