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Debora Simmons, PhD, RN, CCNS, has a significant history of commitment to the delivery of safe and reliable healthcare by application of evidence-based interventions. Her expertise and accomplishments bridge technology, clinical, and regulatory imperatives for healthcare. Her contributions to electronic health records have focused on usability, implementation, data analysis and meaningful use.
Debora’s past experience has focused on quality, safety and efficacy in healthcare. She is proficient at developing and implementing performance improvement programs, as well as, programs to meet regulatory compliance. In her last role, she was successful in strategic planning for quality programs and reporting, along with achieving $15M in meaningful use incentives and lead ISO certification for all system hospitals. She has lead a highly successful performance improvement program for physicians at a large academic medical center, created a technology enabled complex congestive heart failure management program and taught on multiple levels in academic and healthcare settings. She has served in leadership roles that include Chief Quality Officer for a large healthcare system and complex Federal research programs including the Strategic Healthcare Advanced Research program for the Office of the National Coordinator for Technology and safety expert review for the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Dr. Simmons has served on the United States Pharmacopeia Safe Medications Use Expert Committee since 2005. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Safe Medication Practices. In 2011, she received the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects Grants and Programs Management Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She serves on the Board of the Healthcare Diversity Council. Her research presently focuses on safety in electronic healthcare systems.
