In his role as CEO, Derek is responsible for developing and implementing strategic plans for the company, creating business development action plans for business growth, improving customer and employee satisfaction to increase retention rates, and achieving financial goals for the company. He has over 30 years’ experience in the healthcare technology and technology-enabled service solutions business with specific expertise within eMDs core healthcare markets including Practice Management, EHR, and RCM solutions at small and large companies.
Prior to joining eMDs, Derek was the CEO of Convergent Revenue Cycle Management, Inc. where he managed the strategic direction, financial and operational performance, as well as the sales and marketing for the Healthcare Division. Before Convergent, he held multiple senior executive level positions focused on the success and growth of software and revenue cycle outsourcing solutions for healthcare providers. Derek has proven success in driving strategies and operational execution, growing revenue and maintaining high levels of customer and employee satisfaction.
Derek has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics/Business Administration with an emphasis on Computer Science and Political Science from Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA.
Benedikt began his journey with CGM in 2010 at CompuGroup Medical SE & Co. KGaA as Head of Group Controlling in its Finance Unit. After two years, he became the General Manager of CGM’s Italy market, where he led the company to be the market leader in both the general practitioner software business and pharmacy software, while also entering the dental software market for the company.
Before landing in the US, Benedikt served as Senior Vice President of Southern and Western Europe, where he oversaw operations in Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Turkey, and the Netherlands. He was responsible for entering new markets and promoting a rapid growth in CGM’s global pharmacy software business.
Prior to joining CGM, Benedikt served as an international business consultant and as an auditor for the accounting firm KPMG in both Germany and Luxembourg. He was involved with The Red Cross in Italy after the devastating earthquakes, as well as Lega del Filo d’Oro, which supports blind and deaf children.
Neil brings a strong combination of operational and technology leadership to his role as Chief Operating Officer at eMDs. Neil drives eMDs vision by delivering innovative solutions in all aspects of operations, product management, support and implementation for the benefit of our partners, customers and their patients. His goal is to ensure that eMDs offerings continue to bring revolutionary, award winning and easy to use solutions to the Healthcare marketplace.
Before joining eMDs, Neil was the COO of Aprima Medical Software, a position he held for almost 15 years. He played a crucial role in taking Aprima from a small start-up to an industry leading, best in KLAS company that was acquired by eMDs in 2019. Prior to Aprima, he was GE Healthcare’s General Manager in charge of Centricity Physician Office products. Before that, Neil was Vice President of Operations and Chief Technology Officer at Millbrook Corporation, one of the nation’s top physician practice management vendors, where his vision led the product development group. He also oversaw technical support, training, and information technology.
A software veteran, Neil began his 33 years of progressive experience in the design and development of healthcare IT by writing a practice management system for an ophthalmological practice at the tender age of 17. He leveraged this into his career at Millbrook being the original designer and architect creating the industry leading Windows based practice management system in the 90s. This software is still being used more than 20 years later.
Neil’s passion for Healthcare IT is recognized and appreciated through his participation in industry organizations that help promote the interoperability in the healthcare environment. These include being an advisory board member of the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) and SureScripts. He also participated in HIMSS, HIMSS EHR Association, and Commonwell Health Alliance. At MS-HUG he helped develop the first product neutral integration effort called Active-X for Healthcare.
Neil received his dual bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin.
Patrick Hall has over two decades of expertise in the healthcare software industry. As eMDs grew, he has worked with thousands of customers and their interests in numerous areas including software product management, customer operations. He is a passionate advocate for satisfaction and speed. Patrick currently leads the Marketing Department and Business Partnerships and is actively involved in software and business strategy.
Patrick has been involved in projects that include to HIPAA ANSI X.12 electronic data interchange formats, the NPI transition, printed claim form changes for CMS-1500 and UB formats, Meaningful Use and Regional Extension Center partnerships, and more recently ICD-10 impacts on the practice management products. He joined the company in 1997 as a result of eMDs’ EasyWare acquisition. Patrick is a graduate of The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (formerly Cape Technikon) in Cape Town, South Africa where he received the Marketer of the Year award.
In his role as CTIO, Rick is responsible for all technology groups at eMDs. Rick is also in charge of ensuring that eMDs continues to innovate, bringing new and practical solutions that both meet today’s business and clinical needs of our diverse group of customers and partners, and also helps them continue to be technology leaders for their patients and customers.
Rick brings over 37 years’ experience in leading Product Management, Development, IT and Operational teams. Most recently he was the CTO with Alchemy Systems and managed IT and development teams in Austin, Montana, Toronto and Guelph, Ontario with nearshore teams in Costa Rica and Argentina. Prior to Alchemy, Rick was VP of the Payment Solutions Group at ACS, a Xerox company. Here, Rick led the technical services organization responsible for delivery and support of the electronic payment solutions in the Government Solutions Group. Prior to that, Rick was president and CEO of ClearCube and VDIworks — pioneers in the PC Desktop Blade and Virtualization market. In addition, Rick spent five years at Dell in a number of strategic roles, including director and GM of the Linux Systems Group. He also worked for 15 years at IBM in the RS/6000 division in various middle management positions.
