Melinda Huffman is an author, writer, consultant, and presenter with over fifteen years of experience in healthcare outcomes management. Her expertise includes clinical outcome systems development, variance, aggregation, trending and analysis, as well as designing outcomes systems for software application and point of care documentation, homecare administration, quality management and performance improvement, employee orientation and staff development, continuing education, designing outcome-based hospital/homecare strategic alliances, integrating outcomes into PI initiatives, marketing and business development, analyzing physician practice patterns relative to outcomes management, correlating financial and clinical patient outcomes, designing outcomes into software applications, and developing best practice care pathways.