News | May 5, 2010

VisionShare Announces New Chief Executive Officer

VisionShare, Inc., one of the nation's largest and most secure health information networks, today announced that Mark R. Briggs has joined the Company as Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to VisionShare, Mr. Briggs served as Chief Operating Officer of Carefx Corporation, a leading provider of interoperable clinical workflow solutions. Before Carefx, he held executive leadership positions in NaviNet, was the President of MPI Solutions at QuadraMed Corporation, and the Chairman and CEO of LinkSoft Technologies. Briggs brings 17 years of healthcare and healthcare IT management experience, with a stellar track record in aggressive top and bottom line growth, creating exceptional shareholder value, and building market-leading companies.

"I have been looking for a partner to help continue the growth of VisionShare. After meeting and having developed a shared vision for the company, I was thrilled to bring Mark Briggs into our organization", said John Feikema, the company's President. "Together we will take VisionShare to new levels of growth and service to our customers."

"I couldn't be more excited about the opportunity to work with John Feikema, who has been an outstanding president for VisionShare", commented Briggs. "I'm looking forward to working with John in charting a course that brings increasingly strategic capabilities to the healthcare network he and his team have built over the last ten years. Over half of our country's hospitals and thousands of physicians, skilled nursing facilities, and other providers turn to VisionShare every day for critical administrative workflow needs with Medicare and other payers. Now these providers – and others – will be enjoying clinical workflow capabilities on our secure, extensive network that will enable meaningful use of existing investments in healthcare infrastructure."

About VisionShare
VisionShare Inc., is the nation's eHealth connectivity leader dedicated to creating, building and managing solutions for secure healthcare information exchange. VisionShare Secure Exchange Platform is utilized by a majority of the nation's leading healthcare providers to enable administrative and clinical transactions that support meaningful use and serves as an access gateway to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and to state and community based Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). For more information visit www.visionshareinc.com.

SOURCE: VisionShare