Dani Magistro, MSN,RN

Senior Associate

Ms. Dani Magistro has 32 years of experience in the healthcare industry. The past twenty years have been focused in the clinical information systems environment working first in a hospital setting, then with a vendor and the past 13 years as an independent consultant.

Ms. Magistro has most recently developed the web content for the Missouri/HEDI EHR Compass ™ toolkit; worked at MLHS as IT PM on various projects; with NCHRI to investigate integration between research and clinical organizations; and on a Social Network Analysis for AMIA’s Global Partnership Program. She had worked with The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia assisting with the implementation of the EPIC inpatient system, St. Mary’s Hospital on various system selection and implementation preparation tasks, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia assisting with core vendor system selection, contract negotiations and strategic and tactical pre-implementation activities, Lancaster General Hospital as quality assurance for their EHR system selection project and analyzing data assets for Solucient.

Previous engagements have included working with:

• Sinai Hospital for an operating room system implementation.
• Johns Hopkins Hospital to analyze and document the functions of the Oncology Clinical Information System.
• West Virginia University Hospital to analyze the potential realization of benefits from investing in information technology.
• The Clinical Center at NIH she assisted with selection of a core clinical system and nutrition, surgical and pharmacy systems. She also performed a critical care requirements development, analysis of current state of CPOE at academic medical centers, pharmacy department information system feasibility studies, and a clinical documentation systems market review.
• Nemours Ms Magistro installed EPIC ambulatory EMR providing onsite training support for a five-provider practice.
• Boone Hospital she performed a workflow analysis for imaging system development project.
• University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMS) system she analyzed the feasibility of the implementation of an antineoplastic medication management system. At UMMS, she also assisted with Year 2000 contingency planning; evaluated and provided strategic direction to a foreign clinical information system vendor prior to a USA product launch.
• She has also evaluated North Arundel’s self-developed clinical information system.
• She supported Greater Baltimore Medical Center selection process for a clinical information system.
• She also performed a Nursing Clinical Information System ROI study at South Eastern Ohio Medical Center for a healthcare information system vendor.
• She has been adjunct faculty and curriculum advisor for the Nursing Informatics certificate program at Eastern University.

Prior to moving into consulting, Ms. Magistro was a Clinical Information Systems Specialist for SpaceLabs Medical, Inc. and JRS Clinical Technologies, Inc. She managed the system selection and implementation for Mercer Medical Center in Trenton, NJ. Before specializing in Clinical Informatics she was a clinical nurse educator and medical/surgical; critical care staff nurse.

Ms. Magistro received her BS in Nursing from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978 and Master's of Science in Nursing also from the University of Pittsburgh in 1982. She holds Certificates in Six Sigma Green Belt Healthcare and Lean Six Sigma through Villanova University. In 1996, she became one of the first nurses certified as an Informatics Nurse by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Ms. Magistro has attended and presented informatics-related programs nationally and internationally. She has been a board member and Program Chair of the Delaware Valley HIMSS chapter, and a member of the Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in Nursing, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and Sigma Theta Tau, Eta Chapter (the International Honor Society of Nursing). She was the 1992-3 President and a founding member of Healthcare Informatics of New Jersey and a member of the Planning Committee for the NJ State Nurses' Association Computers in Nursing Forum.

Associated with HCIC since 1997