Rick received both his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
In his role as Chief Growth Officer, Scott is responsible for customer strategy and execution including the design and orchestration of programs to maximize the customer experience and satisfaction across eMDs wide range of customer interactions. Scott’s priority is ensuring eMDs delivers optimal value and a unified experience across the entire customer journey. Scott also leads the eMDs sales organization. This includes both the direct and VAR channel sales teams.
Scott has been consulting with Physicians and Health Systems on innovative technology and service solutions for close to two decades. He started his career with a value added reseller in Indianapolis, IN focused on Practice Management and ancillary systems for independent providers. In 2006, Scott joined McKesson where he eventually led all sales efforts within the independent channel of Business Performance Services (BPS). Scott received his Bachelors in Business Administration specializing in Marketing and Management from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. In May 2016, he completed his Executive MBA from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.
Monica joined eMDs in 2012 to drive strategic HR initiatives for the organization. She brings over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing employee benefit program and leading human resources functions and activities. The majority of her experience has been in the Healthcare industry with a specific focus in the Health IT arena. She brings an expertise in the integration of companies following mergers and acquisitions. Monica graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
Gina is an accomplished and results driven leader with over 30 years of healthcare experience. Gina has broad expertise leading Account Management, Customer Support, Professional Services, Sales, Research/Development and General Management teams across multiple industry segments including Physicians, Health Systems, Payers and Partner segments.
Her career started with a specialty group of physicians as the Business Officer Manager. In 1994 Gina joined McKesson and has continually demonstrated exceptional results by building and maintaining strong and mutually beneficial relationships with customers, team members and business partners. Her focus on staff development, operational excellence and innovation has led to transformational improvement for customers, shareholders and team members. Gina has a unique blend of leadership, vision and knowledge enabling her to successfully define and execute key strategies that strengthen customer relationships, increase revenue and drive market share.
Gina and her husband have 3 grown children and nine grandchildren. They are lifelong residents of Minnesota but recently bought a condo in Wisconsin on the Mississippi River. As new boat owners, Gina plans to spend her free time relaxing with her family and soaking up the sunshine on the river.
Michael Liter joined eMDs in 2010 and leads our team of Account Executives in supporting our clients in implementation of best practices related to the effective utilization of the eMDs Total Solution. Michael has more than 15 years of experience in health care operations, including hospital and physician revenue cycle management, EMR, coding, consulting and software implementations. An accomplished revenue cycle executive leader, Michael has expertise in consolidating and standardizing operations through the streamline delivery of products & services within revenue cycle industry.
Before joining eMDs, Michael served as the Director of Revenue Cycle Corporate Affiliates at Indiana University Health, where he was responsible for developing, implementing, integrating and supporting a centralized revenue cycle operation for start-up hospitals and large multi-specialty physician practices throughout the state.
Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Information Administration from Indiana University.
Tanveer, heads the eMDs India operations as Chief Operating Officer. He drives the core operations across all verticals including shared services and is responsible for achieving financial goals, strategic plans, business growth, business continuity plans, improving CSat, developing a culture of meritocracy and to build a winning team.
Tanveer, has more than 20 years of executive management experience at multinational corporations in various leadership positions spanning multi-country operations and across operations, process transformation, consulting, account management, human resource, IT, compliance, administration, finance, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, general management and board directorship.
Tanveer, has extensive experience in BFSI and US healthcare business – inpatient (physician, provider) and outpatient (emergency and ambulatory), single to multi-specialty and hospital chains (enterprise), patient financial services and health plans.
Tanveer, has a proven track record enabling clients, including organizations ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500. He has consistently demonstrated exemplary success with progressively responsible leadership & management skills with a strong focus on top line, bottom line, execution, internal controls & a passion for client satisfaction.
Prior to joining eMDs, Tanveer was associated with IKS Health as Vice President, Operations leading the multi-channel and multi-specialty business for QSI. Prior to IKS Health, he has held several leadership positions with Accenture, Hinduja Global Solutions, HSBC, Apollo Health Street and Accretive Health.
Tanveer holds Bachelors in Computer Science and Higher Diploma in Software Engineering. He is certified in Medical Claims & Automated Claim Adjudication System (ACAS) from Aetna Inc., Mastering Test Plan Development & Design from ASPE, Consumer Lending & Testing from HSBC, Anti Money Laundering from eMind, ISO 9001:2000 Auditor from TUV South Asia, Bullet Proof Manager from Crestcom International. He is an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), PMP Chapter of North India, PMI International Development Community of Practice and Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMI).
Sheila Stine serves as eMDs Chief Legal Counsel. She has over two decades of legal experience in technology, health law, privacy and security in both the public and private sectors. Sheila has expertise in technology transactions, data privacy laws, cybersecurity, and data breach preparation and breach triage. She has overseen and led triage of thousands of data breaches, including a number of high-profile events, for public and private entities. She has implemented privacy, security and breach governance programs; drafted and advised on the development of health laws and advised on health law transactions for numerous healthcare providers and plans.
