christopher loyd
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ChristopherLoyd
A Story of Me
I was born here…
Age: 24Birthdate: November 23, 1988
Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center
But…
Nashville, TN
Quickly Moved Here…
And…
Hiking… …Hunting… …and Hay
Began My Childhood…
But Then…
Oh Yeah!
I Found One Of These…
And…
My Life Turned to This…
Which Lead
To…
Failing… …Trouble… Obesity…
Becoming Lazy…
:(
I needed these…
And this…
So I did what
many 17 year
olds do…
Joined the Army…
And quickly found…
ResponsibilityTeamwork
WillingnessSelf Motivation
DisciplineProfessionalism
Integrity
I did this for awhile…
Combat Medical
Specialist
Then moved onto this…
Counter Missile Radar
Engineer
And was
shipped
overseas on
my 21st
Birthday…
To do this…
And discovered…
Convoy Security
GunnerIT Officer Electronic Warfare
That I had an
innate ability
to handle
stress REALLY
well!
Stress? Stress is driving
through a city of over a million
occupants, all of them wielding
assault rifles, and giving you
death stares. That’s stress!
What you’re going to have for
dinner, when your next vacation
is, what you’re going to wear
tomorrow. All that goes out the
window comparatively.
“
”
-PFC Christopher Loyd
Mosul, Iraq 2009 - 10
After my vacation in the desert I was…
And had to find work in the civilian
sector…
Luckily I had acquired quite the
skillset…
And began an internship here…
Corrections Corporation of America
Database Administrator Supported Microsoft Access
DB for Enterprise Asset Manager.
Wrote custom SQL queries for front-end reporting.
Held live teaching events for asset manager software.
All Things come to an end however…
Company:
Asurion
Position:Systems Repair
Product:
Game Consoles
And I moved to doing this…
One
Day…My Phone
Rang…It was a recruiter…
They told me they could offer me more of this…
In exchange for this…
And so began my adventure into Healthcare Technology…
Community Health Systems
Technical Service Desk
- Customer Service- First Level Troubleshooting
- Hospital Workflow- “Face of the Company”
- Supporting 134 hospitals
Nearly Instantly…
I had found my calling…
I became addicted to learning everything healthcare technology…
Shortly
After…
I started moving up at the company…
Service DeskTeam Lead,Service Desk
Physician
Application Support
All while continuing to learn more and more…
And up…
And up…
McKesson Horizon Bash Scripting
HL7 Cloverleaf
HMS
MirthOracle SQL
Linux
Like…a lot more…
I decided to specialize my learning…
HL7 Cloverleaf
+
Which gave me more time to do this…
And to find my purpose…
Being inspired by men like this…
And taking one quote with me….
Strive not to be a success, but
rather to be of value. “
”- Albert Einstein
Which is when
I came to the
realization…
Healthcare Technology is a unique field
of study. You need not only be proficient
with technology, but with the
communication of medicine. I am not a
doctor, or a nurse – but I touch, see, and
manipulate more patient’s data in one
day than any medical professional will
see in their life time. With that, it’s not
about the money, or the job benefits, or
the plush chair – but making sure I
deliver excellent technical insight for the
best patient care possible.
“
”- Christopher Loyd
At around the same time…
I was given the opportunity to work for a premiere laboratory…
Aegis Sciences CorporationSystems Integration Developer
Supported all production interfaces.
Managed the development of 58 new integrations.
Gained Cloverleaf Level 1 Certification.
Advised staff on new market happenings within
healthcare integration and Electronic Medical Records.
Where I continue to hone my skills…
All in the Name of Better Patient Care…
Microsoft .NET
C#
WPF
TCL
Windows 8
Team Foundation Server
HL7
Specialty Workflow
Medical Financial Data
THANK YOU