Joy Rios is Co-Podcast Host at HIT Like a Girl podcast and Broken Healthcare podcast and Co-Founder of Chirpy Bird Health IT Consulting.

Over the past 10 years, she has been a passionate student of value-based care and is determined to share her findings. She has written 5 books on navigating value-based programs:

- MIPS Manual 2020
- MIPS Manual 2019
- Your Ultimate Guide to MIPS, 2018 Edition
- ABC's of Quality Reporting - Your 2016 Roadmap for Health IT Initiatives, including PQRS, Value-based Modifier, and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System
- ABC's of PQRS - Your 2015 Guide to Successfully Participating in the Physician Quality Reporting System

Master of Business Administration
Certified Healthcare Technology Specialist - Practice Workflow (CHTS - PW)
Certified MU/Incentives Audit Specialist (CMAS)

Top 5 Strengths:
- Strategic, Analytical, Achiever, Futuristic, Learner

Skillset:
• Communicating complicated topics in a way that is easily understandable
• Systems thinker
• Ability to work independently or on a project team
• Ability to work effectively with non-technical and technical staff and vendors, including C-Suite
• Reliable and flexible self-starter with the ability to multi-task in a high-stress environment
• People person, knowing how to approach people in time-sensitive pressure situations while maintaining a sense of humor and "going forward" approach to problems
• Proactive attitude and an ability to think laterally, providing ideas and solutions
• Subject Matter Expert in MIPS/MACRA

Goal: To modernize healthcare through EHR and Health IT solutions, in the effort to build value, mitigate risk, improve operating efficiency while also improving outcomes and contributing to a national culture of wellness.

Interests: Population Health, Social Determinates of Health

Specialties: Program and Project Management, MIPS/MACRA, EHR training, Accounting and Financial analysis