COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Entrust Healthcare is pleased to
announce Christopher Assif has joined the firm as Managing Partner. Mr. Assif
will be responsible for overseeing and expanding the company's work with
ambulatory care clients throughout North America.
Mr. Assif brings twenty-five years of healthcare information technology
experience to his role with Entrust Healthcare. Mr. Assif started his
healthcare career with early industry implementations of enterprise-wide order
entry and electronic medical record systems. Since that time, Mr. Assif has
been involved in software design and implementation activities for
applications offered by companies including Cerner Corporation and McKesson
Corporation.
For the past eight years, Mr. Assif has served in roles including strategic
advisor and Consulting Partner for numerous healthcare organizations and
technology providers including Catholic Health Partners, OhioHealth, Adventist
Health Systems, Convergys Corporation, and Smoothstone IP Communications.
During this period, Mr. Assif has developed strategic IT plans, business plans
and budgets, led systems selection processes and provided executive oversight
for system implementations. Mr. Assif has also provided planning input to
venture capital and private equity firms including First Analysis, MK Capital
and Mesirow Financial.
Mr. Assif has served as a principal and partner with maxIT Healthcare and as a
member of the board of directors for Dynamic Healthcare Technologies and
Emergisoft Corporation. Mr. Assif has been involved in several professional
associations including HL-7, HIMSS, DISA (ANSI X.12) and CHIM. Mr. Assif also
served on the HIMSS Davies Ambulatory Care Committee. Assif joins former
Cerner colleagues including Dr. Thomas C. Tinstman, Eugene Ridge and Kenneth
Olson at Entrust along with Roger Allison and Jim Martini.
On his appointment, Mr. Assif commented, "For healthcare to truly reduce paper
and become efficient, the industry must increase use of advanced electronic
health records in physician offices. Much attention has been placed on these
systems in large health systems but the adoption rate in physician offices is
still small. No other firm is focused on this cause in the way Entrust is.
Our mission is to help practices budget for, select, implement and manage the
best set of applications and technologies for their practice needs. We are
committed to insure these practices get the expected benefits of these systems
and to comply with yet to be determined 'meaningful use' standards for
reimbursement."
Entrust Healthcare is a full service consulting and professional services firm
specifically designed for physician practices, ambulatory care, diagnostic and
surgery centers, urgent care providers and community medical centers. Our
team of technical, financial clinical and process experts guarantee success of
your technology projects. More information is available at
http://www.entrusthc.com.
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SOURCE Entrust Healthcare
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