Management Decision Systems, Inc. - Laboratory consulting experts specializing in operations improvement

Richard A. Ouellette, MS FACHE MT(ASCP)H President/CEO

As a senior healthcare consultant, Mr. Ouellette has more than 20 years of progressive hands-on operations and consulting management experience. Mr. Ouellette holds a Bachelors degree (cum laude) from the University of Maine and a Masters degree in healthcare management from the University of Missouri. He is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, an Adjunct Professor for Healthcare Finance and Information Systems at Assumption College, Worcester, MA and a certified medical technologist MT(ASCP)H with the American Society of Clinical Pathologist.

His expertise includes:
		Operations Analysis & Improvement
		Business Intelligence & Reporting
		Information/Knowledge Systems (Decision Support)
		Health System Integration & Consolidation
		Clinical Laboratory Management Improvement

He has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Management Decision Systems, Inc. a consulting firm specializing in post-merger consolidation, system-wide service centralization, information/knowledge system planning, and decision support system implementation. He also served as the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Clini Tech Services, Inc., a multi hospital joint venture commercial laboratory that he was instrumental in starting. Mr. Ouellette was a contributing author to the book, Marketing for Mental Health Services, author’s management articles published in national business journals, and is a featured speaker at national/regional management seminars. He also designed, develop and engineered the MAST (Management Accountability, Staffing & Service Tracker) reporting system Reporter and the Lazarus Data Pump information system.

June G. Smart, PhD, MBA, CLD, CLS - Vice President Sales & Marketing Dr. Smart has over 30 years of experience serving the healthcare industry, spending the last six years in healthcare consulting at hospitals and academic medical centers for Chi Solutions Inc., and Healthcare Solutions from Roche Diagnostics. Prior to her experience in healthcare consulting, she served as a Laboratory Administrator in a major health system. She has also held a variety of managerial and technical positions in research, community and teaching hospital laboratories. In these roles she has provided guidance for the integration of nine hospital laboratories, facilitated the startup and growth of an independent laboratory, and served as the Operations Chair person for Joint Venture Hospital Laboratories (JVHL).

Her expertise includes:
		Laboratory Operations Analysis & Improvement
		Business Intelligence & Reporting
		Information/Knowledge Systems (Decision Support)
		Health System Integration & Consolidation
		Laboratory Management Improvement
		Organization Cultural Assessment

Dr. Smart’s consulting experience includes various market opportunity assessments, readiness assessments for starting or growing outreach programs. She also has experience in leadership and cultural assessments, with associated coaching and guidance. In addition, she writes articles for the Dark Report on laboratory related subject matter, and has consulting experience in the automotive industry.

Dr. Smart holds a PhD in Organizational and Business Anthropology from Wayne State University, a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Detroit and she received her medical technology training in Oxford, England at the John Radcliffe Hospital and Oxford College of Science and Technology.



	Management Decision Systems also has contractual relationships with a number of seasoned experts who share our commitment to outstanding service.

L. William Katz, DBA, CMC - Dr. Katz is President of Katz & Associates, Inc., a firm specializing in consulting to healthcare managers on financial, management and management information issues. He has more than 30 years of management and financial consulting experience. His clients include hospitals, medical schools, medical practice groups, IPAs, PHOs, managed care organizations, financial institutions, venture capitalist and governments. Dr. Katz earned his Doctor of Business Administration from the George Washington University, his MBA from Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and his AB from Dartmouth College. He is a Certified Management Consultant of the Institute of Management Consultants. He on the adjunct faculty of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst eCollege, the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, and Cambridge College where he teaches healthcare finance, health policy, and planning and marketing.

		His expertise includes:
			Financial planning, analysis & feasibility studies
			Business restructuring to improve financial performance
			Medicare, Medicaid and HIPAA compliance assessment, plan development, auditing and training
			Business planning & evaluation of proposed health care ventures
			Strategic planning and marketing

Prior to forming Katz & Associates Inc., Dr. Katz was a Director in the Compliance and Hospital/Physicians Practice of ZA Consulting, LLC. Previously, he directed the healthcare management and finance practice of Arthur D. Little, Inc. and managed the Chicago healthcare consulting practices of Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Grant Thornton. Previously, he served in the consulting division of American Hospital Supply and Medicus Systems Corporations.

Marvin S. Wool, M.D., MPH - Dr. Wool is President of M.Wool Medical Consultants which since 1997 has helped a variety of managed care organizations, integrated delivery systems, hospitals, PHOs and physician groups achieve shared medical management, quality improvement and financial goals. He earned his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine, an MPH from Boston University School of Public Health and an AB (magna cum laude) from Lafayette College . He is a Member of the American College of Physician Executives and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians

		His expertise includes:
			Medical management performance measurement
			Medical quality outcome measurement and improvement
			Design of incentive and shared risk programs
			Creation of physician, hospital, health insurance partnerships
			Medicare population management

Before founding his consulting firm, Dr. Wool practiced Internal Medicine and Endocrinology for 25 years and was a physician executive for 17 years. At the Lahey Clinic he was Medical Director of managed care programs which included both a commercial and Medicare HMO. At Harvard Pilgrim Health Care he was medical director for its Joint Ventures and for the Pilgrim Medicare HMO.

Raymond D. Fredette, FACHE - Mr. Fredette has over 25 years of results-oriented healthcare leadership experience in a diverse array of health care organizations in heavily penetrated managed care markets. He has served as the CEO of a 200 member Independent Physicians Organization, a large Community Health Center and as a senior operations executive in community and government hospitals. Mr. Fredette earned his Bachelor’s and Masters degrees from the University of Rhode Island, and is a Fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives.

		His expertise includes:
			Governance Development and Accountability
			Strategic Planning
			Operations Improvement
			Leadership and Team Building
			Community Health

Mr. Fredette has made numerous presentations and has provided leadership to several community and professional organizations. He has extensive experience in board development, hospital operations, practice management and managed care contracting and operations.

Vince T. Regina - Mr. Regina is the president and founder of V. T. Regina & Associates and has been involved in medical computer systems industry since 1964. He founded V. T. Regina & Associates in 1981 and this consulting practice is directed at two major industries. The first is the healthcare industry, where he provides expert guidance to medical institutions in the evaluation and selection of capital equipment, laboratory and radiology consolations and clinical information systems. The second is the high-tech industry, where he provides management consulting with emphasis in marketing development and business planning.

		His expertise includes:
			Enterprise Information System Planning
			Clinical Information Systems
			Operations Assessment and Improvement
			Marketing (Services and Products)
			Project Planning & Management

Prior to starting V. T. Regina & Associates, Mr. Regina spent 15 years with Becton Dickinson and Company (BD) as Vice President, managing their medical systems division. In this role, he was responsible for the specification, development, manufacture, sale, installation and support of clinical products worldwide. Products included information systems to supported entire clinical departments, i.e. the laboratory, pharmacy, radiology and cardiology, as well as hospital-wide order entry and specific patient monitoring products for critical care areas (ICU, CCU, ER, etc.). Mr. Regina has also helped establish and manage the complete operation of a clinical reference laboratory that supported pick-up and delivery services for a four-state area, mail-in accounts and complete testing support for a 500-bed hospital. He has also held management positions in software development for the banking, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.