MedVentive Appoints Nancy G. Brown as Chief Growth Officer

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MedVentive, a market leader of end‐to‐end solutions that improve patient care while strengthening financial performance for health plans and physician groups, is pleased to announce that Nancy G. Brown will join the Company as its new Chief Growth Officer. In her new role, Ms. Brown will head MedVentive's sales, marketing, and business development efforts as the Company looks to expand its industry leading solutions that help payers and provider organizations reduce healthcare costs and improve healthcare quality. Ms. Brown will report to MedVentive President and Chief Executive Officer, Nancy J. Ham, and will also serve on MedVentive’s Board of Directors. Prior to joining MedVentive, Ms. Brown served as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Government Affairs at athenahealth, Inc (Nasdaq: ATHN), a leading provider of internet-based business services to medical groups.

“While many companies are rushing to develop new capabilities that serve the needs of accountable providers, MedVentive has for years been at the leading edge with tools that support at risk providers with practical, tactical solutions.”

“We are thrilled to have a leader of Nancy’s stature join MedVentive. She is uniquely positioned to help us further our leadership position in working with health plans and provider organizations as they address the new market imperative of launching new performance-based incentive payments programs while also realizing measurable increases in quality levels,” said Ham. “Nancy’s more than 25 years of experience leading product strategy and business development efforts at some of the industry’s most innovative healthcare IT firms and care delivery organizations gives her a unique ability to help us and our customers address the industry’s largest clinical and operational challenges.”

“There has never been a time when the healthcare industry has been so focused on fundamental change; change that will shift more and more responsibility for care and costs to providers directly. Throughout my career, I have focused on developing tools that support provider’s ability to make informed decisions about how to care for their patient populations,” said Ms. Brown. “While many companies are rushing to develop new capabilities that serve the needs of accountable providers, MedVentive has for years been at the leading edge with tools that support at risk providers with practical, tactical solutions.”

MedVentive’s comprehensive, proven technology platform engages the entire healthcare continuum through physician collaboration, data transparency, and proactive care improvement on a community basis to measurably increase patient wellness. With a proven ROI, both in terms of increased quality of care and lowering costs, MedVentive clients are leading the industry in achieving real world results.

Prior to joining athenahealth in 2004, Ms. Brown was a Senior Vice President at McKesson Corporation. Ms. Brown joined McKesson in 1999 when it acquired a company she co-founded, Abaton.com, a provider of internet-based clinical solutions for the ambulatory market. Earlier Ms. Brown spent eight years at Harvard Community Health Plan where she held several senior management roles.

About MedVentive

For more than a decade, MedVentive has worked with leading provider organizations and health plans to develop and deploy innovative, clinically sophisticated approaches to successfully reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of patient care. MedVentive offers a fully‐integrated suite of business & clinical intelligence and outreach applications that support best‐in‐class pay for performance programs, physician efficiency profiling, quality intervention, pharmacy management, and point‐of‐care decision support tools – all built on a risk‐adjusted data foundation. Provider groups and health plans use MedVentive technology and services to identify their greatest healthcare improvement opportunities and to act quickly and efficiently to effect change through flexible, tailored solutions. For more information, please visit www.medventive.com.