Kylie Higgins has over 15 years of experience in IT, business analysis, and project management. She has worked in both government and commercial sectors. Her experience includes concept development, stakeholder engagement, software development, database design, and project management. Currently she works as a senior business analyst at SA Power Networks where she works on multiple projects involving internal IT, external suppliers, and business areas.
Choosing the Right Document Processing Solution for Healthcare OrganizationsProvectus
Looking to automate document processing in your healthcare organization? Learn from Provectus & AWS experts how to make data capture, conversion, and analytics more efficient. Process and manage documents faster and on a larger scale with AI & Machine Learning.
In this presentation, we offer management and engineering perspectives on document processing with AI, to help you explore available options. Whether you are looking for a ready-made solution or plan to build a custom solution of your own, this webinar will help you find the best fit for your healthcare use cases.
I am a customer focused technical resource who is seeking full time employment in the greater Atlanta area. I am a problem solver with a proven record for success.
Choosing the Right Document Processing Solution for Healthcare OrganizationsProvectus
Looking to automate document processing in your healthcare organization? Learn from Provectus & AWS experts how to make data capture, conversion, and analytics more efficient. Process and manage documents faster and on a larger scale with AI & Machine Learning.
In this presentation, we offer management and engineering perspectives on document processing with AI, to help you explore available options. Whether you are looking for a ready-made solution or plan to build a custom solution of your own, this webinar will help you find the best fit for your healthcare use cases.
I am a customer focused technical resource who is seeking full time employment in the greater Atlanta area. I am a problem solver with a proven record for success.
How to Load Data More Quickly and Accurately into Oracle's Life Sciences Data...Perficient, Inc.
Sponsors and CROs know the value of having a consolidated and regulatory-compliant data warehouse, such as Oracle’s Life Sciences Data Hub (LSH), as well as the importance of consistently loading data into that warehouse quickly and accurately.
However, as data structures from the source files change over time, it can be very time consuming to modify the data structure in the warehouse itself. Additionally, for the large groups of SAS datasets that are typical for a clinical trial, the out-of-the-box load times can be quite long, as the data is loaded one set at a time.
Perficient has the answer. In this webinar, we discussed and demonstrated an autoloader tool that greatly simplifies the data loading process for LSH. We showed how the autoloader can automatically load files, detect metadata changes, upgrade target structures, and load data, all with no human intervention. In addition, we demonstrated how Perficient’s autoloader tool can load multiple datasets in parallel to minimize load times.
HySynth Clinical Data Repository is used for storing, integrating ,managing and reporting on clinical studies.
It enables pooling of clinical and nonclinical data from multiple sources into a single environment. Better regulatory compliance with comprehensive security, an audit trail, and traceability, More-informed decision-making through pooling and analysis of clinical and nonclinical data
CDR has been developed to revolutionize ability to:
- Address complex health authority questions quickly and completely
- Produce CDISC compliant submissions
- Review safety data in real-time, mine our overall database for scientific and commercial queries
At HySynth provide,
- Business case development and cost analysis
- Requirements and design management
- Best practice analysis and recommendations
- Installation and configuration
- Oracle CDA and LSH pilots and proofs of concept
- Hosting
- Oracle CDA and LSH implementation
- CDA and LSH validation
- CDA and LSH training
- CDA and LSH extension development
LST on the following applications
- Argus Safety Suite
- Oracle Clinical / Remote Data Capture (RDC) /
- Thesaurus Management System (TMS)
- Oracle Inform EDC / Central Designer / Central Coding
- Life Sciences Data Hub (LSH)
- Oracle Data Management Workbench (DMW)
- Oracle Clinical Development Analytics (CDA)
- Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS)
- SAS
How to Use Open Source Technologies in Safety-critical Medical Device PlatformsShahid Shah
There is a great deal of fear and angst in the medical device vendor community about the use open source in safety-critical products. This presentation provides advice on why the fear is misplaced and how to proceed with using open source in safety-critical medical devices.
Combining Patient Records, Genomic Data and Environmental Data to Enable Tran...Perficient, Inc.
