Randy Woodward, RN, ACHIP

Over the past 20+ years, Randy has lead the development of innovative databases, registries, data integration, analytic and reporting systems for quality improvement, pay for performance (P4P), hospital safety, medical research, and clinical trials. His work on registry design has been included as a case study in an AHRQ publication, and is a coauthor on several peer-reviewed journals based on analytic studies. Randy applies clinical, informatics, quality improvement, data, and analytics knowledge to help accomplish the goals of the Quadruple Aim: Improving patient and provider experiences, improving population health, and reducing the per capita cost of health care.Randy has extensive experience integrating hospital, ambulatory, and administrative (claims) information systems, including Health Information Exchange (community clinical data), Electronic Health Records (clinical data), Enterprise Master Patient/Provider Index (record linking and identity resolution), Semantic Harmonization (vocabulary, ontology), Claims Analytics (risk and episodes), Clinical and Claims data warehouses, and Big Data platforms. Randyís background includes roles in business intelligence, quality improvement informatics, and analytics with his most recent role serving as the Director of Big Data and Architecture at Ascension Information Systems.