For more than ten years James Offutt has served as chief technology officer at Fi-Med Management, Inc., providing high-level direction on network security and the technology investments essential to Fi-Med’s rapid, agile growth.

Through a decade flush with advancements in medical billing technology, Offutt has led Fi-Med from an un-networked office of five workstations in the mid-1990s to a robustly-networked national firm with an award-winning IT team. His expertise in security, process automation and records digitization has helped place Fi-Med at the fore of a marketplace just now beginning to make those transitions industry-wide.

Offutt attributes Fi-Med’s success largely to its aggressive, proactive approach to catching and eliminating inefficiencies through initiatives cost-of-process studies that drill down and measure the steps, time and resources of a processing cycle end-to-end. The result: the company’s growing reputation for quick, lean solutions to changing regulations, and the ability adapt services to a market that can often be a moving target.

Working closely with Fi-Med’s IT team, Offutt has helped to spearhead the development of custom, in-house medical billing applications that will help keep them moving at the industry’s leading edge, and he continues to help Fi-Med navigate the security, networking and data challenges inherent to growth and acquisitions as the company continues to expand – keeping cycles moving smoothly and eliminating duplications that can impact efficiency.

Tags: Technology
9:28 am, March 16th, 2010 |