HUMAN RESOURCE NETWORK
Herb Barnes:
Herb Barnes is an industrial engineer with a masters in hospital administration, with consulting and project management experience in the Caribbean, Mexico and the Middle East. He has thirty five years of experience in management consulting and advising in both the public and private health sectors in Canada and internationally. He has many contacts in both the public and private sector from his Canadian and international assignments. Mr. Barnes also provides project management services to meet the diverse health information and human resource needs of developing countries. International Assignments
MIDDLE EAST Commissioning of Sheikh Khalifa Medical Centre (SKMC) – Abu Dhabi, UAE
Mr. Barnes was responsible for setting up a computerized Materials Management Department including staff selection, orientation and training, development of job descriptions and procedure manuals. He successfully prepared the Materials Management Department to attain full accretitation standard certificates under the Canadian College of Health Services Association standards. Mr. Barnes was seconded by the General Authority - Abu Dhabi to established similar Materials Management systems in 3 other community hospitals within the Emirate.
EUROPE
Feasibility study to assess computer needs for acute care hospitals in Hungary
Mr Barnes surveyed a number of selectied hospitals to assess the feasibility of setting up a standardized computerized health care system for government-managed hospitals in Budapest.
CARIBBEAN
Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago
Commissioning the Couva District Health Facility
This assignment was funded by the International Development Bank (IDB) to provide consulting assistance for the commissioning of all capital equipment, to develop staffing plans and policy and procedures manuals for the Couva District Health Facility.
Ministry of Health, The British Virgin Islands
Functional Program Tender Specifications
Mr. Barnes drafted the tender documents for bidders for the development of a functional program to replace the city’s ageing hospital, the Kingstown General.
MEXICO
Hospital Santa Fe (HSF)
Mr. Barnes was a member of the project management team at the Hospital Santa Fe (HSF) in Mexico City for the implementation of the Canadian Health Records Abstracting and MIS (Management Information Systems) guidelines and case costing system. The project involved the definition of the hospital management needs, the selection of the Canadian software vendor Med2020, the modification and translation of the software, the installation and integration of the software and the training of the HSF staff. This project was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
Selected Past Accomplishments.
· Mr. Barnes was a contract member in the Program Management Office (PMO) of the Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) project for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. The SSHA project envisioned a comprehensive, electronically stored, client health information, and a wide range of information system applications working together to capture, retrieve and share clinical data in a secure and reliable network environment. The PMO was launched in July 1997 with the purpose of designing and implementing the SSHA network. It started with a business plan. The SSH was approved in 2001 for funding and until 2008 it was an independent agency that operates the network. In 2008, SSHA became e-Health Ontario.
· Mr. Barnes was the sole Canadian distributor for HSMS a USA company based in Seatle WA. HSMS computer products included computerised staff scheduling systems and work load measurement systems. Services included Canada wide marketing, software installation, staff training and support.
Susan Barthos:
Susan Barthos is a change management specialist and the President of Barthos Management Consulting Inc., formed in 1988. She has an undergraduate degree in business administration, an MBA in community economic development, and is a trained mediator and conflict resolution specialist.
Susan focuses on change management for corporations, governments, communities, and non-profit organizations. Her services include strategic planning; project design, management, and evaluation; business analysis, training, process design, and financial reporting; facilitation; research; and report writing.
From a client perspective, Susan fosters interpersonal growth and capacity building through collaborative relationship building. From a values perspective, she believes in social inclusion and in the dignity, worth, and capability of all human beings.
In 2009, following international aid work for Darfur and Ethiopia, Susan incorporated Means To Live Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering pattern-breaking change through local, national, and international social justice initiatives. For more on Susan’s work and beliefs, please visit www.meanstolive.org.
International Assignments
AFRICA
In 2007, Ms. Barthos worked with Earl Shorris, founder of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, on a humanities-based educational project for displaced community leaders living in refugee camps in Darfur. Her research and report writing on the human and economic circumstances in Darfur led to a grant from the Open Society Institute. This funded a collaborative adult education program in Darfur, under the joint direction of the University of Chicago and local Sudanese university instructors.
In 2008, Ms. Barthos volunteered with the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) in Ottawa, twice traveling to rural Ethiopia to train management and staff of a grass-roots economic development agency. Her custom-designed training workshops included strategic planning; human resource management; partnership and alliance building; community mobilization; and micro-enterprise development, management, and financial reporting.
