About Me – Emmanuel Bazile Refuge

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
–Benjamin Franklin

About Me!

Emmanuel P. Bazile, Ph.D. has 22 years of experience in Information Technology Implementation in the healthcare space. A career that started at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center as an assistant manager for a billing system implementation. Over the years Dr. Bazile has ventured into a number of areas in this domain. In 1999, as an implementation manager, he successfully implemented several laboratory information systems throughout the west coast of the United States. In 2001 as Sr. System Engineer at New York Presbyterian Hospital, he engaged in the successful implementation of the Cerner laboratory system. Subsequent to implementing a number of Laboratory systems, he took his career to the next level engaging in the implementation of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems. His first implementation being with Kaiser Permanente; implementing Cerner Millennium, and later migrating to the Epic EMR system.

In 2005 Dr. Bazile Shifted his focus to the Public Health domain working on Bio-Surveillance implementation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as implementing Department of Health systems for a number of US states. At the (CDC), he contributed to the BioSense Data Provisioning Project. He performed extensive analysis of existing Health Level Seven (HL7) messages in hospitals and healthcare facilities around the country and mapped these messages to a CDC specification using HL7 v2.7. He also works with coded terminology to capture and map it to CDC standards under the PHIN vocabulary standards. Mr. Bazile has lead requirements analysis for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) BioSense Analysis, Visualization and Reporting (AVR) project. He was instrumental in creating, validating and publishing the Situational Awareness updates to the BioSense System Requirements Specification (SRS).

The past six years Dr. Bazile has worked in the Middle East implementing the Epic EMR system at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He has been working on a multi-disciplinary team performing various functions including SCRUM Master, Project Manager, and Integration Engineer. Dr. Bazile is also an adjunct University faculty member, teaching a graduate level course Systems Life Cycle and undergraduate course Introduction of Health Information Systems.

From a technology perspective, Dr. Bazile has designed, installed and implemented complete hospital integration systems on Windows 2012 servers using Rhapsody Integration Engine, MS SQL Server, and Public Health Information Networks Messaging System (PHINMS). He also developed several interfaces coded in Java and XML, participated in establishing Systems Scope, Gathering & Analyzing study facts.

Dr. Bazile has earned dual Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and English as well as a Master of Science in Health Information Systems from the University of Pittsburgh. Lastly, he has earned a Ph.D. in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University.

Work Experience

Integration Engineer, Project management, worked on implementating HL7 applications (DEX, Public Health App for Reportable Conditions), build interfaces (ADT, ORM, ORU, MDM, RDE, RDS, MFN), Quality Assurance of EMR applications making sure HL7 data posts correctly in the application.

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Healthcare IT Experience

More than 20 Years

Interface Development

Implementation of HL7 Applications

Quality Assurance of HL7 Messages and EMRs

Project Management

Teaching Experience

More than 10 Years

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Research

Presenting Lectures

Grading and Evaluating Students

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. –Benjamin Franklin