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Initiate Systems Builds Healthcare Practice With New Senior Vice President and Directors

Posted on: Monday, 13 February 2006, 09:00 CST

Initiate Systems, Inc., the recognized standard in enterprise master person index (EMPI) software for the healthcare industry, today announced that R. Scott Harper has joined the company as senior vice president and general manager of its healthcare practice. As part of a major expansion of its successful healthcare organization, Initiate has also hired a senior director of healthcare alliances, a director of regional healthcare information organization (RHIO) sales and a director of national healthcare organizations.

"With these new hires, Initiate continues its expansion and market leadership in the healthcare EMPI market," said Bill Conroy, president and CEO of Initiate Systems. "Scott Harper is a proven leader -- no one has a better track record for strategic business expansion in the enterprise healthcare integration and healthcare solutions market."

Harper has 20 years of experience with healthcare technology companies, including McKesson, Cerner, SeeBeyond and Sybase. In 10 years at SeeBeyond, Harper led the company's North American healthcare business, established it as the leading enterprise application integration vendor and pioneered its move into the master patient index, HIPAA transaction architecture and integration-based composite application markets. As senior vice president and general manager of Initiate Systems' healthcare practice, Harper is responsible for overall healthcare strategy and tactical implementation. Harper oversees direct sales, sales operations, customer satisfaction and strategic alliances.

"With its leadership in EMPI, Initiate is the right company at the right time," said Harper. "Accurate patient identification is the foundation of EHRs and interoperability -- and Initiate's technology is simply the best for delivering the benefits of these initiatives, which are the future of healthcare."

Initiate also hired Duncan Arnold as its senior director of healthcare alliances. Arnold is responsible for expanding Initiate's third-party healthcare channels, such as systems integrators, resellers, value-added resellers and independent software vendors. Arnold was formerly the director of channel sales for WebMethods and managed and directed healthcare alliances for Sybase and SeeBeyond.

Michael Warthen joins Initiate as director of RHIO sales, a major focus of Initiate's healthcare business expansion. Warthen previously was the vice president of sales and business development for 4medica. He also held strategic management positions with IBM, Cerner, SMS (Siemens) and SeeBeyond and is the founder of MedAssure.

David Pulver, Initiate's new director of national healthcare organizations, is responsible for developing national accounts, focusing on the 15 to 20 largest national organizations within the healthcare provider market. Pulver was most recently a vice president of sales at Misys Healthcare and has held vice president positions at Sunquest and HBO & Company (now McKesson).

More than 600 Healthcare Customers Have Relied on Initiate Systems

More than 50 healthcare organizations have deployed Initiate Identity Hub(TM) software, and more than 600 have relied on Initiate for patient data quality remediation services. Initiate Identity Hub(TM) software is the most accurate, scalable and rapidly implemented EMPI solution available for healthcare providers, integrated delivery networks (IDNs) and RHIOs that want to improve patient identification and customer satisfaction, protect data privacy and security, enable interoperability and provide a critical foundation for electronic health record (EHR) implementations. Initiate(TM) software and services enable strategic initiatives that allow healthcare organizations to improve patient safety and care, provide new services and ensure regulatory compliance.

For more information on Initiate Systems, visit Booth 2427 at HIMSS or www.initiatesystems.com.

About Initiate Systems

Initiate Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of software for companies, organizations and government agencies that want to create the most complete, real-time views of people, households and organizations from data dispersed across multiple application systems and databases. Initiate Identity Hub(TM) software is more accurate, scalable, rapidly deployed and widely used than any other customer data integration and enterprise master person index solution. Many organizations in the financial services, government, healthcare, hospitality and retail sectors are using Initiate(TM) software to deliver the right data at the right time to all critical touch points. Initiate's proven experience makes it uniquely qualified to enable strategic initiatives that allow organizations to increase revenue and efficiency and reduce operating costs and risks.

Source: Business Wire

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