Med-Vantage Announces Expansion of Senior Management Team.SAN FRANCISCO -- Med-Vantage has announced today that it appointed Kathleen Curtin, MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration , RN as Senior Vice President, Client Services; Brent Metfessel, MD, MS as Vice President of Clinical Informatics and Research; and Joel Garcia as Vice President of Engineering. According to Geof Baker, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , "These professionals bring a wealth of experience in health plan operations, database management and clinical profiling. Their knowledge will help advance our product leadership in pay for performance and public reporting of provider quality and cost of care results." Kathy Curtin will be responsible for building and managing customer relationships with health plans. Before joining Med-Vantage, Ms. Curtin served in senior leadership roles for twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. in quality management for Univera and Excellus Health Plans in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of state. In fall 2002, Ms. Curtin was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Robert Wood Johnson was the name shared by members of the family that descended from the President of Johnson & Johnson:
2. An extraordinary overflow does not change the banks of the river. Poth. Pand. lib. 50, h.t. See Banks of rivers; Riparian proprietors; Rivers. ). The grant made it possible to combine the experience of the two communities and produce a model program with practitioner profiles, improvement tools and incentive programs in HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, products. Dr. Metfessel will be responsible for the development and implementation of new strategies and algorithms that advance the quality and efficiency of health care for Med-Vantage clients. Before joining Med-Vantage, he worked at O'Pin Systems and Ingenix, Inc. for 7 years as Senior Medical Informaticist, including taking on the role of chief designer for major provider and hospital profiling products. He also has experience in evidence-based medicine evidence-based medicine Decision-making 'The use of scientific data to confirm that proposed diagnostic or therapeutic procedures are appropriate in light of their high probability of producing the best and most favorable outcome'. See Meta-analysis. at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, where he was employed as a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Corporate Medical Policy department. Subsequently, Dr. Metfessel worked as Senior Scientist, Evidence-Based Health Care at the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement where he was responsible for the development of Technology Assessments and the application of medical evidence grading strategies to clinical guidelines. Mr. Joel Garcia, Vice President of Engineering for Med-Vantage, is responsible for overseeing technology strategy and directs all software development, architecture and development projects for Med-Vantage health plan customers. Before joining Med-Vantage, Garcia held several key management positions for Symantec Corp. He was a key contributor to Symantec's venture into the enterprise marketplace for Norton AntiVirus, Firewall, and Intrusion Detection. Before Symantec, Garcia held various software management positions for Embarcadero Technologies and is the architect of several of Embarcadero's database products. Med-Vantage(R) is a healthcare informatics company that has attained industry leadership in deploying balanced scorecard applications that improve health care cost and quality. The company delivers consulting services and builds business intelligence applications for health plans in consumer directed healthcare, pay-for-performance, efficiency measurement and quality improvement. www.medvantage.com |
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