Vicki Estrin
Senior Consultant, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health
vicki.y.estrin@vanderbilt.edu

Ms. Estrin is a Senior Consultant in the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health. Her primary role will be to coordinate the regional informatics activities surrounding the six-month Health Information Technology planning initiative commissioned by Governor Bredesen and to work in the same capacity in state-wide demonstration projects and planning. She will also help coordinate a related activity – the collaboration between the Regional Medical Center at Memphis (the Med) and Vanderbilt.

Ms. Estrin trained in Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech and later in Healthcare Administration at the University of Wisconsin. After several years in industrial engineering projects at Vanderbilt, Ms. Estrin served as co-lead of a major performance improvement initiative for the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. In this capacity, she coordinated internal projects for interdepartmental improvement efforts and worked with over 80 community hospitals in the areas of performance improvement, management engineering, information systems analysis, and patient acuity systems.

Returning to Nashville, Ms. Estrin consulted with over hospitals’ boards of trustees, senior management teams, medical staffs and department directors in planning and performance improvement activities. She advanced within her firm and directed sixteen consultants and staff in two consulting practices focusing on productivity management and strategic quality management (SQM). She directed research and development to create products and services to assist rural healthcare facilities with cost reduction and cost management strategies. She also served as a project manager for a productivity and benchmarking system used by over 200 hospitals. She knows Tennessee health care.

Ms. Estrin arrives at a critical juncture in Vanderbilt’s efforts to become a national leader in regional informatics initiatives. She is an engaging “hands on” professional who will be an engaging partner in our efforts within the Center for Better Health, the Department of Biomedical Informatics, the Medical Center, and the State of Tennessee.