Jodi R Bloom

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Professional Resume

Jodi R. Bloom, RN, BSN, MBA

Combining clinical and financial experience, I help healthcare providers to select, implement, and maintain their information systems. Creative, analytical, and resourceful in providing customized services and solutions for each client to achieve their unique objectives.

Mission: To be the best at providing technical consulting services in the area of data integrity in testing and business intelligence with a focus on healthcare financial and quality data integration.

Results: I have provided over 100 hospitals and healthcare providers with tools and expertise to improve their use of software to improve how people use technology for healthcare providers to be paid correctly. I have personally trained over 100 individuals in system implementation and report writing. Because I focus on how the system is used, not just how it is set up, most organizations have recovered their contract management software investment in the first year, and have gone on every year to collect millions of underpayments, and denied dollars they would have otherwise lost.

Technical: Data Mining tools includes all versions of Crystal Reports, Unix, SQL, and proprietary report writers as well as Microsoft Access, Excel, Word. Meaningful Use Monitoring. Dimensional Insights partner. Special contract management software includes Ascent® Contract Management System, Ascent® Quality Management System, Concuity Clear Contracts, JDA ehealth Parathon, Sure Decision, Kreg, Costflex, MedAssets Alliance, MedAssets Contract Manager.

CLIENT BASED EXPERIENCE

Principal

Bloom Road Consulting Group 2001 to current.

Healthcare consulting and contracting services, including business process improvement, system implementation, customized training, report writing, and technical support to help hospitals maximize their implementation of information systems with a focus on managed care contracting or quality management system software. Since 2009, have assisted hospitals with their Meaningful Use preparation and monitoring.

Remote or onsite services include software implementation, operations redesign, interface development and testing, contract coding, system table design, staff training, report writing with Crystal Reports 5 through 11, SQL, and MS Access.

We develop and maintain reports and reporting suites for patient clinical and financial reports for clients with single or multiple facilities with annual revenues from $5M to $4B. Our website and blog focuses on technical and industry topics. My company also provides custom software for specialized projects. http://www.bloomroad.com

Technical Environment: IBM AIX UNIX, Linux, Unify, Crystal Reports 5-11, MS Access, Excel.

Engagements include work with several multiple facility entities

· Payor Contract Management System Selection and Implementation

· Crystal Reports, SQL report writing and training

· Data Mining and Data integrity/restoration

· Data Extraction for regulatory submission

EMPLOYER BASED EXPERIENCE:

Senior Decision Support Analyst,

Triad Hospitals and Quorum Health Group. 2000 - 2002.

Brentwood, TN

Quorum Health Group owned 23 for-profit hospitals throughout the United States. I was the primary technical support during implementation of the Ascent® Contract Management System in 17 hospitals. I programmed contracts into system, developed reports, monitored interfaces and backups; performed system restores and provided technical and application support to users in the client-server application. Wrote or modified customized log and variance reports for Commercial, Medicare and Managed Care accounts. Evaluated and filled executive, management, and end-user requests for custom reports. Developed curricula and trained users at hospitals and corporate offices.

Technical Environment: IBM AIX UNIX 4.3, vi, Unify, 5r. Ascent® Contract Management System, Crystal Reports, stored procedures/J parameter. Interfaces to Ascent® from HBOC Star, Meditech, CPSI, Quadramed Affinity, PSSI, First Coast.

Applications Analyst

Saint Thomas Health Services. Nashville, TN 1998-2000

St. Thomas Hospital is a 500-bed facility with 75% cardiac patients. Implementation Project Manager for Ascent® Contract Management and Quality Management Systems. Established processes for contract modeling, returned contractuals, and Utilization Review With Crystal Reports 5 and 7, produced clinical and financial reports. Developed audits for data reliability, and supported end users and operational leaders.

Technical Environment: SMS Invision, IBM AIX Unix 4.3, vi, Unify, Ascent® Contract Management System, Ascent® Quality Management System, Sybase 9, Crystal Reports 5/7.

Provider Relations Coordinator, Case Manager, 1996-1998

Superior Health and Proactive Care, Woodruff, WI

Performed medical necessity review and catastrophic medical case management for the health plan. Coordinated selection and implementation of claims adjudication and case management software. Established processes for provider relations, fee schedule development, and credentialing for a startup Preferred Provider Organization, provider relations, and fee schedule development. Implemented electronic data interchange for direct and internet transfers of health claims and eligibility data. Developed Access and Crystal reports for claims and utilization management.

Clinical Information Analyst, Sept. 1993 to Sept. 1996

Howard Young Medical Center, Woodruff, WI

Implemented Order Entry software for Patient Care Areas in the hospital. Chaired the JCAHO Information Management Standards compliance task force to prepare successfully for the 1994 JCAHO accreditation survey. Coordinated search and selection for new hospital information system for multiple facility functionality.

1981-1993 Staff and Charge Nurse

Practiced in clinical areas of OB, ER, ICU, Home Health, and Physician's office. Specialties included Labor and Delivery, Patient Education, and Policy and Procedure development.

· Eagle River Memorial Hospital, Eagle River, WI 1982-1986, 1988

· Mercy Hospital, Urbana, Ill 1987-1988

· Howard Young Medical Center, Woodruff, WI 1988-1993

· Vilas County Home Health, Eagle River, WI 1987

· North Twin Medical Associates, Eagle River, WI 1986

Education:

· ADN. Associate Degree in Nursing (1981) North Central Technical Institute, Wausau, WI

· BSN. Bachelor of Science in Nursing (1998) University of Wisconsin Green Bay

· MBA. Master of Business Administration, Healthcare Management (2005) Regis University, Denver CO GPA 3.97

Professional Affiliations:

· Healthcare Finance Management Association (HFMA)

o Board Member TN chapter 2007-2010.

· Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS),

o Active SIG member 2004-current

o SIC SIG co-chair 2006-2008, 2010-2011

o SIC SIG Chair 2008-2010

o WI HIMSS 2010-

· Sigma Theta Tau, Nursing Professional Society.

Personal Interests:

Favorite leisure time activities are gardening, camping, hiking, singing, swimming, playing piano & guitar, sewing, and cross-country skiing, anything with friends and family.

Last modified: 05/02/11