Barbara McCann
Chief Industry Officer
Barbara McCann, Vice President of Professional Services and Chief Clinical Officer oversees the company's clinical operations department, including outcomes management quality improvement, Medicare operations and national patient databases. In addition, she is responsible for the continued development of Interim HealthCare disease state management programs and clinical business services.
Before joining Interim HealthCare, Ms. McCann was executive director of accreditation, plan performance and clinical management alliances at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in Chicago. Responsible for the development of system-wide strategies for managed care accreditation and health plan performance, she successfully designed and implemented the association's first national medical management alliance with the American Geriatrics Society. In addition, she created the first Blue Cross Blue Shield national performance measurement database, including HEDIS, and produced the first HMO Medicare and commercial HMO network "report cards" for national accounts.
Before this, Ms. McCann held several positions with Northbrook, Illinois-based Caremark Inc. As vice president of outcomes management and analytical services, Ms. McCann developed the company's quality management initiatives used in sales, internal operations and strategic planning, and supported several national and international divisions of the company, including disease management programs with utilization and outcomes analysis as well as customer-specific reporting.
Prior to joining Caremark, Ms. McCann was director of home care and hospice accreditation programs with the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois where she achieved industry consensus in the development of the first evaluation standards for home health, DME, home infusion services, hospice, and initiated national accreditation processes.
Ms. McCann holds a bachelor's degree in social welfare from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Phi Beta Kappa, and a master's degree from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
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