Anna Mathias | Project Manager, Health IT and Litigation

Anna Mathias PMP

Director of Project Management

Anna Mathias is a PMP certified Director of Project Management with a focus in organizing, supporting, and substantively contributing to work products related to software litigation, Electronic Health Record (EHR) software quality, regulatory, and patient safety assessments. She is a strong leader and team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including direct management experience and training of 15 cross-functional staff on a five-year, first-of-kind quality oversight project for the ONC/HHS.

Active in all phases of the project lifecycle, from initiating requests and bidding for proposals to managing accounts and executing projects. Anna excels at engaging and communicating with stakeholders to establish reliability and confidence. She has a proven track record of developing organizational structures and building relationships with clients, such as attorneys and major EHR vendors, underscoring her commitment to effective partnership.

Anna is experienced in managing long-running Health IT regulatory oversight programs, contributing to and completing RFPs for the REMS industry, managing and supporting a team of experts in analyzing and advising on software safety and quality, regulations such as CEHRT and Meaningful Use, ISO Standards, and industry best practices for quality and risk management in Health IT software.

Anna regularly manages complex software litigation cases, including patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and breach-of-contract. Her strategic management of litigation processes involves close collaboration with legal teams. This ensures that project goals align with judicial requirements, complementing her broader project management skills and enabling her to deliver comprehensive solutions that meet the demands of stakeholders in high-stakes legal environments.

Summary of Qualifications

  • Manage multiple ongoing projects including Government Audits, Regulatory Consulting, Litigation Cases, Research Projects, and Med Malpractice Cases
  • Responsible for managing the expert consultant work product of the 15-person Software Quality Oversight team for a large Electronic Health Record Vendor as contracted under a first of kind 5-year Corporate Integrity Agreement administered jointly by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and the Office of the Inspector General of the United States (OIG)
  • Plan, coordinate, write, edit, and submit final work product to clients
  • Perform and provide support during the audit of a HIT software company’s development lifecycle practices, including the design, development, testing, and deployment of software, with a focus on understanding and mitigating defects that could implicate patient safety or EHR certification
  • Interface with Clients and internal Leadership regarding organizational aspects of projects, including managing documents, information requests, and associated data, as well as tracking progress toward attainment of project milestones
  • Train employees and contract consultants on internal and external computer systems, policies, procedures, and tools
    Assist the Division Vice President with business development activities, procurement of resources, contract review,
    completion of RFPs, and development of internal policies and procedures
  • Manages and supports a team of experts’ analysis and guidance involving the safety and quality of software, regulations such as CEHRT and Meaningful Use, ISO Standards, and industry best practices for quality and risk management in Health IT software.

Management, Audits, & Compliance Consulting

  • Bluesight, Inc. |
    Project manager for a team performing management advisory services related to assessment of effectiveness of organizational strategy as executed through technology processes and functions, people, structure, and culture.
  • REMS–Data, Quality, Process and Systems Review
    CLIENT CONFIDENTIAL
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    Project manager for a team performing independent, internal data, quality, process and systems review for a major FDA-regulated REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) program and for a popular generic medication with serious side effects.
  • MedAdvisor Solutions |
    Project manager for a team performing advisory services related to implementing a robust product management function along with a standard software development lifecycle process (SDLC).
  • eClinicalWorks, LLC and the Office of the Inspector General of
    HHS Software Quality Oversight Organization
    |
    Project Manager for a team of 15 serving as the Software Quality Oversight Organization (SQOO) under the Corporate Integrity Agreement between eClinicalWorks, LLC. and the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services dated May 30, 2017. The SQOO Team serves as an independent audit and oversight organization covering a technical review of EHR software and development processes as it relates to patient safety.
    Press Release: EHR Vendor Pays $155M to Settle FCA Allegations
  • Greenway Health |
    Project Manager for a team performing consultation regarding compliance and regulatory matters for Certified Health IT software.
  • Integra Connect |
    Project Manager for a team of Consultants performing gap analysis and recommendations for improving compliance with CEHRT regulations for Certified Health IT software.
Research Projects
  • NCPDP Foundation Research Grant |
    Project Manager for a team of Subject Matter Experts completing a research project pertaining to RxChange Request and Response Transactions. The research will inform best practices to further enhance adoption and optimization of these transactions.

