Ray Pedden

Goal-oriented senior executive well-versed in leading teams and executing strategies targeted on operational excellence . Familiar with trends, regulatory conditions and compliance in the healthcare industry. Hardworking and reliable with strong ability in strategy and innovation. Offering deep operational and technical experience. Highly organized, proactive and punctual with team-oriented mentality.

• I have had the privilege to develop a two year medical school into a full four year school, assist in the start up of two new four year medical schools, improve and implement the governance structure in several nationally recognized healthcare organizations, develop and implement new technologies that have increased the efficiency of healthcare operations and install complex healthcare information systems
• I now want to focus on a developing and implementing a framework to foster innovation in the healthcare safety net
• This framework is envisioned to be an environment within which we can test and evaluate innovations that will address our overwhelming need for patient access, patient engagement, management of complex patients and overall population management challenges
• We will organize around a common set of engagement principles that enable the measurement of the success or failure of an innovation using metrics that matter and are replicable across the industry
• It is through this evidence based model that we will have a deep and lasting impact on our ability to take care of our most at risk group of patients in a manner that ensures the long term sustainability of the valuable safety net resources
• Professional achievements include winning the Modern Healthcare Innovation Award for the Memorial Care project in 1998 and Laureate status in the 2002 Computerworld Heroes in Healthcare for a case study on the e-health environment
• Specialties: healthcare information systems, healthcare organizational governance, healthcare innovation, healthcare operations and transaction processing for healthcare.

Why Consider an Innovation Center?

Center for Care Innovations · Nov 3, 2017

Using Ethnically Relevant Instructions to Improve Patient Outcomes 

Center for Care Innovations · Nov 2, 2017

How Do We Go from Innovating to Being Innovative? 

Center for Care Innovations · Nov 2, 2017

Infographic: Waiting-Room Concierge

Center for Care Innovations · Nov 1, 2017

Health Care Is Not an Insurance 

Center for Care Innovations · Jun 27, 2017

Medication Adherence in the Safety Net: Where Simple Innovations Make Big Impact 

Center for Care Innovations · Dec 8, 2016

Innovation Is a Maze—on Fire 

Center for Care Innovations · Aug 19, 2016

Leading Change Without Being Offensive 

Center for Care Innovations · Jun 23, 2016

Unlikely Alliances Are the New Normal 

Center for Care Innovations · May 5, 2016

Flying and the Patient Experience 

Center for Care Innovations · Feb 4, 2016

Human Factors in Breakthrough Innovation 

Center for Care Innovations · Dec 4, 2015 

8 Ways to Improve Your Success Rate 

Center for Care Innovations · Nov 12, 2015 

5 Ways Innovation Projects Can Fail5 Ways Innovation Projects Can Fail

Center for Care Innovations · Oct 8, 2015 

Reducing Labor Costs with Pen Computing

Healthcare Informatics · Feb 1, 1993

Labor Intensity in the Medical Group Practice: An Option 

MGMA Information Systems Newsletter · Jan 1, 1993

Integrating Financial Systems in the Academic Health Science Center 

GBA Forum · Jan 1, 1985