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FEI SYSTEMS ADVISORY BOARD

The FEI Advisory Board is comprised of a diverse group of individuals from outside of FEI.  Board Members have varying backgrounds with expertise in government and private industry, healthcare, IT, procurement and legal strategy, company growth, economics and more. Their broad experience allows us to continue to further our commitment to connecting every dimension of health and human services.

Chris LeGrand
CEO of BroadReach Group

Chris LeGrand is a senior industry executive who has in-depth understanding of both the public sector and commercial health markets, long-standing relationships with clients and partners, and a proven track record of growing small businesses organically and through strategic acquisition to create shareholder value. LeGrand has more than 30 years of business experience in the US government services industry, 25 of which have been in the health sector. He is passionate about the limitless possibilities of harnessing health knowledge to empower citizens, organizations, and governments around the globe.

He recently published his first book entitled The Complete Business Leader: A Framework for Impact in Work and Life, available on Amazon.

Formerly President at DAI Global Health he is currently the CEO of BroadReach Group.  LeGrand serves on several outside boards in the for-profit and non-profit sectors. He is the former Chairman of the Board for the Triangle Global Health Consortium.

Chris earned a MS degree at George Washington University, and a BS degree from Clemson University.

Daniel Stein
Managing Partner – Stewards of Change Consulting

Daniel Stein is President of the Stewards of Change Institute, a unique not-for-profit think tank and advocacy/implementation organization.  The organization was built on the foundational belief that responsible, systemic information-sharing is the key to achieving enduring advancements in the health and well-being of children, adults and communities.  SOCI’s mission is to improve lives by initiating, inspiring and instilling transformational change in Health and Human Services at all levels of government, industry and the nonprofit sector.

For over a decade, Mr. Stein has been a thought-leader, educator and advocate in promoting and implementing “interoperability” by working nationally in the private and public sectors – at the local, state and federal levels – to instigate systemic change. Through the Stewards of Change Consultancy, which is the implementation arm of SOCI, Stein also has provided his expertise and experience to create the strategies, operational regimes, tools, trainings and materials needed to achieve tangible results and fulfill the Institute’s mission. 

Mr. Stein is a recipient of an MPPM/MBA from the Yale School
of Management. 

Sam Malhotra
CEO, Subsystem Technologies, Inc.

Sam Malhotra is a veteran executive with proven vision and extensive business management experience.  He is the Founder and CEO of Subsystem Technologies, which provides Professional Services in Information Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing, Information Security and Enterprise Program Management support to the Federal Government.  Mr. Malhotra is skilled in business development and evolving business strategies; enterprise computing and Digital strategies. He possess a well-developed sense of future market directions enabling innovate strategies to create and sustain market dominance.

Sam was appointed by Gov. Larry Hogan as a Cabinet Secretary to run the Department of Human Services in Nov. 2014 and then served as Gov. Hogan’s Chief of Staff until Sept. 2017.

Sam is a Board Member of the Trustees at Catholic Charities of Baltimore and is a  member of the University of Maryland’s Board of Visitors, College of Computational Mathematics ad Natural Science; appointed by the Governor, Board of Regents, University of Maryland.

Mr. Malhotra is a graduate of the University of Maryland, the Harvard Business School and the Georgetown McDonough School of Business.

His specialties include Strategic Planning, Execution of Strategic Plans, Finance, Board Governance, and Developing New Business Strategies. 

Susan Gabay
Managing Director – Houlihan Lokey

Susan Gabay has more than 20 years of Wall Street and investment banking experience focused primarily on advising companies, investors, and executives operating in the aerospace, defense, and government technology and services markets. Over the course of her career, she has advised on more than 50 mergers and acquisitions advisory assignments, including sell-side and buy-side advisory assignments, divestitures, recapitalizations, and fairness opinions. 

Ms. Gabay holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Duke University.

GPRA Tools and Upload

WITS’ current version of the Discretionary Services GPRA tool supports data collection for the SOR program. This includes the intake, 3 month, 6 month, and discharge CSAT GPRA interviews. The system currently includes an automated, nightly upload of all completed GPRA data to the SPARS system, and it is assumed that SAMHSA will allow the same upload for SOR GPRA data.

WITS includes a follow-up due screen and related alerts to ensure that each provider, oversight agency, and the State can monitor the GPRA follow ups that are coming due, as well as monitor overall compliance with the grant’s rules regarding 80% completion of follow ups within the specified timeframe.

FEI will keep pace with changes to the GPRA as they are introduced by SAMHSA to ensure continued compliance.

Evidence Based Practices

WITS will allow the tracking of a client that is placed into any program of care, including the evidence based criteria that are used for that particular program of care. The program record also includes the level of care or service level. The system will record the length of time (days) that a client is treated in that particular program and the reasons for disenrollment/discharge.