The average academic research organization (ARO) and hospital has many systems that house patient-related information, such as patient records and genomic data. Combining data from a variety of sources in an ongoing manner can enable complex and meaningful querying, reporting and analysis for the purposes of improving patient safety and care, boosting operational efficiency, and supporting personalized medicine initiatives.
In this webinar, Perficient’s Mike Grossman, a director of clinical data warehousing and analytics, and Martin Sizemore, a healthcare strategist, discussed:
-How AROs and hospitals can benefit from a systematic approach to combining data from diverse systems and utilizing a suite of data extraction, reporting, and analytical tools, in order to support a wide variety of needs and requests
-Examples of proposed solutions to real-life challenges AROs and hospitals often encounter
Access the webinar: http://goo.gl/p08pTz
These slides were presented in a webinar by Denodo in collaboration with BioStorage Technologies and Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and Regenstrief Institute.
BioStorage Technologies, Inc., Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and Regenstrief Institute (CTSI) have joined Denodo to talk about the important role of technological advancements, such as data virtualization, in advancing biospecimen research.
By watching this webinar, you can gain insight into best practices around the integration of biospecimen and research data as well as technology solutions that provide consolidated views and rapid conversions of this data into valuable business insights. You will also learn how data virtualization can assist with the integration of data residing in heterogeneous repositories and can securely deliver aggregated data in real-time.
Reasons Why Health Data is Poorly Integrated Today and What We Can Do About ItShahid Shah
Presented at the 3rd Annual Open Source EHR Summit - Key takeaways:
* Any enterprise app which acts like a consumer app that doesn’t integrate well into hospital or ambulatory systems and workflows is doomed
* There’s nothing unique about health IT data that justifies complex, expensive, or special technology.
* There’s a lot unique about healthcare workflows that require common technologies to be adapted properly.
Our Journey to Release a Patient-Centric AI App to Reduce Public Health CostsDatabricks
Health costs are exploding year by year. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence it is possible to address patient needs in a cost-efficient manner.
In the case we will present, we will demonstrate how as part of a telemedicine service we implemented a solution allowing to reduce triage cost of patients by leveraging AI. The app we developed not only allowed to reduce cost but is significantly improving the patient experience.
Architecting, designing and building medical devices in an outcomes focused B...Shahid Shah
Keeping your medical device designs relevant in an era of value based and outcome driven care is not easy. In this talk, I cover the following topics:
* “Connected EHRs”, device interoperability, and “Accountable Tech” are the future of med devices
* Hardware, sensors, and software are transient businesses but data lives forever. He who owns, integrates, and uses data wins in the end.
* Data from devices is too important and specialized to be left to software vendors, managed service providers, and system integrators.
HxRefactored: Stop dreaming about fluid data interoperability and start focus...Shahid Shah
This was presented at Health 2.0's HxRefactored 2014 Conference in Brooklyn.
Background:
* Many enterprise apps are being built these days, but most are designed to work as a stand alone system similar to consumer apps
* Healthcare-specific software engineering and integration tools are going to do more harm than good (industry-neutral is better).
Key Takeaways:
* Any enterprise app which acts like a consumer app that doesn’t integrate well into hospital or ambulatory systems and workflows is doomed
* There’s nothing unique about health IT data that justifies complex, expensive, or special technology.
* There’s a lot unique about healthcare workflows that require common technologies to be adapted properly.
Late Binding in Data Warehouses: Desiging for Analytic AgilityHealth Catalyst
Listen to Part 2 of the Late-Binding (TM) Data Warehouse webinar, a separate webinar focused on answering detailed follow-up questions generated from the first Late-Binding (TM) Data Warehouse webinar.
Big Data Analytics for Healthcare Decision Support- Operational and ClinicalAdrish Sannyasi
Splunk’s data analytics platform could be utilized to solve many high impact business problems in healthcare delivery systems to reduce cost, improve patient outcome and safety, and enhance care coordination experience. Analyze observed behavior from healthcare event data and metadata to discover patterns, monitor compliance, and optimize the workflow. Furthermore 80% of healthcare data is unstructured (clinical free text and documentation), or semi-structured and many new data sources are such as tele health, mobile health, sensors, and devices are getting integrated in many healthcare systems specifically in the area of chronic disease management. So, one need analytics software that can harvest, interpret, enrich, normalize, and model diverse structured and unstructured data and analytics approaches that embrace the “data turmoil” by relying less on standardized data items and more on the capability to process data in any format.
