Sharon Brickhouse Martin

Teaming Partner

Ms. Sharon Brickhouse Martin is a senior healthcare consultant with more than 20 years of experience in organizational and operational evaluation and improvement; initially in the manufacturing industry and predominately in the healthcare industry. Her specific skills and experience include business process reengineering, organizational restructuring, management development and teambuilding, information systems utilization, and project management. Her healthcare clients have included teaching and non-teaching hospitals, hospices and health systems, physician associations, information systems and supply vendors, managed care organizations, and military and government healthcare organizations.

Ms. Martin is Founder and President of Brickhouse•Martin Healthcare Engineering (B•MHE). In this capacity, she is responsible for the management and information technology services that the firm provides to its healthcare clients. A professional services firm since 1991, B•MHE’s mission is to work with industry client to sustain improvements and manage change using proven engineering analyses. Ms. Martin managed the implementation of a re-engineered care delivery model for a small acute care hospital. It required facilitating and directing the work of over 100 physicians and employees in 20 different teams concerned with information technology integration, clinical pathway and case management development, human resource restructuring, and hospital-wide educational program development. For another client, a healthcare technology vendor, she managed the alpha and beta test phases of a new technology, and she developed and delivered a comprehensive educational program for a nation-wide systems roll-out to over 200 clinical users. She has also managed information systems selection and implementation projects using a customized end-user driven approach that facilitates change management and optimal system utilization. This approach includes conducting systems requirements workshops with groups of physicians to identify their technology needs, as well as to evaluate multiple vendor offerings. For another client, Ms. Martin led multiple joint application requirements planning (JARP) workshops that involved facilitated discussion, teambuilding and technology needs assessments.

Prior to starting B•MHE, Ms. Martin served in senior positions in the healthcare consulting practices of Ernst & Whinney, Coopers & Lybrand and Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc. An experienced facilitator and trainer, Ms. Martin has been a frequent speaker and author on the subjects of project management, reengineering, teambuilding, and process improvement for healthcare organizations.

Ms. Martin serves on the Advisory Council for the Medical Care for Children Partnership of Fairfax County Virginia. She is immediate past Chair of the Provider Committee which required her to recruit and implement programs to retain physicians to provide care to children without health insurance. She also serves as a Steering Committee member of the Ron Brown Scholars Program. She has previously served on the Industrial Advisory Board of the CEED program for the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, and as President and a member of the Board of Directors for the National Capital Chapter of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. She holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research as well as an M.S. in Engineering Administration, both from Virginia Tech. And she is a qualified Myers Briggs Type Indicator instructor.

Associated with HCIC since 2007