HCIM

HCIM is pleased to welcome John Rickenbach as Director of Technical Development. John has previously worked for HCIM as an expert contract resource and recently accepted an offer to join HCIM’s Leadership Team as a full time Colleague in April 2011. During his short time with HCIM, John has already provided significant input on future development opportunities and infrastructure systems for HCIM, which will improve the company’s ability to access and share information.

“John has been our go-to-consultant in the past, due to his extensive experience with numerous healthcare payer benefits administration systems coupled with his mastery of information technology tools. We knew he’d be an asset to HCIM and are enthused to have him on board. We’re very excited about his vision for the future technology of HCIM’s products and we’ll also leverage his expertise to develop an internal network infrastructure that will increase customer satisfaction and speed-to-market,” said Michael Wilson, President and CEO of HCIM.

John lives in the great Northwest outside of Portland, Oregon. He is an avid outdoorsman and is involved in numerous outdoor activities, including equestrian backpacking and trail development, water sports, 4WD motorsports, skiing and just about anything else the outdoors has to offer.

John graduated from Oregon State University with an engineering degree and has extensive experience in construction and project management. He has spent the last 12 years creating technology solutions for the healthcare industry in key areas such as risk management, conversions, analytics and extended reporting, Web and Winforms based solutions, and claims auditing and recoveries. He served as the President of Workflow Logic, Inc. for the past 16 years, prior to joining HCIM.

“I am excited to combine my talents and resources with a company of individuals that are so dedicated to bringing true value to their customers. HCIM has already shown themselves to be industry leaders in artificial intelligence products – with unwavering commitment to customer service and business ethics. It is my goal to assist HCIM in taking their suite of artificial intelligence tools to a whole new level of functionality and usability that will not only be beneficial to our clients, but will be downright exciting! This will allow us to expand the product’s use in existing and new industries,” said John.

As Director of Technical Development, John will serve on HCIM’s Leadership Team and will direct the activities of the Development Team including overseeing product development, managing HCIM’s IT infrastructure, and contributing his payer system expertise to various consulting projects.

HCIM is pleased to announce that Marilyn (Udy) Nickles has rejoined HCIM as a Client Services Professional Consultant.  Marilyn has over 20 years of experience in healthcare operations and consulting, and our clients routinely select her as their consulting partner due to her strong work ethic and dedication to any given project. 

In 2007, Marilyn attained her QNXT Certification, and she has been a key product consultant on numerous QNXT projects.  She is presently assigned to work on a QNXT 4.7 upgrade in Montana.

“As part of a QNXT Certified Consulting team, Marilyn will utilize her QNXT experience and expertise to help ensure delivery of this time sensitive project,” said Jeffrey M. Hall, Executive Vice President, Client Services at HCIM.

“I am thrilled to be rejoining HCIM.  HCIM exemplifies an ideal company environment with emphasis on professional and personal development.   The company actively supports additional training for employees and provides the opportunity to use both my current skill set and those newly acquired.   The leadership style at HCIM fosters an atmosphere of trust and equality.  This makes coming to work a positive and rewarding experience – almost like coming home,” said Marilyn, who currently resides in Las Vegas, Nev.

We are happy to have her rejoin us as member of the HCIM family of Colleagues, and we look forward to many successful consulting services opportunities with her in the future.

HCIM is pleased to announce that Daniel Przybylski has joined HCIM’s team as a Lead Applications Developer. Daniel began working with HCIM in April 2010 through a contract assignment, and due to his outstanding contributions to the development of HCIM’s software solutions, a full time offer of employment was extended to him in early December 2010. 

Daniel grew up in the heart of the Silicon Valley, and while his professional career began in the semiconductor industry, he quickly learned that his real passion was programming.  He has over 10 years of experience in the overall software development lifecycle (requirements, design, implementation, and deployment), and most of his experience is with Microsoft® development products.

“Now is an exciting time for Microsoft application developers. Windows® Presentation Foundation, Windows® Communication Foundation and Silverlight® are great new tools which allow easier design and implementation of distributed systems and smart client applications. Combining my experience in the overall software development lifecycle with HCIM’s use of stalwart resources such as Microsoft® SQL Server® and Visual Studio®, I’m looking forward to helping HCIM continue to deliver new applications to our clients, as well as new, enhanced versions of those same applications which HCIM’s clients have relied on for years,” said Daniel.

Daniel will be working with the Development Team as the team lead to help set the direction of development efforts and identify the tools and standards necessary for continued growth and expansion.

HealthCare Information Management, Inc. (HCIM) is excited to introduce our newest colleague, Carmenza Gamero, who has accepted a position as Sales Support Coordinator. Carmenza’s experience includes marketing research, strategic business plan development and analysis, marketing collateral development, tradeshows, and pharmaceutical sales. In addition, she has conducted extensive marketing research for clients in various industries and has developed manuals to implement specific client marketing strategies. She will be working out of HCIM’s Houston, Texas offices.

Carmenza is originally from Panama City, Panama, and has lived in the United States for over 20 years. She is fluent in both Spanish and French, and she possesses a basic knowledge of the Japanese and German languages. She attended The University of Texas at Austin where she earned a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing.

In her position at HCIM, Carmenza will work under the direction of HCIM’s CEO and Director of Sales, Michael E. Wilson. She will be responsible for assisting in the sales process, coordinating HCIM’s participation at industry tradeshows, and developing content for HCIM’s website.

“I am excited to be a part of the HCIM team. Having worked for large and middle sized companies in the past, and having experienced the difficulties in the communication gap between employees, makes me appreciate the open lines of communication at HCIM. I would like to make a significant contribution to this organization by providing excellent sales support and ensuring a strong company presence at major industry events,” said Carmenza.

“Carmenza brings to HCIM extensive hands-on experience in both sales and marketing for the healthcare industry. She will be a valuable resource and addition to our sales team and in building relationships with our current and prospective clients,” said Michael Wilson.

HCIM is pleased to welcome Carmenza to the team and looks forward to the contributions she will make towards the overall achievement of our strategic goals and mission to simply provide the best advice, products, services and support to our customers.