Medsphere Systems Welcomes Richard B. Toren to Board of Directors

Experienced health IT entrepreneur brings extensive and varied experience to company vision

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open-source healthcare enterprise solutions, today announced the addition of Richard B. “Rick” Toren to the company’s board of directors. Over a career spanning more than 30 years, Rick has consistently met health and healthcare challenges with a blend of technological creativity and sound business acumen.

“Anyone who knows me knows that I get involved with projects that make a positive social impact and have a strong likelihood of success”

Rick’s experience and perspective are uncommonly broad. He has built and run companies and corporate divisions, and he has also succeeded in the tedious detail work of health and healthcare product development.

“Rick Toren’s resume illustrates quite clearly why Medsphere is honored to welcome him to the board,” said Medsphere President and CEO Mike Doyle. “On both strategic and tactical levels, his skill set is matched by few individuals in the health IT industry. We’re confident his contributions to the board will be effective and enduring.”

In Medsphere, Rick saw an opportunity to contribute to a project that combines two of his primary values.

“Anyone who knows me knows that I get involved with projects that make a positive social impact and have a strong likelihood of success,” Toren said. “I see in Medsphere the opportunity to serve hospitals of all shapes, sizes and specialties. Medsphere and OpenVista’s unique pricing model allows hospitals to deploy an outstanding and proven EHR regardless of financial strength.”

Rick currently serves as chairman and president of CodeRyte, Inc., a technology firm that automates billing code extraction.

For a full bio on Rick Toren, click here.

About Medsphere and OpenVista

Founded in 2002 and based in Carlsbad, Calif., Medsphere Systems Corporation is an award-winning organization of clinical and technology professionals working to make quality health IT solutions accessible to organizations of virtually any size, shape or budget. Medsphere’s OpenVista® is a portfolio of clinical support products and professional services that leverages an electronic health record (EHR) system developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. This VistA EHR is widely credited with helping transform the VA into the nation's most efficient and clinically effective healthcare organization. OpenVista, the most fully commercialized VistA offspring, is a responsible reapplication of the VA’s $8.5 billion investment, which recent studies show have yielded $3.09 billion in benefits, primarily from the near elimination of medication administration issues and duplicate testing.

Medsphere’s subscription-based pricing model enables hospital, clinic and integrated delivery network customers to pay for OpenVista from their operating budget with no upfront costs or back-end balloon payments. Expert implementation and other services facilitate fluid and rapid transition to a paperless clinical environment focusing on best practices and evidence-based medicine in six to nine months. Medsphere also actively nurtures the Healthcare Open Source Ecosystem, a global community of customers, partners, developers and other online collaborators who drive OpenVista innovation, and provide a parallel development and support structure.

Learn more about Medsphere at www.medsphere.com / www.medsphere.org.

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