Ann Ingraham, Ph.D.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Doctor Ingraham is an experienced leader in healthcare information technology and informatics with fifteen years of health information technology consulting. She is experienced in developing innovation strategies around new technologies, as well as leading advisory sessions and IT Program Management. Doctor Ingraham holds a Ph.D. in business administration with specialization in the management of engineering and technology. Her dissertation was a phenomenological study focused on the adoption of the electronic health record (EHR) by psychiatrists and psychiatric ARNPs in a community behavioral health organization.

Dr. Ingraham recently spoke at the Government Blockchain Association (GBA) symposium at George Mason University on Blockchain in Healthcare and its impact on reducing the interoperability gap. She is a member of the Government Blockchain Association’s (GBA) Healthcare Working Group and also the HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force.

Doctor Ingraham consulted and provided program leadership to deploy the electronic health record (EHR) system at Sutter Health, a hospital system in California consisting of five geographic regions and 24 hospitals, affiliated clinics, and practices. Doctor Ingraham successfully led the cutover/activation efforts for 22 of the 24 hospitals.

Doctor Ingraham also consulted and led the cutover for the first 3 of 11 hospitals at NY City Health + Hospitals (NYC H+H). Under the leadership of her senior vice president, and in collaboration with her IT and operational counterparts, the team overcame implementation barriers which plagued the organization for about 3 years and successfully deployed the EHR to Queens and Elmhurst hospitals within 45 days of arriving on site.

Dr. Ingraham’s other successes include leading the clinical informatics team at Anthelio Healthcare to deploy a laboratory information system (LIS) across six hospitals as well as the buildout of a centralized corporate laboratory. Additionally, while consulting with CTG Healthcare Solutions, Inc. she worked closely with sales executives to develop a business model to remotely build clinical order sets. Her work resulted in establishing a strategic offering for CTG as well as reducing the cost and resource burden of building the order sets to the client.

Dr. Ingraham’s professional goal is to continue her work to advance the adoption of innovative health information technology to better enable the delivery of quality healthcare with definite and targeted value to patients.

SKILL SET

Portfolio Management Program Management Project Management
Benchmarking KPI Establishment Leadership
Consulting CPOE EHR

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Ph.D. Business Administration, Management of Engineering and Technology, 2019  Northcentral University, San Diego, CA

Master of Business Administration, Information Systems, 2001 City University of Seattle, Seattle, WA

 Bachelor of Science, Healthcare Administration, 1998 City University of Seattle, Seattle, WA

Associate of Applied Science, Medical Laboratory Technician, 1990 PPI Health Careers School, Colorado Springs, CO

Epic Systems, Inpatient Orders Certified Epic Systems, Verona, WI

Medical Technologist, Registered American Medical Technologists (AMT), Rosemont, IL

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EXTERNAL PRESENTATION & AFFILIATIONS

 Government Blockchain Association (GBA), 2019

Blockchain in Healthcare: Blockchain reducing the interoperability gap

Oregon Homecare Association, 2001

Outcome Based Quality Improvement (OBQI): Sales and educational presentation focused on preparing and understanding the impact and benchmarking OASIS data to support the Perspective Payment System (PPS) and Outcome Based Quality Improvement

Government Blockchain Association (GBA) Healthcare Working Group, 2019

HMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Taskforce member, 2019

HIMSS Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) Steering Committee Member (2009-2011)

EIS Liaison to HIMSS Health Information Exchange (HIE) Committee, 2009

HIMSS Asia-Pacific Conference Proposal Reviewer, 2009

HIMSS Asks Taskforce member, 2009

Eden Citadel Empowerment Association, https://www.edencitadel.org/

Founder of this Not-For-Profit Ministry to help Christian church leaders develop practical organizational growth strategies. We also provide bible-based business education to promote growth of enterprises.

 In 2014 I brought the ministry to Kenya; teaching single mothers and widows how to become entrepreneurs while conducting business based on biblical principles. We have graduated 33 women.