New CTO Leads Technology Vision for Healthland

Odell Tuttle brings impressive technology track record to healthcare IT provider
GLENWOOD, Minn.--(Business Wire)--
Healthland, America's market leader of healthcare information solutions for
small community and critical access hospitals, announces the appointment of
Odell Tuttle to the role of chief technology officer. Effective immediately,
Tuttle will lead the technology and system design teams and will work with
Healthland executives to plan and drive the company`s technology roadmap.

"We are very pleased to have Odell Tuttle join the Healthland leadership team,"
said James Burgess, president and CEO of Healthland. "This is a new position for
our organization and demonstrates our commitment to leading-edge technology in
the healthcare IT industry. We are confident Odell will bring the expertise and
leadership necessary to move Healthland to the next level of innovation."

Tuttle previously held the position of chief architect with Gearworks in Eagan,
Minn. At Gearworks, Tuttle focused on building a technology platform for the
company`s mobile healthcare product, OnCare. His experience also includes roles
in enterprise architecture and development with Digital River, Net Perceptions
and Imation in the Twin Cities.

"Healthland is an impressive organization with a solid reputation in the small
community hospital environment," said Odell Tuttle, chief technology officer of
Healthland. "I`m very excited about the change taking place in the healthcare IT
field; Healthland is in a position to deliver technology that can truly help
transform community healthcare and improve quality."

Tuttle is a member of the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP).
The newly formed panel is designed to serve as a cooperative partnership between
the public and private sectors to achieve a widely accepted and useful set of
standards to enable and support interoperability among healthcare software
applications, as they will interact in a local, regional and national health
information network for the United States.

In addition, he is a member of numerous other professional organizations
including:

* Health Informatics Technology (HIT)
* Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
* Healthcare IT/EHR/HIS
* CIO/CTO Leadership Council
* Twin Cities .NET User Group
* International .NET Association (INETA)
* Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Holding a bachelor`s degree from the University of North Dakota, Tuttle also
attended the post graduate software engineering program at the University of St.
Thomas, St. Paul, Minn. Tuttle is a creative, results-driven technology leader
with more than 15 years of experience in software engineering, architecture and
technical management. His expertise is working with large scale networks,
databases, and multi-tenant hosted platforms. Tuttle added, "It is my vision to
show this market that software for electronic health records can be delivered on
a well-architected and highly intuitive platform."

About Healthland:

Founded in 1980, Healthland (formerly Dairyland Healthcare Solutions) is
America's market leader of IT solutions to small community and critical access
hospitals. Committed exclusively to this market, Healthland software and
services empower small community hospitals to deliver the best possible
healthcare by helping create one patient chart across the community, be it a
hospital, clinic, home healthcare or long term care facility. Healthland
solutions are specifically designed for rural hospitals, enabling them to focus
on what they do best - caring for neighbors, family and friends.

Healthland was founded in Glenwood, Minn. and maintains business hubs in
Minneapolis, Minn., Louisville, Ky. and Waco, Texas. To learn more, visit:
http://www.healthland.com.

Healthland
Tracey Schroeder, 612-787-3125
tracey.schroeder@healthland.com

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