Jeffrey M. Adams crafted his expertise in healthcare systems, health care organizational effectiveness, organizational quality measures and terminology standardization from his experience as a consultant and researcher. He has collaborated with the nation's leading authorities on nursing administration, health care management, quality outcomes and clinical systems. Mr. Adams has served as a direct advisor to nursing leaders on practice model redesign, Magnet accreditation and clinical systems improvement and documentation processes. He has recently provided staffing analysis, workforce and errors reports for a hospital in Maine. He has led the systems development, staff education, and organizational transition of two merging hospitals in Connecticut. He is currently providing executive services to a California hospital preparing for Magnet application. Mr. Adams has developed a widely used clinical systems lexicon and proprietary electronic health record that includes nursing taxonomies for a major pharmaceutical industry vendor in the Mountain region. He has played an integral role in the development of online tools for health/disease management sponsored by the payer groups in the West. His earliest roles were the assessment,utilization, management and reporting of health care business office tools.

Mr. Adams has significant experience in healthcare systems workforce and clinical information utilization solutions. He is frequently asked to share his industry knowledge with clients, conference attendees, students and advisory panels. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Boston College with anticipated dissertation completion by Spring/Summer of 2008. His dissertation research focuses on the influence of the nurse executive on patient care work environments. He is also a Pre-doctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital. Mr. Adams is an active member of the American Organization of Nurse Executives, The Council for Graduate Education in Administrative Nursing, and Sigma Theta Tau Honors Society. He has served on the faculty of an Ivy League University and on the Board of Governors at a top ranked teaching and research university in the Midwest. Mr. Adams is an experienced writer whose work has been published in journals, textbooks and other publications. His recent presentation, July 2007 "Defining Metrics for Point of Care Device Selection" won the Scholarship Award at the Summer Institute for Nursing Informatics. His educational credentials include a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Michigan and a Masters of Science in Nursing and Healthcare Administration from the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business.

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