Gary L. Ward, PMP, Vice President Client Services: Gary received his Bachelor's Degree in Biology from the State University of New York, Albany and completed his Masters of Science degree in Information Systems from West Virginia College of Graduate Studies. He is a registered Medical Technologist with the American Medical Technologists (AMT), a certified PMP through the Project Management Institute (PMI), and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE.) Gary has over 25 years of experience in clinical operations and finance and information systems management. As a consultant, he served as a resource for a variety of healthcare clients in a range of information systems implementation and management projects encompassing decision support, financial accounting, cost accounting and case mix systems. His clinical operations experience includes various areas of the medical laboratory as well as implementation experience for radiology systems, and pharmacy management systems.
Gary is a former US Navy Hospital Corpsman. After leaving the Navy, he worked at Craven County Hospital, New Bern, NC in the clinical laboratory and later at Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV as the Director of Information Services. He moved to Houston, TX in 1990 to work with a software vendor, CHC. After leaving CHC in 1994, Gary worked for Ernst & Young, LLP and is a former Principal in their Health Sciences Advisory Services practice. Gary started his own company to work as a consultant for hospitals and information systems vendors. During that time he worked as a consultant on some key engagements for MC AnalyTXs, Inc. and liked it so much he joined the firm in October of 2005.
In his role at MC AnalyTXs, Inc., Gary is responsible for assisting clients with gaining the maximum benefit from using the AllPayor system. He is managing implementations and the day-to-day data processing and contract modeling components.