Steve Russell:
Steve Russell is the principal person behind the creation of CHSC and its social responsibility agenda. He has forty years of experience in ICT consulting and advising in both the education and health sectors. He brings together his education, rehabilitation and health care business knowledge with proven product solutions. He has contacts in both the public and private sector from his Canadian and international assignments. He provides business development advice and consults with ICT-based technology solution providers. He provides project management services to meet the diverse health information and human resource needs of developing countries. He is a founding member of Canadian Organization for the Advancement of Computers in Health (COACH).
International Assignments
AFRICA
Mr. Russell recently completed a strategic Information Management (IM) and Informational Communication Technology (ICT) plan for Lacor Hospital, a 500 bed Hospital, in Gulu, Uganda. The study was funded by the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
For a copy of the IM/ICT strategy and transition plan, please contact info@careerhealthsystem.ca
Mr. Russell recently conducted a business viability study to set up a health records management program and office in Ethiopia for a Canadian health care software company, called MED2020. The study involves conducting a country-wide Health Information System (HIS) needs assessment, the development of financial and technical evaluation criteria, the business viability analysis, the coordination of Health Information Management (HIM) training and the application to Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for funding support.
CARIBBEAN
Mr. Russell participated in HIS workshop September 2009, sponsored by the Caribbean Development Bank in Barbados.
Mr. Russell assisted a Canadian vendor, called Heron Technology, to enhance its Patient Administration System (PAS) and to expand its market presence in the Caribbean from Jamaica to Montserrat and Dominica. The work started with a Strength Weakness Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) analysis, followed by a survey of customer needs and then specification of requirements for the development of the new product features and functions to meet the needs to evolve to an Electronic Health Record (EHR). The new product called COMPASS now incorporates a relational data base and interface capabilities to support the evolution of “Best of Breed” application and infrastructure deployment of a country-wide EHR.
MEXICO
Mr. Russell completed the project management at the Hospital Santa Fe (HSF) in Mexico City to implement the Canadian Health Records Abstracting and MIS (Management Information Systems) guidelines and case costing. The project involved the definition of the hospital management needs, the selection of the Canadian software vendor Med2020, the modification and translation of the software, the installation and integration of the software and the training of the HSF staff. It was funded by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
Selected Past Accomplishments.
· Mr. Russell assisted the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in the development of an Information Technology strategic plan that included a regional referral and wait list management system for cardiac referrals.
· Mr. Russell assisted the Canadian Department of National Defense to re-engineer their disability pension application adjudication process and to develop the business case for automation. The project involved reviewing the manual administrative processes of four pension-administrating agencies and identifying process improvement and automation opportunities. The business case recommended options with costs, benefits and risk factors.
· Mr. Russell assisted the City of Toronto Public Health to re-align their Information Technology (IT) to support a co-coordinated approach to the access to services by the public and to deal with disease surveillance due to the SARS outbreak. The amalgamation of 6 public health units with different business practices and levels of automation needed to be analyzed to define common needs, to reduce duplications/delays and to recommend options to improving public access to services deploying both call center and ICT networked technologies.
· Mr. Russell was a contract member in the Program Management Office (PMO) of the Smart Systems for Health (SSH) project for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. The SSH project envisioned a comprehensive, electronically stored, client health information and a wide range of information system applications working together to capture, retrieve and share clinical data in a secure and reliable network environment. The PMO was launched in July 1997 with the purpose of designing and implementing the SSH network. It started with a business plan. The SSH was approved in 2001 for funding and is now an independent agency that operates the network as of April 1, 2003.
· Mr. Russell developed a health management information development program for Anguilla Medical and Health Department in the West Indies. The Business Case and Implementation Plan report was developed that identified application costs and benefits and an implementation plan.
Izabela Wagley:
Izabela Waglay is the principal person behind the www.eeligroup.com a boutique management cousulting firm specializing in business transformation. She has over 30 years experience leading large, multi-national teams on business design, client relationship management and change management initiatives in the telecommunication, energy and health industries.
Management Consulting Experience
· Ms. Waglay providing business design, requirements management, user profile management and change management consulting to one of the leading communications service providers in Canada.
· Ms. Waglay was responsible for providing business design, requirements management, and change management methodology consulting to one of the Canadian Software companies responsible for the implementation of the integrated HIV AIDS Prevention and Control Project in Trinidad and Togago.
· Ms. Waglay built a solid replationship with most of the potential strategic telecominication partners and multiple system integrators in Poland.
· Ms. Waglay managed the delivery of multiple responses to ther RFx and participated in the negotiations of multiple customer services and partnership contracts in both Poland and Russia.
· Ms. Waglay managed multiple implementation programs for both wireline and witeless operators and post implementation support infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe.