Dr. Michele Bosworth is a physician leader dedicated to improving the delivery of healthcare through strategic use of improvement methodologies and tools, collaboration, and organizational priority alignment. She joined HMA after serving in various leadership positions with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler (UTHSCT) with her latest role being the founding executive director of the UTHSCT Center for Population Health, Analytics, and Quality Advancement, overseeing 1115 Waiver DSRIP program (achieving 100% performance in 43 quality measures), Community Health Worker program, Diabetes Prevention Program, Population Health Team consisting of community health workers, medical assistants, and patient service coordinators lead by a Registered Nurse to manage patient health needs and visit expectations, post-visit behavioral health management, and transitional care management. Dr. Bosworth has also served as Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO), got board certification in clinical informatics, and leading the implementation and optimization of EHR and HIT initiatives while ensuring the procurement of meaningful data for performance improvement. She also facilitated many telehealth initiatives with psychiatry, psychology, and supportive care. Under her leadership as CMIO, she led various EHR implementations, upgrades, and optimization initiatives such as standardization of medication reconciliation, referral management, and Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE). Dr. Bosworth developed, deployed, and lead the Clinical Informatics Governance and authored associated policies and procedures necessitating optimal and meaningful use of the EHR. Lastly, regulatory accomplishments included maximized performance with Meaningful Use, MIPS, and achieving HIMSS Level 6.
During her tenure as Chief Quality Officer, she partnered with health plans to maximize star rating performance and facilitated shared savings agreements. Additionally, she created, implemented, and led the graduate medical education’s quality and safety initiatives and aligned resident & faculty physician quality improvement project with organizational population health initiatives. She and her team adapted the UT Systems Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Certification program for local delivery based on DMAIC and trained residents, faculty, staff, and administrators while facilitating both single and multi-service line QI projects.
As a practicing family physician, she worked in the UTHSCT Family Medicine Residency Program as core faculty and became the program’s clinic director. She completed her family medicine residency training at Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) in Asheville, North Carolina where she was asked to develop and operate MAHEC’s first satellite clinic upon graduation. As such, Dr. Bosworth served as the founding medical director for MAHEC’s Cane Creek Family Health Center in Fairview, North Carolina where she practiced full-spectrum family medicine whilst maintaining a teaching faculty presence in the MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Program.
She earned a Medical Doctorate at West Virginia School of Medicine in Morgantown, West Virginia, as well as a bachelor’s degree in biology from West Virginia University. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a diplomat of the American Board of Preventive Medicine in clinical informatics, and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.