Richard Vaughn MD
Corporate Vice President – Clinical Decision Support
Medical Director Project Beacon
Richard Vaughn, M.D., is the Corporate Vice President – Clinical Decision Support at SSM Health Care and the Medical Director for Project Beacon, SSM’s electronic health record implementation.
Dr. Vaughn is responsible for defining, implementing and optimizing a common platform of care for SSM via the electronic health record (EHR). This includes order sets, reports, documentation tools and advanced decision support alerts that can be used at all SSM facilities as well as the clinical governance required to support the implementation. The corporate Clinical Decision Support department, with 4 clinical analysts and a pharmacist, was created with the intent of improving patient outcomes by using evidence-based medicine and creating, maintaining and optimizing advanced decision support in the SSM EHR. SSM has now fully implemented a HIMSS level 6 EHR at 8 hospital locations in 2 states and at over 65 outpatient multispecialty locations.
In his 15 years with SSM Health Care, Dr. Vaughn has demonstrated tremendous leadership and passion for his work. He has been instrumental in the strategy, planning, development and implementation of Project Beacon. Dr.Vaughn became the medical director of Project Beacon in 2006 aftertransitioning out of his Internal Medical practiceat SSM St. Charles (Mo.) Clinic Medical Group. He facilitated the EHR vendor selection process, serves asphysician champion andleads the development ofentity physician champions.He hasbeen involved with SSM’s EHR planning since1999. He is the chair of the SSM Medical Informatics Committee.
Prior to joining SSM Health Care, Dr. Vaughn received his MD degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia School of Medicine and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He and completed the American Informatics Association 10x10 medical informatics training program and holds a Master of Information Systems degree from the University of Missouri – St. Louis.
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