2018 CRC Symposium Case Study Competition

A team from Renton, Washington–based Providence St. Joseph Health System is this year's CRC Symposium Case Study Competition winner. Suman Nooney, BE, and Brigitte R. Workman, BA, will present their case study, Creating Consolidated Data the Easy Way: How Providence St. Joseph Health System Integrated Medical Staff and Credentialing Processes, at the 2018 CRC Symposium, February 5-6 in Las Vegas.

Bringing over a decade of experience in developing innovative solutions, Nooney, senior quality and performance engineer, IS Quality and Testing Group, manages all quality assurance (QA) and user testing for Providence’s master data program. His data quality tools support provider master data owners and stewards across seven states. An expert in data analysis and data visualization building, Nooney has developed products for C-suite analytics. He has introduced QA best practices to Providence St. Joseph Health Plan and was key in the organization’s ICD-10 implementation success prior to joining the master data management team. Nooney holds a bachelor of engineering degree from Anna University, India, and a certificate in data science from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Workman is senior consultant, master data management, and has more than 25 years of strategic planning experience in finance and healthcare. Her work with MSPs and physician leaders in the credentialing arena includes data development services, credentialing application strategy, and consolidation project development for the third largest non-profit health system in the United States. Workman offers C-suite–level consulting services in automation of provider data delivery, including master data; identity and access management; web and internal directories; management of referring provider populations; and development of data solutions to expand networks, accountable care services, health plans, and more. Most recently, she led an initiative to integrate the data of nearly 60 credentialing teams into a single provider source of truth.   

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