Healthcare Organizations: Financial Management Strategies

Dr. Richard Mata is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for Ricktelmed Information Systems and an associate professor at Texas State University. He attended the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and received his medical degree from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical College in Dallas. He serves on the JHU Alumni Admissions Committee and specializes in Internal Medicine and Medical Informatics, with an emphasis on full-cycle software engineering, medical and clinical project management, healthcare decision support systems, electronic medical records, HIPAA and computerized physician order entry systems. He earned a Master’s degree in Medical Informatics (MI), and Computer Information Systems (CIS) from the University of Phoenix, is a member of the Software Programmers Guild, and is IEEE affiliated with the Project Management Institute. He is also a Certified Medical Planner (Hon.) and member of the Security Health Care Accreditation and Certification Workgroup of URAC, based in Washington, DC and the Medical Records Institute (MRI) in Boston, Mass.