How to Load Data More Quickly and Accurately into Oracle's Life Sciences Data...Perficient, Inc.
Sponsors and CROs know the value of having a consolidated and regulatory-compliant data warehouse, such as Oracle’s Life Sciences Data Hub (LSH), as well as the importance of consistently loading data into that warehouse quickly and accurately.
However, as data structures from the source files change over time, it can be very time consuming to modify the data structure in the warehouse itself. Additionally, for the large groups of SAS datasets that are typical for a clinical trial, the out-of-the-box load times can be quite long, as the data is loaded one set at a time.
Perficient has the answer. In this webinar, we discussed and demonstrated an autoloader tool that greatly simplifies the data loading process for LSH. We showed how the autoloader can automatically load files, detect metadata changes, upgrade target structures, and load data, all with no human intervention. In addition, we demonstrated how Perficient’s autoloader tool can load multiple datasets in parallel to minimize load times.
HySynth Clinical Data Repository is used for storing, integrating ,managing and reporting on clinical studies.
It enables pooling of clinical and nonclinical data from multiple sources into a single environment. Better regulatory compliance with comprehensive security, an audit trail, and traceability, More-informed decision-making through pooling and analysis of clinical and nonclinical data
CDR has been developed to revolutionize ability to:
- Address complex health authority questions quickly and completely
- Produce CDISC compliant submissions
- Review safety data in real-time, mine our overall database for scientific and commercial queries
At HySynth provide,
- Business case development and cost analysis
- Requirements and design management
- Best practice analysis and recommendations
- Installation and configuration
- Oracle CDA and LSH pilots and proofs of concept
- Hosting
- Oracle CDA and LSH implementation
- CDA and LSH validation
- CDA and LSH training
- CDA and LSH extension development
LST on the following applications
- Argus Safety Suite
- Oracle Clinical / Remote Data Capture (RDC) /
- Thesaurus Management System (TMS)
- Oracle Inform EDC / Central Designer / Central Coding
- Life Sciences Data Hub (LSH)
- Oracle Data Management Workbench (DMW)
- Oracle Clinical Development Analytics (CDA)
- Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS)
- SAS
How to Use Open Source Technologies in Safety-critical Medical Device PlatformsShahid Shah
There is a great deal of fear and angst in the medical device vendor community about the use open source in safety-critical products. This presentation provides advice on why the fear is misplaced and how to proceed with using open source in safety-critical medical devices.
Combining Patient Records, Genomic Data and Environmental Data to Enable Tran...Perficient, Inc.
The average academic research organization (ARO) and hospital has many systems that house patient-related information, such as patient records and genomic data. Combining data from a variety of sources in an ongoing manner can enable complex and meaningful querying, reporting and analysis for the purposes of improving patient safety and care, boosting operational efficiency, and supporting personalized medicine initiatives.
In this webinar, Perficient’s Mike Grossman, a director of clinical data warehousing and analytics, and Martin Sizemore, a healthcare strategist, discussed:
-How AROs and hospitals can benefit from a systematic approach to combining data from diverse systems and utilizing a suite of data extraction, reporting, and analytical tools, in order to support a wide variety of needs and requests
-Examples of proposed solutions to real-life challenges AROs and hospitals often encounter
Access the webinar: http://goo.gl/p08pTz
These slides were presented in a webinar by Denodo in collaboration with BioStorage Technologies and Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and Regenstrief Institute.
BioStorage Technologies, Inc., Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and Regenstrief Institute (CTSI) have joined Denodo to talk about the important role of technological advancements, such as data virtualization, in advancing biospecimen research.
By watching this webinar, you can gain insight into best practices around the integration of biospecimen and research data as well as technology solutions that provide consolidated views and rapid conversions of this data into valuable business insights. You will also learn how data virtualization can assist with the integration of data residing in heterogeneous repositories and can securely deliver aggregated data in real-time.
