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Deborah Leyva, RN

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Experience includes provision of strategic guidance to physicians, clinics and hospitals for migration from paper to electronic records, meaningful use criteria, clinical informatics, HIM strategy, workflow improvement and clinical decision support analytics. Recognized as a leader who mentors staff and manages projects at both task and relationship levels to create a culture of cooperation among team members, including those who are virtual.

Development and support of clinical strategic initiatives including the SDLC for vision, strategy, planning, budgeting, clinical and business requirements, workflow improvements, quality assurance, testing, project management, and post-implementation evaluations. Broad and deep technology experience includes databases, networks, applications, and various programming languages (e.g. SQL, C). Recognized for the ability to work with all levels of an organization with exceptional communication and writing skills. Co-author of The HIPAA Survival Guide. Co-authored The HIPAA Survival Guide for Practitioners available at www.hipaasurvivalguide.com.Designed, developed and marketed commercial software products

MS in Health Informatics from University of South Florida's Morsani College of Medicine
BS in Nursing from University of Tampa

Specialties: Healthcare, management, research, analytics, software implementation, project management, quality/performance analytics and informatics.