Eza Hafeza

Location

Address: 

412 via el Chico

City: 

Redondo beach

State: 

California

Zip Code: 

90277

Eza Hafeza

412 Via el Chico

Redondo Beach, CA 90277

Office: (310) 373-1364         E-mail: eza.asr@verizon.net       ehafeza@gmail.com    Cell:  (310) 961-7613  

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Professional Summary

Over 15 years experience in Clinical information systems and Informatics, medical and pharmacy. Strong leadership and management skills. Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Excellent communication skills.  Intensive knowledge and experience in strategizing, clinical planning in implementation and deployment projects. Experienced in most clinical application types, Inpatient system, Outpatient system, CPOE, and clinical documentation. Experienced in coding and clinical nomenclature, including ICD9, CPT, LOINC, SNOMED CT (English, and Spanish), FDB, Multum, Medispan, RxNorm. Topic presenter at international informatics conferences, and webinar. Team and educational trainer. Fluent in five languages, coupled with strong interpersonal skills with national and international clients.

 

Professional Experience

 

Currently CEO and Owner of E H Informatics, LLC IT consulting company (Redondo Beach, CA)                 2010-present

 

·      Here is a list of E H Informatics,LLC responsibilities:

 

·         Developing and strategizing workflow, project plan/transition plan for implementation of content for EPIC new client

·         Co-lead creation of ontology based on HITSP C80 (clinical document and messaging requirements,) and HITSP C83 (CDA content modules) and meaningful use requirements.

·         Program management consultant, in implementation of ICD 10 transition project

·         Product management of master ordering catalog for imaging and laboratory orders

·         Development and Implementation of  Change Management Process in Terminology Management tools

·         QA pharmacy data mapping, managing workflow between resources nationally and internationally

·         Validated, and created data elements in value set as part of quality measures creation.

·         Strategy and planning the transition of homegrown terminologies to  a centralized and standardized terminology solution for example SNOMED – CT

·         Creation and customization of courses around SNOMED CT and other nationally accredited terminologies like NDF-RT, and RxNORM, Concept model, and mapping to standardize and reference terminology.  These training materials were also presented nationally and internationally. 

·         Managing the implementation/transition process and data delivery for clients.

 

Here is a list of the companies E H Informatics, LLC worked with:

 

IHTSDO; dbMotion, Inc

GE-Intermountain Health;

McKesson Provider Technologies

FDB – Medispan – Micromedex – RxNorm (Medications)

CAP – STS; IMO, Inc

Kaiser Permanente, Remedy MD, Lantana group; Relay Health group; PSMI, INC

 

College of American Pathologists - SNOMED Terminology Solutions (Northfield, IL)                                                  2008- 2010

 

Clinical Informatics Consultant - Clinical Lead

·         Direct corporate strategic planning projects, in medical and pharmacy terminology implementation initiatives. (Clinical Project Lead in dbMotion ontology creation (CTS)

·         Consult and Lead large scale project plan in medical terminology services for ibSalut (Spain)

 

Project lead (mapping and validation)

·         Managed projects for prospective and current users of SNOMED CT (ICD9, CPT4, LOINC, RxNORM , UNII)

·         Educated clients on the use of SNOMED CT.

·         Created SCT educational courses, translated to Spanish, and presented to the Ministry of Health in Spain

·         Evaluated tools for internal use in data development (subset creation, queries, QA)

·         Collaborated on grant processing, writing, requirements for development (initial phase execution USF Rare disease grant)

·         Liaison between IHTSDO clinical editors’ team and the consultants from other teams to keep them informed of changes /updates that occur continuously in the development of International SNOMED CT database

·         Provided staff orientation and training, for new and existent employees

 

McKesson Provider Technologies, MPT (Louisville, CO)                                                                                                             2006- 2008

 

Clinical Content Analyst

·         Developed and managed a process for medication orders quarterly update and maintenance for CPOE application and in apps like HEO Inpatient, HEC Emergency, HAC Outpatient.

·         Standardized representation of routes, and frequencies in coordination with 4 team across four applications (HEO, HEC, HMM, and Admin RX)

·         Cross mapping between US FDB and Canadian FDB data.

·         Training on Health Language (HLi) development tool for medical terminology CTM

·         QA content including testing scenarios, and coordination with QA team

·         Managing Change requests CRS, and issues encountered by the QA team and clients

·         Collaboration and coordination with implementation team to facilitate data integration to new clients.