Reasons Why Health Data is Poorly Integrated Today and What We Can Do About ItShahid Shah
Presented at the 3rd Annual Open Source EHR Summit - Key takeaways:
* Any enterprise app which acts like a consumer app that doesn’t integrate well into hospital or ambulatory systems and workflows is doomed
* There’s nothing unique about health IT data that justifies complex, expensive, or special technology.
* There’s a lot unique about healthcare workflows that require common technologies to be adapted properly.
Our Journey to Release a Patient-Centric AI App to Reduce Public Health CostsDatabricks
Health costs are exploding year by year. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence it is possible to address patient needs in a cost-efficient manner.
In the case we will present, we will demonstrate how as part of a telemedicine service we implemented a solution allowing to reduce triage cost of patients by leveraging AI. The app we developed not only allowed to reduce cost but is significantly improving the patient experience.
Architecting, designing and building medical devices in an outcomes focused B...Shahid Shah
Keeping your medical device designs relevant in an era of value based and outcome driven care is not easy. In this talk, I cover the following topics:
* “Connected EHRs”, device interoperability, and “Accountable Tech” are the future of med devices
* Hardware, sensors, and software are transient businesses but data lives forever. He who owns, integrates, and uses data wins in the end.
* Data from devices is too important and specialized to be left to software vendors, managed service providers, and system integrators.
HxRefactored: Stop dreaming about fluid data interoperability and start focus...Shahid Shah
This was presented at Health 2.0's HxRefactored 2014 Conference in Brooklyn.
Background:
* Many enterprise apps are being built these days, but most are designed to work as a stand alone system similar to consumer apps
* Healthcare-specific software engineering and integration tools are going to do more harm than good (industry-neutral is better).
Key Takeaways:
* Any enterprise app which acts like a consumer app that doesn’t integrate well into hospital or ambulatory systems and workflows is doomed
* There’s nothing unique about health IT data that justifies complex, expensive, or special technology.
* There’s a lot unique about healthcare workflows that require common technologies to be adapted properly.
Late Binding in Data Warehouses: Desiging for Analytic AgilityHealth Catalyst
Listen to Part 2 of the Late-Binding (TM) Data Warehouse webinar, a separate webinar focused on answering detailed follow-up questions generated from the first Late-Binding (TM) Data Warehouse webinar.
Big Data Analytics for Healthcare Decision Support- Operational and ClinicalAdrish Sannyasi
Splunk’s data analytics platform could be utilized to solve many high impact business problems in healthcare delivery systems to reduce cost, improve patient outcome and safety, and enhance care coordination experience. Analyze observed behavior from healthcare event data and metadata to discover patterns, monitor compliance, and optimize the workflow. Furthermore 80% of healthcare data is unstructured (clinical free text and documentation), or semi-structured and many new data sources are such as tele health, mobile health, sensors, and devices are getting integrated in many healthcare systems specifically in the area of chronic disease management. So, one need analytics software that can harvest, interpret, enrich, normalize, and model diverse structured and unstructured data and analytics approaches that embrace the “data turmoil” by relying less on standardized data items and more on the capability to process data in any format.
Ponencia de la sesión 3 sobre innovación y transferencia de resultados en el marco de las XII Jornadas Salud Investiga celebradas el 28 de noviembre de 2016 en Málaga.
Trabajo: 'Innovación en Salud en Andalucía' de Ramón González Carvajal. Secretario General de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación en Salud. Consejería de Salud. Junta de Andalucía.
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Curriculum Vitae - Kylie Higgins
15 Williams Avenue, Dulwich, 5065 | 0416 087 123
kylie_higgins@hotmail.com
Profile
Highly skilled in concept development, business analysis and stakeholder engagement.
Highly experienced IT professional across the full software development lifecycle.
Experience with LIIMS and HL7. Performed business analysis to transfer LIIMS data from
Gribbles HL7 system into state government database for Biosecurity (animal health).
Business case development, business analysis and design of systems that interface with
external suppliers and internal systems to improve business processes.
Project management including projects requiring inputs from internal ICT & external suppliers.
Extensive experience with state government, commercial laboratories, animal health,
agriculture, emergency management, animal and human public health and utilities.
