Bridget C. Knecht
San Antonio,Texas
Summary
Strategic leader with proven track record in driving organizational success and fostering team collaboration. Adept at developing and implementing high-impact strategies, ensuring operational excellence, and adapting to dynamic business environments. Strong communicator with expertise in project management, financial oversight, and stakeholder engagement, consistently delivering measurable results.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Nursing Informatics Executive
Oracle Health
07.2025 - Current
- Drive end user adoption and resolving implementation challenges
- Optimize workflows using data driven solutions
- Leverage clinical data analytics to support evidence based decision making to contribute to improved patient safety and clinical excellence.
- Act as liaison between clinicians and IT teams, translating complex technical ideas into actionable recommendations
- Established long-term client relationships through consistent delivery of high-quality products and services.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to develop actionable strategies that aligned with VA goals and objectives.
Executive Director and Program Manager - Cerner Support Team
Olathe Medical Center
05.2024 - 07.2025
- Executive Director and Program manager for 36 Cerner Analyst team members.
- Direct and oversee support of all Oracle Cerner systems and applications from Registration through Patient Accounting for continued functionality and domain stability.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to the Cerner domains to ensure minimal disruption to operations and clinical staff.
- Provide ongoing support and maintenance of the Cerner systems, including upgrades, configuration changes, patches, and optimization requests.
- Manage relationships with Cerner and other third-party vendors involved in support and maintenance of the Cerner domains.
- Report directly to the CIO and CMIO
Perioperative Program Manager
University of Tennessee Medical Center
02.2021 - 05.2024
- Surgery Program Manager for the replacement of the GE OR products with Cerner and Lawson tools.
- Managed 7 separate project teams (64 IT Resources) for the implementation of: Cerner Surginet Nursing documentation, Cerner supply chain Integrated Case Pick List, Case Cart Coordinator and Point of Use, Cerner Surgical Scheduling, Lawson Supply Chain, Trackcore Implant Tracking, Cerner Anesthesia documentation, Provation application, LeanTaas clinic scheduling, and all technical hardware deployment for the project across 7 OR and Procedure areas.
- Leverage Scrum project methodology for each portion of the overall surgery project.
- Sprint work includes all cycles of current and future state workflow review and design, application design and build, testing and end user validation.
- Program Manage all sprint project work for the OR and Procedure areas. This included Day Surgery, Ambulatory Surgery, Main OR, PAT, Preop/PACU, Cath Lab, GI, Labor and Delivery, Endovascular, Interventional Radiology locations, all areas for supply chain and material management and all Anesthesia locations.
- Owner of monthly executive Steering Committee meetings
- Direct report to the CIO, CMIO and VP of Perioperative Services
Perioperative Clinical Strategic Partner
University of Southern California
12.2019 - 02.2021
- Clinical Strategic Partner for the Surgery Optimization project, reporting directly to the VP-Executive Director of Perioperative Services.
- Project lifecycle team lead: Managed 7 specific OR teams through the process of mapping historical surgery procedures to AORN Nomenclature, preference card cleanup, Lawson to Cerner item master bi-directional interface work, procedure default updates and prep work for Orders to Scheduling for surgical procedures
- Responsible for the design/sign off of 11 new standard OR workflows across 7 OR locations for process improvement
- Owner of weekly executive Steering Committee meetings with CEO, CIO, IT leadership and Clinical Operations leaders
Clinical Analyst Team Lead, Acute Care
HCA HealthCare - Mission Health System
03.2018 - 12.2019
- Clinical Coordinator for Surgical Informatics Project team
- Project Lifecycle team lead: Manage team through project process of current state/future state review. Workflow design sessions and DCW documentation, build validation, IT Integration testing, end user training and support.
- Manage operation tickets for ambulatory and inpatient surgical teams (JIRA)
- Custom build mpage and iview nursing documentation for 96 bay multi-specialty preop area. Cath lab, Interventional Radiology and Peri Anesthesia nursing.
- Created innovative surgery tracking boards (3) leveraging a custom mpage tracking via Java script that automates the preop communication to anesthesia and surgery team
- Design lead for the system wide Invasive Radiology project. Project included procedure scheduling, custom orders and powerform build (interventional and Neuro Interventional Radiology), creation of an inpatient and outpatient scheduling pool and new regional process for ambulatory PCA practices (98 practices) for scheduling and prior auth.
