Bill Oravecz is Managing Partner of WTO Associates LLC , a healthcare technology and IT solutions consultancy serving healthcare providers and the medical device and pharma industries. He is also the Chief Analyst for HITECH Answers.
WTO Associates helps improve the leverage of clients People, Finance and Technology resources to increase effectiveness and productivity in meeting their strategic objectives through an advisory, program management and implementation role.
With the advent of the HITECH Act in February 2009 inclusive of its implementation deadlines, complexities and Medicare reimbursement implications, WTO Associates has developed a program and vendor management focused on helping healthcare providers with the effective implementation and support of the various facets of their healthcare IT initiatives, including EHR selection/implementation strategy, planning and management, Healthcare Information Security audit (ISO/IEC 27002:2005) and certification compliance, HIPAA 4010A1 to 5010 and ICD-9 to ICD-10-CM/PCS migration/compliance.
WTO attended the Health IT Stimulus Summit in September 2009 at Boston for senior executives on preparation for the federal health IT (HITECH) stimulus program, selection and implementation of an EHR records system and privacy and security issues and is a member of both the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