Litigation Consulting

  • Richard Chance v. Totem Technologies, Inc |
    Jurisdiction: State of OK, District Court of Tulsa County
    Case Number: CJ-2023-02533
    Counsel: Actuate Law, LLC
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret
  • USA v. Hytera Communications Corporation, Ltd et al. |
    Jurisdiction: US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
    Case Number: 1:20-cr-00688
    Counsel: U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of Illinois
    Nature of Suit: Criminal, Trade Secret
  • iSpot.tv, Inc. v. Nadya Teyfukova and Entertainment Data Oracle, Inc.

    Jurisdiction: US District Court for the Central District of California
    Case Number: 2:21-cv-06815
    Counsel: Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret, Breach-of-Contract
  • Lexos Media IP, LLC v.
    Northern Tool & Equipment Company, Inc
    |
    Jurisdiction: US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
    Case Number: 2:2022cv00355 (filed September 12, 2022)
    Counsel:Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
    Nature of Suit: Patent
    Role: Served as Project Manager
  • University of Victoria v. FreshWorks Studio Inc |
    Jurisdiction: BC Supreme Court
    Case Number: S-226081
    Counsel: Smart & Biggar LLP
    Nature of Suit: Patent
    Role: Served as Project Manager
  • Lifescience Technologies, LLC v. Mercy Health, Mercy ACO Clinical Services, Inc and Myia Labs, Inc

    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
    Counsel: Stinson LLP
    Nature of Suit: breach of contract, trade secret
    Role: Project Manager
  • K+S Potash Canada General Partnership v.
    Veolia Water Technologies Inc
     |
    Jurisdiction: Court Of Queen’s Bench For Saskatchewan
    Case Number: QB No. 817 (filed 2018)
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Counsel: Stikeman Elliott LLP
    Technology: Plant Design Management Systems (PDMS), Clash Detection, Database synchronization
    Role: Served as Project Manager
  • Robotic Vision Technologies Inc v. ABB Inc |
    Jurisdiction: Delaware District Court
    Case Number: 1:22-cv-01257
    Counsel: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC
    Nature of Suit: Patent, Trade Secret and Copyright Infringement
    Technology: Robotic computer vision, gripper targeting, feature selection and identification
  • Brady and Macy Ingram v. Cerner Corporation |
    Jurisdiction: Circuit Court Of Jefferson County, Alabama
    Case Number: 2020-902915.00-DEB
    Counsel: Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, LLP
    Nature of Suit: Medical malpractice
  • Angela Prieto v. Rush University Medical Center |
    Jurisdiction: Circuit Court, Cook County Illinois
    Case Number: 18 L 003531
    Counsel: Swanson, Martin & Bell LLP
    Nature of Suit: Medical malpractice
    View Illinois Supreme Court ruling
  • Masonicare Corporation v. Cerner Corporation |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court District of Connecticut
    Counsel: Blank Rome LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach of contract
  • Tanya Svoboda v.
    Amazon.com, Inc, and Amazon.com Services LLC
    |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court District of Illinois
    Counsel: Keogh Law, LTD.
    Nature of Suit: Privacy Class Action
  • The Nielsen Company (US), LLC. v. TVision Insights, Inc |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court District of Delaware
    Counsel: Keogh Law, LTD.
    Nature of Suit: Patent Infringement
Other Consulting Assignments
  • Pre-litigation Patent Infringement Assessment |
    Technology: mobile gaming, geolocation, user and device verification, jailbreak detection, proxy detection, Bluetooth beacon, ad delivery, biometric authentication.
  • Confidential Investigation |
    Nature of suit: Illinois Biometric information Privacy Act (BIPA)
    Technology: optical fingerprint readers and time clocks, network traffic capture, SQL monitoring.
  • C3 AI. |
    Nature of Suit: Intellectual Property investigation and audit
    Retained by: C3 AI, Inc
    Technology: machine learning; AI cloud and big data infrastructure
    Role: Project Manager

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