Richard specializes in operations improvement, post-merger consolidation, and information systems integration for hospital and independent laboratories. He served as the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of CliniTech Services, Inc., a multi hospital joint venture commercial laboratory that he was instrumental in starting in Massachusetts. Richard has extensive experience in academic medical centers, community hospitals, commercial laboratories, physician hospital organizations and HMOs and is the owner .

Richard’s expertise includes health system integration & consolidation, operations management, operations analysis & improvement, data modeling & decision support system development, CMS laboratory sanction response management, information system integration, lean/six sigma process improvement. He is a certified Lean/Six Sigma Master Black Belt, a certified medical technologist MT(ASCP, and has served as adjunct faculty for Assumption College, Worcester Massachusetts teaching courses in ‘Healthcare Finance’ and ‘Healthcare Information Systems’. Richard is an Advisory Board member of Washington G-2 Reports and he speaks regularly at some of the industry’s largest conferences.