Deb Vandenbroucke
Madison, Wisconsin 53704
Cell: (608) 469-6410



Email: info@debwork.com
 
 
2008-present
Independent Consultant
Madison, WI
   
 
2007
Dean - St. Mary's Medical Center
Madison, WI
 

Inpatient Order Products Specialist for St. Mary's Hospital:
Designed Lab workflows between Epic Medical Record and HBOC's Star Lab
Worked with hospital specialty departments to configure orders, preference lists, charge navigator, and general orders workflow including use of system lists
Attended all dbv sessions and worked in a 4 person team on system build for orders.
Chaired meetings to review and provide feedback on collaboratively built ordersets.

Experience
1996-2007
Independent Consultant
Madison, WI
 

Assist Epic Systems Corporation’s customers in various capacities to install and roll out the EpicCare medical record system. Primary responsibility has been outpatient HL7 interface testing, with my particular specialty being Lab interfaces but am familiar with the phrase "other duties as assigned".

Certified in Inpatient Orders and Order Transmittal (version Spring '07)

Customers:
  • Allina Health Care (Minneapolis)
  • The Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland)
  • Dean Health System (Madison)
  • Exempla Health Care (Denver)
  • The Monroe Clinic (Wisconsin)
  • The Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York)
  • Palo Alto Medical Foundation - a Sutter Health affiliate (Palo Alto)
  • ThedaCare (Appleton, WI)
  • University of Utah Health Network   (Salt Lake City)
  • WIITTS – a joint venture between Dean Health Plan & St. Mary’s Hospital (Madison)
  1993-2000
Epic Systems Corporation
Madison, WI
  1996-2000 Quality Assurance (part-time)Tested EpicCare medical record system and its lab interface. Until the year 2000 I was the only employee allowed to work from home.

1994-1996 Epic Systems Corporation Madison, WI
Install CoordinatorManaged the installation of EpicCare medical records system. Primarily, this was a project management position to help keep customer and Epic resources in sync. Training was a major part of the installation starting with how to run the project through how to train end users (doctors and nurses). Workflow design was vitally important, as was interface design. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and creative problem solving were required. Customers: Mayo Clinics in Scottsdale, AZ and Kenyon, MN; American Health Network (Indianapolis); Aetna’s Healthways Clinics (Cleveland); and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (Boston).

1993-1994 Epic Systems Corporation Madison, WI
ProgrammerWrote programs to maintain and enhance appointment scheduling system. Also supported customers via telephone and assisted with the training of The Children’s Memorial Medical Center of Chicago.

  1991-1993
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center
Chicago, IL
  1992-1993 Sr. Programmer/analyst (full-time)
Maintained Medical Staff Office Application (Informix/SQL), which tracks provider credentials required by HCFA. Trained users on all new functions, relational database theory, and SQL queries. Developed database, reports, and user documentation. Additionally, I managed a consultant developer.Support analyst for the Medical Records department’s chart tracking system. Managed the conversion to Novell network. This position required clear communication between the department, software vendor (SoftMed), Information Systems, and other internal departments. Trained users and set up the system for release of information area.

1991-1992 Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center Chicago, IL
Programmer/analyst (part-time)
Maintained hospital’s inpatient pharmacy system.
 
  1984 –1991 Harvard Community Health Plan Boston, MA
  1987–1991
Consultant/ContractorWorked in various capacities for Medical Systems Management to develop a new medical information system. Part of a two-person database team that documented and modeled the production system, reviewed new requirements, and created the conceptual data model for the new system using object-oriented methodology. Also participated creating workflow and dataflow diagrams. Eventually, when I was employed at Epic Systems Corp., Harvard purchased Epic Systems instead of continuing their own development. I was Epic’s installer for Harvard.

1986–1987 Harvard Community Health Plan Boston, MA
Medical Systems SupervisorSupervised 4 full-time programmers and managed consultants for a variety of applications.

1984–1986 Harvard Community Health Plan Boston, MA
Programmer/AnalystIn addition to software development, managed various sized projects that involved coordinating team members of diverse responsibilities (from data entry clerks to Deputy Medical Director). The largest of these was the development of a clinical reminder system. Primary responsibility was to enhance and maintain the medical record system.

  1981 – 1984 American Red Cross Regional Center St. Louis, MO
  Senior Programmer/Analyst
Primarily wrote programs to track blood donors and blood products. Had major role in training and hiring of programming staff. Additional duties were operational: performance and disc space management, coordination of hardware maintenance, and installation of operating system updates
Awards

1996* Epic Systems Corporation: ”Daily Planet Award”
“For artful EpicCare Installs. For independent Achievement”
(*This award was presented to me after I had given notice to leave Epic!)

1996 Epic Systems Corporation: “It’s a Bird It’s a Plane Award”
(Epic’s award system is based on Superman). This award was presented in Recognition of the Mayo Clinic installation, which went very smoothly.

1985 Harvard Community Health Plan: “Diamond Award”
“In recognition of project leadership, and for supporting the HCHP corporate goals of service, quality, cost containment, and staff satisfaction.”


Education

BA, Mathematics and Art, Eureka College - summa cum laude
MFA, University of Chicago

 
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