Michele BosworthDr. Michele Bosworth earned her Medical Doctorate at West Virginia School of Medicine in Morgantown, West Virginia. After medical school, she completed her Family Medicine Residency Training at Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville, Nort Carolina. Dr. Bosworth attributes much of her founding passion for the delivery of comprehensive, high quality primary care to the extraordinary faculty and staff she had the honor to be trained under during her residency training. During her last year of residency, she was asked to develop and 23operate MAHEC's first satellite clinic upon graduation. As such, Dr. Bosworth served as the founding medical director for MAHEC's Cane Creek Family Health Center in Fairview, North Carolina where she practiced full-spectrum family medicine whilst maintaining a teach faculty presence in the MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Program. After two years, two dogs, and two children came into her and her husband Scott's life, Dr. Bosworth moved to Tyler, Texas to join the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler's(UTHSCT) Family Medicine Residency Program as core faculty and within a month became the program's clinic director. With a resolve for safety, standardization, behavioral health integration, and delivery of the highest quality of care, Dr. Bosworth progressed into Co-Chief Medical Information Officer, decidedly earning a second board certification in clinical informatics. Under her leadership as CMIO or Co-CMIO, she led various EHR implementations, upgrades, and optimization initiatives such as standardization of medication reconciliation, referral management, and Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE). Dr. Bosworth developed, deployed, and led the Clinical Informatics Governance and authored associated policies and procedures necessitating optimal and meaningful use of the EHR. Lastly, regulatory accomplishments included maximized performance with Meaningful Use, MIPS, and achieving HIMSS Level 6.Subsequently, Dr. Bosworth became UTHSCT's first Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer. In this roles she led her organization's progressive development of its' safety culture, developed improvement capability at all levels of the organization through a Clinical Safety & Effectiveness training program based in principles of Lean Six Sigma, and maximized performance in multiple regulatory and value-based programmatic initiatives. Additionally, she created, implemented, and led the GME (Graduate Medical Education) quality and safety 24initiatives and aligned resident & faculty physician quality improvement project with organizational population health initiatives.Subsequently, she asked to be the founding Executive Director of The Center for Population Health, Analytics, and Quality Advancement in The School of Rural and Community Health. While there she achieved maximum financial performance of the 1115 Waiver DSRIP program, oversaw externally funded programs Lifestyle Change Programs, the Area health Education Center, and Community Health Care Worker training program.Dr. Bosworth used her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt skillset, experience as a previous Chief Quality Officer and expertise in clinical informatics to successfully perform within the 1115 Waiver DSRIP program. Working with community partners on 43 measures in chronic disease, maternal and fetal safety, dental, behavioral health, and preventive care Dr. Bosworth developed, deployed, and oversaw a Population Health Team consisting of community health workers, medical assistants, and patient service coordinators lead by a Registered Nurse. Dr. Bosworth implemented food insecurity screening in all the primary care clinics, co-developed the Partners in Health program to connect patients with the East Texas Food Bank, and facilitated the deployment of an emergency food box program.Dr. Bosworth has received the UTHSCT Will Avery Family Medicine Educator of the Year award, various poster and quality project recognitions, and an award from the Environmental Protection Agency for excellent management of a mobile asthma clinic. Currently, Dr. Bosworth serves as Principal for Health Management Associates (HMA), an independent, national research and consulting firm specializing in publicly funded healthcare andhuman services policy, programs, financing, and evaluation that serves government, public and private providers, health systems, health plans, community-based organizations, institutional 25investors, foundations, and associations. At HMA, Dr. Bosworth focuses on population health with assisting the transition to value-based care, clinical informatics solutions to improving clinical operations, quality improvement, and leadership coaching.Beyond her passion to improve healthcare, Dr. Bosworth loves to exercise, play with their 4 dogs, cheering for her kids on the soccer pitch, and exploring national parks. She and her family live in Lindale, TX. Read More Read Less