Previously, she served as the first Chief Privacy Officer and Special Counsel for the State of Texas Health and Human Services System and oversaw one of the largest public privacy offices in the county. She also served in health care general and special counsel roles for other government agencies and large law firms.
Sheila earned a J.D. with honors from South Texas College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with honors from the University of Houston.
Iser Cukierman joined eMDs as Chief Financial Officer with over two decades of experience leading financial operations for multi-million dollar organizations as well as early-stage and emerging growth companies. His experience as a finance executive carries a dignified track record working with rapid-growth organizations. He has been a primary stakeholder in complex financial reporting, corporate acquisitions, investor relations and venture capital funding and global expansions.
Iser has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas and is a Certified Public Accountant.
The Office of the Chief Medical Officer consists of respected physicians who understand the importance of expert solutions that lead to healthier patients. These actively practicing, engaged doctors utilize eMDs services and solutions in their own practices while providing valuable feedback to the eMDs team, ensuring we remain anchored by practical, and help us create practical, ClickLESS solutions.
Dr. Jeffrey Hyman completed his internship and residency at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn New York, in 1984, under the guidance and mentorship of Dr. David Grob, a pioneer in myasthenia gravis research. Directly after that in September 1984, Dr. Hyman started one of the “first walk in no appointment needed” primary care offices in Brooklyn NY, The Treat and Release Center of Bay Ridge Brooklyn. It was there where the focus of primary care and preventive health become the center of his medical expertise.
Dr. Paul Schwartz founded Shasta Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in 1993 and has been leading minimally invasive surgical techniques, computer assisted surgery, robotics in surgery, and shoulder reconstructive surgery for over 25 years.
Dr. Paul Schwartz graduated from Mayo Medical School, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN in 1982. His extensive experience includes the Naval Hospital in San Diego, where he did his orthopaedic surgery residency, as well as the Naval Hospital in Roosevelt Roads Puerto Rico where he served during the Gulf War.
Dr. Weidmann completed his Central Texas Medical Foundation Family Practice Residency between 1985 and 1988. From there he stayed as Assistant Director (1989-1991) and Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (1989-2001). After his time at UT-Galveston, Dr. Weidmann continued his passion for ACCME accredited medical education and primary care based research via Primary Care Network (PCN) as his current role of Board Chairman of PCN. In 1989 Dr. Weidmann joined South Austin Medical Clinic, a busy 9 Family Doctor full service suburban practice. His significant medical experience also includes: practice management, managed care contracting, cost of care oversight, healthcare networks, liability mitigation, device interfaces, fault tolerant systems.
He competed a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Block at The University of Texas at Austin in 1981. This was followed by a Doctor of Medicine at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas in 1985. The emergence in the mid 1990s of electronic data support for medical practice was a natural and welcome domain for him. Beginning in 1998 and advancing through today, he has contributed to development, testing, deployment and improvement of healthcare data systems. Dr. Weidmann became an enthusiastic participant starting with early versions of wireless LAN based electronic prescribing through today’s advancement toward interoperative local and cloud based systems with decision support and toward the integration of patient into the data care stream. He is involved with a range of systems – from those simply intended to reduce handwriting errors to integrations that reduce inefficiencies toward intelligent algorithms that proactively close care gaps. This is a worthy challenge while managing and leading a successful private group practice. He is recognized as a practical and “hands on” leader in the applications of technology and data systems to patient care and medical practice.
Practice Partner is an industry leading, fully integrated EMR and practice management solution. At work in thousands of practices nationwide, Practice Partner helps practices of all sizes and specialties improve their quality of care and their bottom-line productivity. It provides a host of innovative features to improve both office and clinical efficiency, while helping to improve quality of care.
Aprima offers an EHR designed to simplify your workflow, not hinder it. Among the fastest and most flexible EHRs available, it gives users technology that supports and enhances clinical care and allows doctors to focus on their patients.
Adaptive Learning means that as you work your EHR learns your flow, no special programming required.
Intelligent Navigation helps you avoids the popup windows, drop down lists, and cascading menus that prevent eye contact with the patient.
Get Aprima EHR and Practice Management (PM) systems in a single application.
Anytime, Anywhere replication technology lets you work anywhere, anytime, with or without a connection and then the system automatically synchronizes information when connectivity is restored.
Take advantage of tablet hardware and cell phones with the Aprima Mobile smartphone app.
Solution Series is an award-winning, integrated system that increases productivity, offers a superior clinical experience, and drives positive patient care outcomes.
Since 1996, Solution Series has been built based on how physicians work and engage with their patients. Physician satisfaction is always top of mind, and our customers play an important role in product design and strategy.
From patient scheduling to point of care charting, from workflow optimization to document management, from analytics to interoperability, Solution Series is a comprehensive solution covering the entire spectrum of clinical care and practice management.
Plus’s design is both intuitive and feature-rich, with everything you need to schedule, chart, and bill, as well as cutting-edge functions for patient tracking, physician and patient communication, code search and recommendation.
With Plus, you can expect:
Our true cloud-based solution eliminates disruption and helps you focus on what’s most important: your patients.
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