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About Rick Holbrook

Rick Holbrook is a senior healthcare executive with over 20 years of experience in R & D, Engineering, System Integration, Implementations and Quality Assurance. Before joining Skylight, Rick worked as an independent healthcare consultant with various HCIT suppliers, major healthcare organizations and information technology groups. Prior to this, Rick worked nearly 20 years as a Vice President/Managing Director at Cerner Corporation with responsibility for various organizations including Application Architecture, Product Management, Usability, Release Management, Foreign System and Medical Device Integration and Offshore Development. Rick was responsible for developing the first bi-directional medical device interface, launching Cerner's first non-clinical Access Management enterprise, creating an open access object layer for 3rd parties to develop interactive solutions on the Cerner platform. During his tenure, he was also responsible for several security, patient privacy and bedside patient safety patents. Rick holds Bachelor of Science degrees in both Computer Sciences and Psychological Profiling and also a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management from the University of Arkansas.

  • “Vision – the ideal image or idea of a concept that contains imagination and foresight”

    12/22/2011 | Rick Holbrook

    A person will often note individuals that have the ability to dream of “what ifs” in visual fashion as those with a gift or insight of how to solve complex problems. Sometimes those individuals provide the vision for the creation of the next big thing. And though it doesn’t diminish the ability to possess this skill, there should also be equal credit given to the accompanying individual(s) that develop the architectural plan and details that brings that vision to life. This has never been truer than in healthcare today with its complex workflows and time sensitive challenges. In the information system world, it is important to not just have a vision, but a great understanding of architectural design and technologies to support these dreams of how to help patients and hospitals achieve success in improving the patient experience. Continue reading →

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