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 brings over 20 years of experience in the health care industry. His areas of expertise and professional skills include creating clinical quality improvement programs for hospitals and physician groups, clinical supply integration strategy, service line optimization, and building actionable solutions to clinical challenges using health care data and analytics. Among his key achievements and accomplishments, Rick achieved 30-60 percent reductions in hospital mortality and complications by implementing evidence-based best practice systems at multiple hospitals. He has delivered over 1,000 presentations on health care quality and value to thousands of physicians, nurses, hospital staff and executive teams. Prior to joining Vizient, Rick worked for almost 20 years as an orthopedic surgeon in Denver specializing in general orthopedics and ortho trauma surgery. He ran the orthopedic trauma programs at four Denver-area hospitals. Rick worked for over 10 years with Ascent Clinical Quality Improvement and Healthgrades as the leader of their clinical quality improvement consulting teams. In these roles, he worked with over 100 U.S. hospitals on clinical quality improvement projects in multiple clinical areas including orthopedic and spine surgery, CT surgery, heart failure, sepsis, stroke, pneumonia and surgical perioperative optimization. He is a frequent speaker in the areas of quality, data analytics and clinical quality improvement. Previously, he served as senior medical director at Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s largest workers’ compensation insurance carrier. Rick led all of Pinnacol’s clinical data analytics and program development related to improving care for injured workers. Prior to starting clinical practice, Rick completed graduate work in advanced mathematics, analytics and biostatistics. He also worked as a researcher and computer programmer for NASA in the Life Sciences Division at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3 CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release date Contact [email protected] if you have any questions about claiming credit.