Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center
Field Staff
Angie Barnett
HITREC Practice Consultant
316-312-6179 (Cell)
abarnett@kfmc.org
Dan Elliott
HITREC Practice Consultant
Chief Information Officer
785-256-0297 (Cell)
delliott@kspca.org
Angela Handke
HITREC Practice Consultant
913-426-1069 (Cell)
ahandke@kfmc.org
University of Kansas in Health Information Management and is certified as a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
Trisha Harkness
HITREC Practice Consultant
620-874-8034 (Cell)
tharkness@kfmc.org
Karlen D. Haury, MBA
HITREC Practice Consultant
316-253-6832 (Cell)
khaury@kfmc.org
Karlen Haury, MBA brings 20+ years of experience in physician office management and consulting to the HITREC Team. Throughout her career, she has worked predominantly with small to mid-size practices and has expertise in the turnaround of unprofitable practices and departments. Her experience includes practice assessment; operational benchmarking; workflow analysis; coding, revenue and expense analysis; grant writing and award administration; regulatory compliance; contract negotiation; human resource management; and project management which includes several computer conversions. She completed her Bachelor and Masters in Business Administration at Baker University.
Mary Monasmith, RHIA
HITREC Practice Consultant
785-244-4609 (Cell)
mmonasmith@kfmc.org
Mary Monasmith, RHIA received her degree from KU and has over 20 years of experience with health information management and at least 15 years of experience with various software vendors on testing, training and implementation of electronic health record systems. She has prior experience working in very small critical access hospitals, nursing homes and larger acute care facilities. She has extensive experience working with vendors to interface systems and has a strong interest in data driven templates, voice recognition and patient portal capabilities. She feels very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with physician offices in this capacity knowing that it can improve the quality of health care provided to so many individuals.
Erin Patrick
HITREC Practice Consultant
785-215-4119 (Cell)
epatrick@kfmc.org
Resource Management, Erin began her career as a Solutions Consultant for Cerner Corporation. She then moved into a management role as Supervisor of Data Quality at a Regional Health Center and then as a Director of Health Information Management and HIPAA Privacy Officer in a small Community Hospital. She has experience in vendor selection, workflow design, build, and implementation as well as human resource management, medical records functions, and HIPAA Privacy and Security.

