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Katherine Rowell
Chief Operating Officer and EVP, QC Metrix
Kathy has worked in the healthcare industry for more than 20 years, developing expertise in a number of areas including clinical outcomes, quality management and healthcare operations and policy. She applies this knowledge at QCMetrix by overseeing the management of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) in the private sector, partnering with site’s to leverage the newest technologies to present and analyze data and through her consulting relationships to participating hospitals for clinical performance improvement and information technology development. Her recent experience includes working at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center with the Surgical Outcomes Assessment Program (SOAP) to develop a continuous quality improvement model using risk-adjusted outcomes. That work led her to be recruited by the Mass General Hospital where she helped to establish the Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery (CCES). Kathy also serves as a consultant and advisor to the Partners Healthcare System in Boston, MA helping the organization and its member hospitals to capture, understand and implement change in their surgery departments. Other recent work includes serving as an advisor to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation as they begin the establishment of their surgical outcomes center and surgical outcomes information systems. She is a frequent speaker at Surgical Grand Rounds and at conferences for healthcare administrators and policymakers and has published several articles and abstracts.
Her academic credentials include two Masters degrees, one in the Evaluative and Clinical Sciences from Dartmouth Medical School and the other in Health Administration from the University of New Hampshire.
To view more of Kathy’s work and information about the ACS NSQIP you may wish to visit the following websites: QCMetrix Inc.: www.qcmetrix.com;
Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery:
www.massgeneral.org/surgery/cces/mission/; American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) www.acsnsqip.org.
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