- Cerner Premier Domain/Custom build
Acute Care Clinical Project Manager
Jupiter Medical Center
09.2017 - 03.2018
- Clinical Project manager for Cerner Model build project for the regional (200 bed) hospital project
- Manage team of 3 JMC Acute care Informatics members, 2 Acute care education team leads and 4 device team members
- Onsite Liaison for Cerner Engagement Leader to assist with meeting timeline and project deliverables
- Cerner subject matter expert for JMC executive team
Clinical Informatics Manager, Ambulatory Informatics
Mission Health System
06.2016 - 09.2017
- Primary Care and Population Health Clinical Manager
- Collaborate with Operations CNO and Primary Care VP to create Standard Operating Procedures for Ambulatory practice optimization
- Lead for all single Physician Practice Implementations at a 90-120 day implementation project timeline leveraging standard existing Cerner build
- Project Manage initiatives related to Executive Team priorities: EHR Optimization, ACO measures, Meaningful Use, and PCMH
- Transformation Lead for ‘Closing the Loop on Referrals’ project.
- Designed a custom Ambulatory Referrals Mpage with 18 Cerner rules that automatically complete ordered referrals and auto communicate back to the ordering provider upon patient appointment check in. Launched mPage at all 95 ambulatory practices.
- Created custom ‘Care Management’ EHR tools to assist with managing care across the continuum for care management and Chronic Condition Clinic. This included custom mPage widgets, Powerforms, ops job rules for creating new encounters per 30-day cycle and new workflow process for care management team
- Leveraged Daptiv for Issue management and operations change control
- Direct report to Executive Director of Informatics
- Premier Cerner Domain
Clinical Project Manager, Ambulatory Informatics
Mission Health System
09.2014 - 06.2016
- Managed Clinical Team for 8 waves of Cerner Powerchart Ambulatory (PCA) implementations:
- -95 Ambulatory Practices
- -465 Ambulatory Providers
- -Multispecialty Practices
- Each wave of go live had a 90-to-120-day timeline.
- Clinical team for each wave included 5-8 implementation team members that worked on Design, Build, Testing, Training and Go live support
- Multispecialty practices implemented with Operations approved standard workflows and build to include: Primary Care, OB/GYN, Surgery, Neurology, Vascular, Interventional Radiology, Vein Specialty, Cardiology, Urgent Care, Oncology and Infectious Disease.
- Assisted executive team in developing an ambulatory change control team and process. Change control requests managed through the main Mission IT ticketing system in Daptiv
- Lead for Weekly status reports to Executive Team
- Lead for Bi-Monthly ambulatory change control meetings
- Responsible for all project implementation work related to Scope, Project Timeline, Resource Allocation, Issue tracking/management, and Conversion Prep.
- Utilized Daptiv and Sharepoint for Issue Management and Change control
Senior Informatics Analyst, Surgery/OB (dual role)
Mission Health Systems
05.2012 - 09.2014
- Project Manage 4 Member hospital SurgiNet Conversions for Transylvania Hospital, Blue Ridge Regional, Angel Medical and Highland Cashiers Hospital. This included managing the Surginet implementation team of 4 members to complete the design and build of Periop scheduling, Periop documentation, procedure build and preference cards creation for all member hospitals.
- Senior Analyst for 4 regional hospitals Powerchart Maternity/Fetalink conversions. Assisted the OB project team during the design/build phase of the maternity solutions to ensure that build was designed around the most appropriate workflows for each regional facility.
- Manage Surgery implementation project plan to include: Design, build, testing, workflow analysis, future state process mapping, education
- Training material creation and delivery for all member hospital surgery nursing staff for standardized training across the region
- Go Live Elbow Support for OR Nursing and Surgeon staff;
- Labor and Delivery go live support at 2 regional facilities
Clinical Strategist, Surgery Informatics
Community Health Systems
10.2011 - 05.2012
- Clinical subject matter expert for conversion prep of large multi-facility Cerner implementation
- Future state workflow design and validation for Surgery Informatics
- Managed Data Collection Worksheets for design specifications
- Integration Testing team lead – Surgery Periop Documentation
- Creation of standard training plan and shared training manual
- At the elbow support for new hire physicians
Nurse Executive/Clinical Lead, Women’s Health/Perioperative
Oracle – Formerly Cerner Corporation
06.2009 - 10.2011
- Successfully led team to deliver 23 Women’s Health Conversions of PowerChart Maternity, FetaLink and Surginet solutions while maintaining budget and timeline of project scope.
- Project Management of solution conversions to include 200+ bed Regional hospitals and up to 600-800+ bed Tertiary Care, Multi-facility Hospital systems.
