Dr. Rick May, Senior Principal at Vizient Inc shares about focusing on the Right Data to help drive Quality at the Source

: Rick May,MD, Senior Principal, Orthopedic Surgeon.  Rick bringsover 20 years of experience in the health care industry. His areas of expertiseand professional skills include creating clinical quality improvement programsfor hospitals and physician groups, clinical supply integration strategy,service line optimization, and building actionable solutions to clinicalchallenges using health care data and analytics. Among his key achievements andaccomplishments, Rick achieved 30-60 percent reductions in hospital mortalityand complications by implementing evidence-based best practice systems at multiplehospitals. He has delivered over 1,000 presentations on health care quality andvalue to thousands of physicians, nurses, hospital staff and executive teams. Prior to joining Vizient, Rick worked for almost 20 years asan orthopedic surgeon in Denver specializing in general orthopedics and orthotrauma surgery. He ran the orthopedic trauma programs at four Denver-areahospitals. Rick worked for over 10 years with Ascent Clinical QualityImprovement and Healthgrades as the leader of their clinical qualityimprovement consulting teams. In these roles, he worked with over 100 U.S.hospitals on clinical quality improvement projects in multiple clinical areasincluding orthopedic and spine surgery, CT surgery, heart failure, sepsis,stroke, pneumonia and surgical perioperative optimization. He is a frequentspeaker in the areas of quality, data analytics and clinical qualityimprovement. Previously, he served as senior medical director at PinnacolAssurance, Colorado’s largest workers’ compensation insurance carrier. Rick ledall of Pinnacol’s clinical data analytics and program development related toimproving care for injured workers. Prior to starting clinical practice, Rick completed graduatework in advanced mathematics, analytics and biostatistics. He also worked as aresearcher and computer programmer for NASA in the Life Sciences Division atthe Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release dateContact [email protected] if you have any questions about claiming credit.