Vinod Masanikere

Conduct expert reviews and gap analyses of clinical systems to enhance performance, collaborating closely with clinicians and operations teams to design Cerner IT solutions. Led the development and deployment of Cerner IT solutions, ensuring alignment with clinical and operational needs. Managed end-to-end implementation projects and provided comprehensive training and support to end users. Develop and deploy solutions in non-production domains before transitioning to production upon validation. Manage end-to-end projects, including Cerner core security and patient supply store systems. Additionally, oversee EMR Core access and coordinate change management meetings while maintaining ITSM audits. Serve as project manager and change management specialist for web development initiatives such as ED queuing, online payment, and charity portals.

As a Business Relationship Specialist, collaborated with clinical and operational stakeholders to manage IT demands across pediatric, women’s health, revenue cycle management, and patient access. Led the creation of business cases and project plans, overseeing projects from inception to completion. Additionally, facilitated EMR changes, obtaining approvals and implementing proactive health-check monitoring.

As a Clinical Informatist, spearheaded the design, testing, and implementation of clinical information systems, specializing in Cerner solutions for physicians, nursing, and patient access. Provided primary support for Cerner builds, ensuring adherence to registration and scheduling operations. Led process reviews, facilitated organizational workflows, and supported end users, troubleshooting Cerner

Expert in physician and nursing solutions, gathering and customizing requirements for builds. Collaborate with clinical teams for workflow finalization, impact assessments, and build validations. Guide end-users on new builds and support registration, scheduling, and revenue cycle operations. Facilitate communication among stakeholders for clinic or hospital services. Analyze clinical operations to support decision-making and participate in cross-functional teams to enhance systems and processes.

Managed the Cerner analysts team, activities, and delegated responsibilities. Managed and delivered the healthcare projects. Provided a full life cycle approach to design, development, test and delivery, with change support of new business process solutions. Supervised the complex business processes, development of detailed process maps and identified the key objectives of each process and the key controls. Prepared specifications and outlined designs of new solutions, new configurations and logical operations for the clinical information system. Developed clinical administrative process reviews and service improvement. Participated in the development, testing, training and support of clinical applications and business processes to meet the operational and clinical application needs of the organisation. Prepare and execute implementation methodologies. Participate on implementation, post-implementation support, upgrade and other related activities remotely from offshore center. Work with client to prepare new requirements for enhancements and upgrade. Participate in stakeholders meeting to get approval for new build requirements/specifications.

Ensured all deliverable are within accepted timelines and quality measures. Participate in domain training and also conduct knowledge sharing sessions. Validated the new build in certification domain before moving changes to productions environment. Lead the team to ensure diverse knowledge across various tracks is shared. Assign build change task and maintenance tasks requests in Prod domains to team and perform QR. Work towards building reusable assets in the Healthcare Testing and support of US Cerner clients. Prepare weekly status report, chair and attend weekly meetings to share weekly status with all the stake holders.

As a Cerner millennium application expert in the consulting team. I did provide comprehensive functionality building steps to vendor, and suggest the best usage protocol of the application aligned with the current client practice. I was acting as a bridge between vendor and client to provide best solutions to the existing practice. Had given advise to connected teams and client counterparts on the questions related to physician and home health modules. Effectively contributed to the definition, design and enhancements of Cerner CIS system. Participated in scope reviewing for assessing functional areas of Cerner Millennium system. Identified and mapped the specialty workflows for EMR. As a Cerner Application Analyst on this delivery team, I provided expertise in the Ambulatory & inpatient physician element of the solution and its integration to all parts of the hospitals solution. Collaborating with hospitals to manage the definition of accurate requirements, implementation timelines, project plans, testing and training for Cerner Implementations. Providing input into local design decisions and build responsibilities for their solution/module. Advising client on larger scale impact and strategy around the use of applications; Maintaining an awareness of developments in the Healthcare IT industry that may provide future functionality or cost benefit to the client; Developed clinical application road map specific to client needs.

1) Designed test plans, developed test accounts, coordinated test schedules, documented test defects and coordinated code correction. 2) Identified the requirements for outpatient, inpatient and clinics EMR templates. 3) Designed, developed and evaluated training materials. 4) Participated in training of Nurses, Pharmacists, Physicians, Patient Care Associates, and Unit Clerks on CIS applications in HMC and PHCC, Qatar.5) Provided go live support for the implementation of the Cerner Electronic Patient Record in HMC hospitals and PHCC clinics in Qatar. 6) Functional analysis of the HMC and PHCC CIS (clinical information system) solutions and mapping with the functional test cases to validate the functionalities coverage in testing. 7) Designed User Acceptance Test Scripts for the customer with respect to the workflows designed by the Clinical Transformation team. 8) Reviewing of the Functional Test Scripts from vendor on behalf of Customer. 9) Involved in test planning activities like estimation, monitoring and controlling of UAT. 10) Performed User Acceptance Testing of the CIS Solution on behalf of customer by executing the test scripts designed as per workflows in ALM (HP-QC). 11) Worked on PharmNet (Inpatient, outpatient and Supply chain), Infusion Management, Charge Services, PowerChart, FirstNet, SurgiNet and other third party software’s (Gettinge, Medicom, Mycare etc.).

Motivating team members to achieve good results. Handling new client issues and acting as the point of contact for couple of applications (Solutions). Involved in the recruitment of new associates. Praise team members and creates a positive working environment. Ensuring all administrative and IT records are entered and updated correctly. Providing prompt and accurate information on individual performance. Successfully managed various projects to upgrade Cerner Clinical Information System in multiple US and UAE hospitals. Identified and captured clinician’s requirements, and translated them into formal specifications for Cerner CIS upgrade. Participated in scope reviewing and to assessing of functional areas of Cerner CIS system. Planning daily workloads for direct reports & coordinating the daily allocation of work. Handling new client issues and acting as the point of contact for clinical and peri operative applications. Dealing with and resolving problems and issues which arise. Mentoring and training up junior and new associates. Monitoring & reporting on standards & performance targets. Arranging & chairing weekly team meetings and one on one’s, focusing on targets & achievements. Implementing new initiatives. Provided support for go lives and performed evaluation afterwards. Performed clinical information system training to all levels of staff.

1) As an Application Lead my responsibilities were to delivering quality deliverable in upgrade testing for solutions under my scope and coordinating with other associates in the team to make sure the project is completed on time. 2) Working with different stakeholders to fix the issue whenever the team encounters showstopper issues. 3) Test Execution and reporting issues to US counterparts. 4) Mentoring and training up junior and new associates. 5) And also performed all the task mentioned below in Sr Analyst role.

1) Performed Manual test case execution in Client domains (Environments) when client was upgrading from old code level to new code level. 2) Performed Domain validation, Up time testing, Regression and Defect test scripts execution in client production like domains ( Mock and Cert). 3) Trouble shooting client logged issues to provide possible resolutions. 4) Primary focus was on PowerChart and PCO solutions along with secondary solutions like PCOR and CVNet. 5) Provide Go live support to clients while upgrading production domain and trouble shoot issues which are encountered by end users during upgrade process. 6) Point of contact for the workflow and technical solutions for carenet modules. 7) Collaborative work with US team on Test execution and trouble shooting issues. 8) Maintaining and tracking issues tracking spreadsheet of PowerChart Solution. 9) Coaching as a mentor for new joiners. 10) Performed build changes in non prod and prod domains (Environments) during client go live. 11) Won excellence award (NOT) for good performance throughout the year.

1) Started working in Upgrade Center as Analyst (Delivery Consultant) in July 2007. 2) Performed Manual test cases execution in Client domains (Production like Environment) when client was upgrading from old code level to new code level. 3) Performed Domain validation, up time testing, regression and defect test execution in client production like domains ( Mock and Cert). 4) Trouble shooting client logged issues to provide possible resolutions. 5) Primary focus was on PowerChart and PCO solutions. 6) Point of contact for the workflow and technical solutions for few of the carenet modules. 7) Involved in upgrade projects of more than 100 clients in this period. 8) Involved in knowledge transfer sessions to new joiners.