Michael Stearns

About Michael Stearns

Michael Stearns, MD, CPC, CRC, CFPC is a physician informaticist, health information technology (HIT), and healthcare compliance professional. He has extensive experience in the areas of HIT product development, risk adjustment, ICD-10-CM, CPT, SNOMED CT, regulatory compliance, quality reporting, interoperability, clinical content/terminology development, clinical documentation integrity, and medical coding. Dr. Stearns has provided leadership to informatics and terminology projects at the National Library of Medicine, the National Cancer Institute, and the College of American Pathologists. He served as the International Director of SNOMED International during the development of SNOMED CT and he was the founding board president of the Texas e-Health Alliance. Dr. Stearns is the co-founder and a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin Health Information Technology Certificate Program.Dr. Stearns co-chaired the American Health Information Management Associations’ (AHIMA) Technology and Innovations Practice Council in 2020 and is a member of the team developing the HL7 DaVinci Project FHIR-Based Risk Adjustment Implementation Guide. He also serves on the advisory council and as a subject matter expert for the Health Information Management Department of Grand Canyon University. Dr. Stearns has won awards for teaching, patient privacy and EHR-related patient safety. He is currently the specialized consulting director – medical informatics, at Wolters Kluwer Health.

Experience

1. Specialized Consulting Director

   Wolters Kluwer Health

   Jan 2021 — Present

Education

• University of Maryland School of Medicine

  Neurology Residency Certificate, Neurology Residency Program

• Georgetown University School of Medicine

  Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine

Skills

• Enterprise Software
• Physicians
• Program Management
• Management
• Team Building
• Clinical Research
• Ehr
• Medicare
• Data Analysis
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Emr
• Strategic Planning
• Consulting
• Snomed
• Business Analysis
• Health Information Exchange
• Microsoft Office
• Informatics
• Public Speaking
• Public Health
• Medical Coding
• Leadership
• Research
• Ehealth
• Hl7
• Revenue Cycle
• Quality Improvement
• Clinical Decision Support
• Healthcare
• Business Development
• Project Management
• Healthcare Consulting
• Hit
• Patient Safety
• Hospitals
• Microsoft Excel
• Software Documentation
• Practice Management
• Cpoe
• Medicine