Health IT Appointments and Hires 2015

Harry Totonis Named to PDR Board of Directors
The Board of Directors of PDR, LLC (PDR®) (@PDR_Networkannounced the appointment of Harry Totonis, an accomplished Health Information Technology (HIT) innovator with an exceptional track record of success as an independent director of the firm.

Univita Health Appoints Dr. Darwin Caraballo as Senior Vice President and Medical Director
Univita Health, the nationwide leader in post-acute and home healthcare solutions, has appointed Darwin Caraballo, M.D., as Senior Vice President and Medical Director. Dr. Caraballo is a family medicine, board-certified physician who brings more than 15 years of leadership experience with deep managed care knowledge and expertise in utilization and care management strategies.

Healthix Appoints New Chief Information Officer
Todd M. Rogow, MPA, CSM, PMP has joined Healthix, Inc. (@healthix) as the new Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, where he will be responsible for providing the vision, strategy and day-to-day operational leadership for all technical aspects of Healthix.

Dennis Lund, MD, to Join Stanford Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford as Chief Medical Officer
Pediatric surgeon and hospital leader Dennis Lund, MD, will join Stanford Children’s Health (@StanfordChild) and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford on March 16 as the organization’s new chief medical officer.

Indiana Health Information Exchange Names John P. Kansky as President and CEO
The Indiana Health Information Exchange (@IndianaHIEannounced that its Board of Directors named John P. Kansky as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. He has served the role in an interim capacity since June 2014. Kansky, who has been with IHIE since 2007, will lead IHIE’s unique coalition of over 100 hospitals, which supports the care of over six million patients with over three billion pieces of clinical data.

OsteoRemedies® appoints Eric A. Stookey as Chief Operating Officer
OsteoRemedies, LLC, a company focused on providing simple solutions to complex disorders currently not addressed in the musculoskeletal market, is pleased to announce Eric A. Stookey has been appointed Chief Operating Officer, effective March 1, 2015.

Software Industry Veteran Alan Mateo Joins Veeva Systems as Executive Vice President of Global Sales
Veeva Systems (@veevasystemsannounced industry veteran Alan Mateo will join the company in mid-April as executive vice president of global sales. Mateo will lead Veeva’s worldwide sales force at a time when the company is growing globally and rapidly expanding its customer relationships. He will report to Veeva CEO, Peter Gassner.

CHIME and AMDIS Sign Management Services Agreement, Appoint New Executive Vice President of Medical Informatics and Patient Safety
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) (@CIOCHIME) the healthcare industry’s leading professional organization for CIOs and senior IT executives, announced it has a new agreement to provide management services to the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), the nation’s largest professional association for physicians dedicated to and responsible for health information technology.

Kindred Names Jon B. Rousseau Executive Vice President and President of RehabCare
Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (@kindredhealth) announced that Jon B. Rousseau, President of Kindred’s Care Management Division, has been named Executive Vice President and President of RehabCare, effective with the April 1, 2015 retirement of Patricia M. Henry. In addition, Kindred announced that William M. Altman, Executive Vice President for Strategy, Policy and Integrated Care, will assume responsibilities for Kindred’s care management operations. Mr. Rousseau will report to Kindred’s Chief Operating Officer, Kent H. Wallace, and Mr. Altman will report to Benjamin A. Breier, Kindred’s President and Chief Executive Officer-elect.

NextGen Healthcare Enterprise Architect Elected to Chair HIMSS EHR Association Privacy and Security Workgroup
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC (@NextGen), a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems, services and connectivity solutions, announced that William F. Kinsley, an enterprise architect in the Company’s research and development department, has been appointed to serve as chair of the Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) Privacy and Security Workgroup.

Richard B. Toren Becomes President of Atigeo Healthcare
Atigeo™ (@atigeo), a compassionate technology company, announced the addition of Richard B. “Rick” Toren as President of Atigeo Healthcare. Toren currently serves on Atigeo’s healthcare board of advisors that includes Claude D. Benchimol, Ph.D., a former GE Healthcare executive, and Phillip M. Nudelman, Ph.D., former chairman and CEO of Kaiser Group Health.

T-System Renews Commitment to Clinically-Driven Innovation and Appoints Industry Leader as CNO
T-System Inc. (@TSystemannounced the appointment of Janie Schumaker, RN, BSN, MBA, CEN, CPHQ, FABC as the company’s chief nursing officer along with a renewed commitment to clinically-focused innovation for unscheduled, episodic care.

See previously reported hires and appointments on the next pages.