Case Studies

  • General Motors/EDS
    • I went through a rigorous training program established by Ross Perot at EDS
    • Learned COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS, and DB2
    • Applied those skills in support of the General Motors Accounts Payable System
    • Wrote and maintained COBOL and JCL dealing with millions of dollars per day
  • Cerner
    • Used COBOL skills to format data and interface disparate health care systems to Cerner Pathnet
    • Led technical teams in the transition from COBOL/Mainframe to Client Server/PC technologies
    • Worked in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States
    • Transitioned several hospitals from legacy based systems to PC based systems
  • Sircon Systems (acquired by Vertafore)
    • Insurance Regulation and Compliance
    • Wrote code in Java, HTML, and Javascript
    • Active in all 50 states of the United States
    • Helps States implement regulation for compliance
    • Helps insurance companies comply with those regulations and automate business processes
  • Epic Systems
    • Epic is the #1 provider of Electronic Health Record Systems in the United States
    • Whall Consulting has helped several hospitals implement the Epic system
      • Lakeland Health in St. Joseph, Michigan
      • Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan
      • St. Lukes University Health Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania
    • Primarily responsible for systems integration of business, clinical, and insurance systems
      • Realtime and Batch Processing
      • Integrated systems using HL7 with the Cloverleaf interface engine
      • Written custom programs and protocols in TCL, the language of Cloverleaf
  • Health Care
    • I have worked in and for several hospitals over the years
    • St. Johns Health in Detroit
    • University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
    • NHS in the United Kingdom
    • Many other hospitals as an employee of Cerner