Health IT Appointments and Hires 2015

Kareo Adds Cornerstone OnDemand Co-Founder and CFO Perry Wallack to BOD
Kareo (@GoKareo), a provider of cloud-based solutions for independent medical practices, announced the addition of Perry Wallack, co-founder and CFO of Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., to its board of directors. As the company enters its next phase of growth, Wallack will provide additional financial and operational depth to the Kareo Board of Directors and will serve as a valuable resource for company leadership as Kareo pursues its mission to help small medical practices succeed.

HIPAA Secure Now! Appoints Jonathan Krasner to Head Business Development, Grow MSP Partner Base, Help Partners Succeed
HIPAA Secure Now! (@HIPAASecureNow), a HIPAA compliance service provider, has named Jonathan Krasner to the position of Director of Business Development. Krasner was hired to expand the company’s MSP (managed service provider) partner program and nurture those relationships. Krasner will help partners grow their businesses and increase sales of HIPAA Secure Now’s award-winning risk assessment, policies and procedures, and employee training program to their medical practice clients.

DynoSense Adds Accomplished Global Executives Dr. Pantas Sutardja and Mr. Paul Chau to Its BOD
Digital health innovator DynoSense (@DynoSense) has announced that it has appointed Dr. Pantas Sutardja and Mr. Paul Chau to its board of directors. With extensive experience in technology, finance and global corporate development, the two join DynoSense as the company continues towards regulatory approval and commercialization of its Dyno technology. The Dyno is the world’s first fully integrated multi-function health scanner technology that can capture more than 33 critical health metrics in less than 60 seconds with a single user action. The captured health data is securely and wirelessly uploaded to the company’s cloud computing platform for further analytics and processing, and is then communicated to healthcare professionals.

Clinical Ink Appoints Jonathan Andrus as Chief Data Officer
Clinical Ink (@ClinicalInk), a provider of purpose-built eSource and patient engagement technology solutions for clinical development, announced that Jonathan Andrus will join the company as chief data officer (CDO). In this newly created role, Andrus will lead Clinical Ink’s global data management to help drug sponsors better leverage eSource, ePRO and patient engagement data to improve clinical trial quality, efficiency and outcomes.

Steven J. Stack, M.D., Inaugurated as 170th President of AMA
Steven J. Stack, M.D., an emergency physician practicing in Lexington, Ky., has been sworn in as the 170th president of the American Medical Association (AMA) (@AmerMedicalAssn), the nation’s largest physician organization. Stack, who is the organization’s youngest president in the past 160 years, will focus his tenure on advancing the AMA’s three strategic areas: improving health outcomes for the 86 million Americans living with pre-diabetes and the 70 million with hypertension; accelerating change in medical education to ensure physicians are prepared to meet the needs of a 21st Century health care system; and enhancing physician satisfaction and practice sustainability. Read press release.

Hovious Named Nashville Health Care Council President
The Nashville Health Care Council (@NashHCC) Board of Directors announced that Hayley Hovious has been named president of the organization, effective June 1, 2015.

See previously reported hires and appointments on the next pages.