- Support for client events to include: Project Kickoff, Benefits measurement, training, workflow analysis, conversion readiness assessment, and post conversion support.
- Clinical workflow design analyst for integration/operability to meet core measure requirements and create clinical workflow efficiencies.
- Established and Maintain the Women’s Health Conversion, Clinical Education Curriculum. Included physician and nursing online training modules (WBT’s), WIKI reference pages, training manuals and pocket reference guides. Generating an additional $1 million of billable client service dollars for 2010 and 2011.
- Internal clinical contact for KLAS.
- Clinical liaison for FetaLink.
Advisory Sales Executive, Women’s Health/Perioperative
Oracle – Formerly Cerner Corporation
12.2007 - 06.2009
- Sales and Marketing Lead for the execution of the worldwide launch of Cerner’s PowerChart Maternity/Fetalink solution to existing client pipeline. Included branding, product launch, and marketing plan/execution.
- Creation of the Women’s Health strategic business plans for the competitive displacement of niche systems of GE, Philips, and Hill-Rom’s Women’s Health solutions.
- Developed and Established the Women’s Health Internal Sales Training Program. Introduced unique, client facing sales presentations to deliver state of the art value add solution demonstrations.
- Led core Women’s Health sales team to achieve a 234% sales quota for the first year after product launch of PowerChart Maternity/Fetalink.
- Coordinator of the online UCern, Web Based Sales Toolkit for Women’s Health.
- Development of Key Opinion Leaders for Cerner’s Yearly Health Conference (CHC).
Clinical Manager, Labor and Delivery/Women’s Services OR
IU Health
01.2000 - 01.2007
- Managed 125 Registered Nurses, 24 Ancillary staff and 6 Scrub techs for large 800+ bed, tertiary care, and teaching facility.
- Director of Women’s Health Clinical Practice.
- Led unit to develop the online policy/procedure manual for the facility intranet.
- Clinical educator for yearly competencies of nursing staff.
- Magnet Committee Chair. Women’s Health lead for Magnet submission.
- Women’s Health Implementation lead for the Cerner EMR conversion of PowerChart, Surginet and Anesthesia.
- Subject Matter Expert for design, review, testing, training and conversion support. Training support to include physicians and residency program, nursing, and ancillary staff.
- Managed the start-up of the Women’s Services OR Team. Worked with hospital administration to receive full credentialing for the new service line for Women’s Services.
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
University of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana05.2002
Bachelor of Science - Marketing/Communications
University of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana05.1993
Skills
- Oracle Cerner Healthcare IT Clinical/Project Manager Expert/Transformation lead for large scale implementations
- Workflow design, process flow, clinical adoption, gap analysis, and education specialist
- Daptiv, JIRA, PWA Sharepoint and MethodM experience
- Proficient in MS office and project
- Motivated and Excellent Communicator
- Current Texas RN with 12 years bedside experience in OR, Women’s Health-Labor and Delivery, Ambulatory and Emergency Medicine
Timeline
Lead Nursing Informatics Executive
Oracle Health
07.2025 - Current
Executive Director and Program Manager - Cerner Support Team
Olathe Medical Center
05.2024 - 07.2025
Perioperative Program Manager
University of Tennessee Medical Center
02.2021 - 05.2024
Perioperative Clinical Strategic Partner
University of Southern California
12.2019 - 02.2021
Clinical Analyst Team Lead, Acute Care
HCA HealthCare - Mission Health System
03.2018 - 12.2019
Acute Care Clinical Project Manager
Jupiter Medical Center
09.2017 - 03.2018
Clinical Informatics Manager, Ambulatory Informatics
Mission Health System
06.2016 - 09.2017
Clinical Project Manager, Ambulatory Informatics
Mission Health System
09.2014 - 06.2016
Senior Informatics Analyst, Surgery/OB (dual role)
Mission Health Systems
05.2012 - 09.2014
Clinical Strategist, Surgery Informatics
Community Health Systems
10.2011 - 05.2012
Nurse Executive/Clinical Lead, Women’s Health/Perioperative
Oracle – Formerly Cerner Corporation
06.2009 - 10.2011
Advisory Sales Executive, Women’s Health/Perioperative
Oracle – Formerly Cerner Corporation
12.2007 - 06.2009
Clinical Manager, Labor and Delivery/Women’s Services OR
IU Health
01.2000 - 01.2007
Bachelor of Science - Marketing/Communications
University of Indianapolis
Associate of Science - Nursing
University of Indianapolis