Healthcare Leaders Join KLAS Advisory Board

Top healthcare executives to help KLAS drive improvements to the industry.

2013-01-14

OREM, UT, January 14, 2013 (Press-News.org) Three industry-recognized healthcare leaders join KLAS to help provide strategic guidance as members of the company's Advisory Board.

KLAS announced today that the new board members are:

- John Halamka, Chief Information Officer for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts
- Wright Lassiter, Chief Executive Officer for Alameda Medical Center in San Leandro, California
- Denni McColm, Chief Information Officer for Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar, Missouri

"All three individuals possess a wealth of industry insight and want to help make a difference," said KLAS President Adam Gale. "We're extremely excited that they have chosen to join KLAS and engage in the work of improving the world's healthcare by providing transparency to every major healthcare technology and services decision."

The three healthcare executives will join nine others currently serving three-year terms on the KLAS Advisory Board.

To see a listing of current KLAS Advisory Board members, visit www.KLASresearch.com/About/AdvisoryBoard.aspx.

About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and to be counted. Working with thousands of healthcare executives and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment, and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends, and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. KLAS was founded in 1996, and their staff and advisory board average 25 years of healthcare information technology experience. Follow KLAS on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KLASresearch.

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