Training
Agile Fundamentals Ajilon 2016
Train the Trainer Certificate IV AIM 2014
Diploma of Government (Management) Oz Train 2013
Contract Management / Auditing Training 2004
Object Orientated Programming with C++ UTS, Sydney 1994
Education
Grad Dip. – Veterinary Public Health Management University of Sydney 2010
Bachelor of Veterinary Science University of Sydney 2002
B. of App Science: Computer Science, Operations Research UTS, Sydney 1992
Skills
Business Analysis 15 years Project Management 5 years
Database Design & Analysis 15 years Software Development 15 years
Oracle, PL/SQL 10 years C / Pro*C 2 years
LIIMS (HL7) 7 years PHP/MySQL 3 years
Contract Management 4 years Requirements Specifications 4 years
SharePoint 2013, 2010, 2007 2 years Crystal Reports 5 years
UNIX Systems Administration 3 years Software Testing 5 years
EmploymentHistory
SAPN, Adelaide October 2015 - current
Senior Business Analyst
I am currently working as a senior business analyst across multiple projects from all areas of the
business at SA Power Networks (formerly ETSA). I typically work on 3-4 projects at a time. I am a
member of the business analyst team. Project work involves working closely with a project manager
and stakeholders from the relevant business areas.
SAPN is a large organisation with distinct business areas. I engage with project sponsors who are
senior managers within the organisation, Subject Matter Experts with detailed technical knowledge
(often engineers), IT experts and general users.
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Achievements
Development of business requirements for Identity and Access Management using
SailPoint Identity IQ.
Data analysis and audit of the 16,000 MS Access database files on the SAPN network
drives.
Business analyst / product owner on Agile business intelligence project.
Development of Business Requirements for the upgrade of Autodesk Vault Software.
McGirr Technology, Adelaide June -September 2015
Business Analyst
I worked in Adelaide for McGirr Technology; a software company based in Sydney. I worked with
the Adelaide based Project Manager and Sydney based Business Analyst as a consultant to
provide business analysis and testing services to the Adelaide based client. The role included
providing onsite support to internal business analysts, helpdesk operators and testers.
Achievements
Forming effective working relationships with internal clients in a short space of time.
Analysis of business requirements to develop clear specifications for the client and internal
developers.
Development of comprehensive test plans.
Conducting a high volume of testing to meet project deadlines.
Origin Energy, Adelaide (short term contract) March 2014
SharePoint Consultant
Working with the digital content manager and business analyst to optimise internal human
resources’ SharePoint site prior to release. Stakeholder engagement, providing input on content
and optimisation of site appearance using SharePoint 2007 tools and HTML.
Achievements
Development of strong relationships with key stakeholders in a short period of time.
Ability to interpret loose requirements and identify areas needing improvement to make the
site both visually appealing and functional in alignment with company standards.
Technology
SharePoint 2007 HTML
Zoos SA, Adelaide 6 month contract July 2014 – January 2015
Business Analysis / SharePoint Development
Adelaide and Monarto Zoos’ have a small ICT team. The SharePoint Analyst/Developer works
independently on projects reporting directly to the ICT manager. The purpose of the role was to
develop internal SharePoint sites to facilitate improved business processes within the zoo.
Achievements
Successful completion of a project to allow zoo keepers to record their daily animal
observations in SharePoint.
Engagement with the with the key stakeholder (the animal records officer) to determine
business requirements.
Analysing the international Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS) to ensure that
Zoos SA data is compatible with this database.
Technology
SharePoint 2013
Nintex Workflow
SharePoint Designer
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Microsoft Excel
Primary Industries & Regions SA (PIRSA), Adelaide 2004 – 2014
Business Analyst / Project Manager, Emergency Management 2009 to
June 2014
The BioSIRT Administrator is a member of the Emergency Management team within Biosecurity SA.
BioSIRT is the national emergency management software used by the states. There are six members
of the emergency management team. The Emergency Management Team is part of Biosecurity SA
consisting of approximately one hundred staff.
I participated in emergency disease exercises where the software was used providing support in use
of the software and dealing with technical issues. Provided support during emergency responses.