Additional tracking is allowed for the medication used when Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) is part of the care. WITS allows for the use of evidence based screeners and assessments, including the ASI, ASI Lite, and other ASAM criteria based tools. Modules allow the capture of all workflow and payment data related to services, core functions supporting treatment, prevention and recovery services.

Reporting of each service paid for by SOR funding is also available, by client and date, if desired. The State may track the burn rate and monitor trends in spending by provider, by client type, or by type of service.

Reporting

FEI will provide help gathering as much information possible for the semi-annual and final progress reports, as well as for the annual and final financial status reports and yearly sustainability report, as soon as the reporting requirements become available. Details will be available after award, WITS addresses these reporting requirements, as it has with many discretionary CSAT grants over the past decade. Whenever possible, prescribed reports are available in WITS to help compliance with CSAT progress and financial reports. The WITS platform also includes robust ad-hoc reporting in real time, allowing the State and its providers to access and analyze data to understand the impact of the services and outcomes.

Structured Reporting System

Prevention WITS gives you ready access to all data through a structured reporting system. Easily and rapidly generate formal reports, such as Block Grant reports. Create and run ad‐hoc reports to answer questions from state officials, legislators, or providers. Review SPF data entered and run QA and progress reports at any point in time. Compare data from Prevention WITS against state or national numbers to better understand community needs. Prevention WITS robust reporting puts the data for decision‐making in your hands at all times.

Workflow Driven

All screens center around the user’s workflow, guiding the user to the next step. See how Prevention WITS can be configured to support your user workflows.

Third Party Billing for Prevention Services

WITS allows providers or states to manage a variety of third party billing, establishing billable services, rates, and the method of billing for each payor. Tracking of EOBs, payments and client balance and payments is also available.

Addresses the SPF SIG Logic Model

Admission

Admits the client into the program and gathers additional information on the client’s background and legal history. The information entered creates a snapshot of the client at the time of intake/admission, which can be used to compare to similar data captured at Discharge to measure client progress.

Eligibility

Using industry standard tools, such as ORAS for criminogenic risk, and other screeners and assessments (such as ASAM’s CONTINUUM™) for appropriate placement in a level of care in the community, the court can place individuals in the best setting for treatment success.

Case Management

Records all case management and related events, referrals and services provided to the drug court client. By tracking each case management activity, it is possible to identify ancillary services provided to the client and to track the client’s progress and participation. This includes detailed reporting of employment and education milestones, sanctions and incentives, new charges, community service hours, as well as court and other criminal justice events.

Drug Testing

Allows the tracking of drug test results and attendance. HL7 messaging can pull in drug test results from a lab or lab hub.

Fee Tracking

Track fees (charges and corresponding payments) for any type of financial transaction associated with the client.

Treatment Encounters

Records all treatment related services provided to the drug court client. These are coded against standard procedure codes, and may be exported to an external billing system. Treatment encounters may reference goals and objectives from the client’s treatment plan.

Treatment Planning

Allows the treatment provider to enter a comprehensive plan including problems, goals, objectives, and planned interventions, and update those plans as needed with coordinated reviews.

Integrated Scheduling and Group Notes

Includes scheduling of groups, management of the client roster and attendance at sessions, streamlined integration with progress note reporting.

System Generated User Alerts

Provider alerts to case managers for upcoming client activities.

Discharge

This module mirrors Admission in that it collects the same data for clients at the time of discharge that was collected during the client’s drug court admission.

Health Care Environment

The health care industry is moving toward greater interoperability and pervasive health information exchange. Health care organizations and systems must ensure that behavioral health patient data is shared in compliance with Federal and State confidentiality laws, such as 42 CFR Part 2 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). At the same time, patients have the legal right to control which aspects of their information are shared with or withheld from providers within a health information exchange environment.

Need for Consent2Share

Federal and State laws regarding sharing sensitive health information are driving the need for data segmentation, capturing patient consent, and enforcing patient preferences. Federal and expert stakeholders developed standards and guidelines to enable data segmentation and patient consent management. Thus, there is a need for health care organizations and systems to use online systems that segment data, elicit patient consents, comply with patient preferences, comply with confidentiality and privacy laws, and use national interoperability standards.

Solution: Consent2Share

FEI Systems developed Consent2Share as an open source application for consent management and data segmentation. It integrates with existing electronic health record (EHR) and health information exchange (HIE) systems via interoperability standards. Consent2Share enables electronic implementation of sensitive health information disclosure policies by applying the information-sharing rules needed to constrain the disclosure of sensitive data according to patient preferences. It supports Federal and State requirements related to specially protected health information, including 42 CFR part 2 and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It puts control of information exchange in the hands of the person in the healthcare system that has a right to decide who has access to their data: the patient.