 

 

 

Kaiser Permanente, KP-IT (Pasadena, CA)                                                                                                                                   2001- 2006

               

Team Lead-Senior Business Consultant /Senior Modeler II -KPHC CMT (Convergent Medical Terminology) team.

·         Managing a complex strategy in EPIC content files like HLX, and customized reports from Clarity and Chronicles.

·         Managing change management request tool and process for KP-CMT in CSDB (Context Set Database

·         Developing and managing Communication Reach-out Process between KP regions, and CMT.  

·         As liaison between Apelon, inc and KP CMT.   Design reviews, implementation and monitoring TDE tool

·         Coordinated distributed modeling between KP and SNOMED under Apelon close monitoring.

·         Training new CMT additions to the team and cross training colleagues on applications and tools used by CMT.

  Business Consultant/Senior Modeler I

·         Populated terminology data files (EPIC files).

·         Developed communication processes to Epic POC, CMT, load teams, interface groups in pharmacy domain.  

·         Co-managed ELG (EPIC pharmacy data file), mapping data to FDB with pharmacy data services in KP.

·         Developed the Allergen hierarchy to support newly created CMT concepts which was a part of SCT 2006 January release

·         Coordinated with SCA region implementation needs for CIS 1.5

·         Communicated issues and coordinated meetings and conferences to resolve pending and anticipated potential problems.

·         Represented CMT in SCA for ancillary (LIS, RIS, KITS, and EKG) and non-ancillary systems teams.

               

CMT modeler

·         Build vocabulary for National CMT to support KP national/regional business needs in CIS previously and later in EPIC

·         Created new concepts for HI in R1.0 and the initial baseline for the new regions in R1.5 (SCA, CO, HI).

·         Supported migration of R1.0 CMT version into the new R1.5 Harmonized CMT database.

·         Worked with SCT modeling team, and LOINC team in creating new heuristics to support KP needs.

·         HCFA mapping and coding (ICD9 and CPT4).

·         Created documents and processes for CMT internal processes.

 

Medicalogic / Medscape (San Francisco, CA)                                                                                                                                2000 – 2001                                 Clinical Knowledge engineer

·         Defined requirements for development of clinical terminology used in Logician Enterprise and Logician Internet

·         Processed observations terms(free text vocabulary), harvest and mapped to reference terminologies such as (SNOMED CT)

·         Packaged production kits (medical terminology packages) for customers.

·         Co-authored editorial policy for mapping local terms to resources like SNOMED CT, LOINC.

·         Co-developed and tested new vocabulary development tool.  

·         High volume contact with customers (doctors, integration team, data analysts, etc) throughout the US

 

FirstData Bank (San Bruno, CA)                                                                                                                                                  1997 - 2000

               

                Medical Knowledge engineer

·         Created and maintained disease profiles for a diagnostic medical data base QMR- Quick Medical Reference.  

·         Researched disease information in Stanford University-Medical Library, in addition to online research tools.

·         Intensive research and collaboration with medical editor in chief

 

                Research associate II- International services

·         Appointed lead for the medication development of Multilex DKB Belgium drug file.

·         Implemented and improved editorial policy of the pharmacy database for international use.  

·         Trained new team members within International Clinical services.  

·         Lead the development effort for new French international database.       

·         Interacted intensively with international clients and pharmaceutical manufacturers and medical information services.

 

Princeton Medical Center (Princeton, NJ) 

                                                                                                                                                                                                          1993 - 1997

                Pharmacy technician – Inpatient Pharmacy

                Manager /physician assistant for Chief of Otolaryngology at Princeton medical center - Nassau  ENT, private practice

University Hospital (Brno, Czech Republic)

 

                Clinical Intern in GI department – Clinical rotations

                Clinical Intern in Ortho department - Clinical rotations

                Research assistant in experimental liver transplant –

 

Education    

Medical school, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 1980-1987

BS in Biological Sciences, Rutgers University 1989-1993

Microsoft Access fundamentals, intermediate, and advanced topics in UCSC 1999

Project Management seminar (2000)

EPIC system certification - Ambulatory Fundamentals I and II, and Clarity training Madison, WI (2004),

EPIC Inpatient and Outpatient Application training Pasadena (2005)

SNOMED mapping/modeling - training courses (2004 and 2005) and certification (2006)

Introduction to XML (2007)

Member of HIMSS since 2007

Member of AMIA since 2001

 

Languages

 

English, French, Arabic, Spanish and Czech language: write, speak, and read, and Latin for medical terminology.

Translated medical scripts and research documents into the languages listed above, and presented to physician community, medical schools, and various institutions.