Developed reports for stakeholders using Crystal Reports; analysed data using Oracle. Obtained
quotes, performed testing and managed projects for national software upgrades and upgrade projects
specific to PIRSA. Worked as a member of the national BioSIRT development committee to determine
priorities for bug fixes and enhancements; performed testing as part of the national team.
Achievements
Maintenance, user support and upgrades of MS Access / VBA applications.
Created the business case to upgrade the ETL process for loading property data from our
internal property system (Oracle spatial) into BioSIRT.
Performed the business analysis, developed the requirements specification and successfully
managed the project to upgrade this ETL process.
Managed internal ICT staff and the external software vendor during the ETL upgrade.
Produced quality documentation of the current state of the BioSIRT application including
software, hardware, users and backups.
Designed, organised and ran well received training sessions for staff from plant health, animal
health and aquaculture on the BioSIRT application.
Technology
Oracle 10.2.03
Oracle spatials, materialised views
Crystal Reports for eclipse
MS Access, VBA
Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word
Apache Tomcat
MapServer, GeoServer
Network configuration, VPN
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Outlook
Data Analyst, Disease Surveillance 2008
The disease surveillance team consists of approximately ten staff. The data analyst disease
surveillance reports to the manager of the disease surveillance team. This team is a part of
Biosecurity SA which has approximately one hundred staff.
Analysis of data using veterinary, statistical and epidemiological knowledge. Epidemiology is the
study of disease in populations. Tools utilised to perform this analysis included MS Access / Visual
Basic, Crystal Reports and R (a statistical and mapping software package).
Achievements
Development of a Microsoft Access / Visual Basic application to allow veterinarians to record
and report on data relating to the health of sheep (maiden ewes).
Improved the design of an existing MS Access database which records data reported by
abattoirs. Created complex SQL queries to extract information from this database according
to user requirements. Coached staff in the proper use and management of their MS Access
database.
Designed reports that PIRSA is required to deliver nationally using Crystal Reports software.
Technology
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Microsoft Access
Visual Basic
R statistical language
Crystal Reports
Laboratory Liaison – Contract Manager 2004 - 2008
The laboratory liaison works with the laboratory contract manager to manage the contract between
PIRSA and the private laboratory that provides animal laboratory testing to the state government.
The laboratory liaison and laboratory contract manager are a part of Biosecurity SA.
Understanding of the business of animal health: disease surveillance, disease control programs and
emergency disease responses. Understanding of the operation of the private laboratory including
data formats used (HL7), invoicing and laboratory testing. Resolution of disputes to achieve a win-
win outcome or change business processes so that the same error won’t be repeated.
Achievements
Concept, design and development of an MS Access / VBA application to receive,
automatically check and process monthly billing and result data from the laboratory. This
software is still being used by the organisation.
Analysis of test volume data and costs across projects from the MS Access database to
inform negotiation of contract and project prices for animal health.
Performed significant stakeholder analysis to automate business processes relating to
laboratory results data. Developed requirements specification for ICT to undertake the
required work.
Technology
Microsoft Access
Visual Basic
HL7
Oracle
DAC Accounting 2006
Web Development
Achievements
Used PHP/MySQL to manage membership of the accounting website.
Members of the website gain access to restricted pages.
Used PHP/MySQL to process credit card payments via interface with major bank.
Designed MySQL database to record member information.
User interface design
Technology
PHP / MySQL / Apache Tomcat
HTML / CSS
Apache Tomcat
Dreamweaver
Torrens Road Veterinary Clinic January 2003 – April 2004
Veterinarian
Consultation, surgery and relationship building with clients.
Preparation of quotes for surgery and hospitalisation.
Design of standard forms to be used in the practice.
Developing content for the clinics website.
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Parcelforce, Farnborough, UK (12 month contract) 1998 - 1999
UNIX Systems Administrator and Pro*C/Oracle Developer
Reuters, London, UK (3 month contract) 1998
Operations
Energy Australia 1990 - 1997
Geographic Information Systems – ESRI / ArcInfo / aml
Business Analyst / Developer (Rexx, SQL database - mainframe)
Full cadetship for final year of Computer Science degree