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Brian Rucco provides insight and perception about a complex and evolutionary healthcare environment. He uses contemporary social science research about health policies that has been spawned in university circles and uses those study findingss in tandem with statistical research of the client's internal databases. He councils Governance members, External Leaders and Healthcare Executives. He delivers unseen information about future healthcare alternatives that donors and executive leadership may be considering. Using encounter databases he has tailored analyses that scrutinized the alternatives of government funding initiatives with local healthcare service strategies.

These empirically based analyses have aligned patient service mission of providers with reimbursement realities of running a successful care giving organization. He has provided assessments and pragmatic knowledge resulting in a rational and coherent vision for new and updated strategies to succeed. Demonstrated results have included:

• Senior hospital executives being proactive when addressing the service delivery issues within the communities and the diverse contituences they serve
• Mental Health agencies to speak forcefully about funding issues for at risk populations within inner city neighborhoods
• Using external benchmarks as a measurement gauge against budget and actual performances

Studying and evaluating patient delivery issues with Medical Directors, Chief Financial Officers, Nursing Executives and Executive Directors he has employed data exploration techniques expanding the Knowledge Management applications of provider organizations. Collaborating with leadership while working with a facility's most recent data sets, he has fashioned internal metrics for measuring quality issues within program budget means. He has customized surveys for eliciting physician and staff concerns. Current projects involve the unique task of merging survey research with same respondent patient encounter data. Juxtaposing historical data with industry norms and public policy pronouncements has expedited the process of establishing realistic program goals and valid benchmarks while furthering consensus building within these complex organizational environments.

Over his career he has represented provider viewpoints at public hearings about new government funding initiatives and the impact of regulatory revisions on patient care delivery and finances. He has acted as a consultant with state government agencies about the management and implementation of state-wide patient characteristic surveys.

Brian Rucco is a Fellow (FACHE) with the American College of Healthcare Executives. For over thirty years in ambulatory and inpatient settings he has provided empirically based appraisals relied upon by healthcare executives. During the course of his career he has spoken about the import of patient data sets at Business Intelligence conferences. He has served as an Adjunct Faculty member on college campuses teaching students about Medical Billing practices. He earned an MPA degree in Health Policy\Planning from New York University and obtained an MA in History at Lehigh University.