Team Member Bio

Katie Verd, MA
WIREC Consultant
katiev@qualishealth.org

Professional Background
Katie has eleven years of healthcare-related project management and consulting experience, focusing on whole system implementations—front-to-back requirements, design and build, training, and implementation of EHR, CRM, and Medicare systems—workflow analysis and improvement, and change management strategies; all of these are directly connected to her WIREC work. She incorporates systems thinking into all her work.

Motivation
 “I love my job – my recent epiphany is how much I love the workflow part of this process. It’s critical before, during and after an implementation. Working directly with clinics to help them reach Meaningful Use is an opportunity to ask them to look at the work they do, and how and why they do it that way. Together we can investigate what’s working and what isn’t. This provides a place to go and a way to get there. That moment when someone has a realization that they didn’t initially see whole process is an amazing place to be. Watching people change and grow and being a part of that is an incredible opportunity.”

Personal
Katie grew up and currently lives in Shoreline, WA, a suburb of Seattle, with her husband, a personal trainer, three children (all under age 5), two dogs, and a cat. She spends her spare time “vacuuming pet hair off the carpet, cooking and baking as much as I can, and planning to write the next ‘great American non-fiction’ book.” She has a BA in Spanish from the University of Oregon and an MA in Organization Systems Renewal from Seattle University.