Becker's Hospital Review reported the following health IT executive moves affecting hospitals, companies and federal agencies during the past month:
Editor's note: The executive moves are listed in the order they were reported.
- HealthVerity, a technology company focused on healthcare and consumer data management, appointed Mike Hard chief revenue officer.
- Cliff Illig, co-founder and vice chairman of the board of directors at Cerner, retired from the company.
- Outcome Health, a health technology and advertising company, selected John Vaughan to serve as chief compliance officer, a newly created role.
- Livongo Health, a digital health startup aimed at supporting people with chronic conditions, appointed Bimal Shah, MD, as the company's CMO, and Courtnee Westendorf as its chief marketing office.
- Vic Gundotra stepped down from his post as CEO of AliveCor, a digital health company best known for its electrocardiogram-equipped watch band Kardia.
- Kate Black left her post as 23andMe's chief privacy officer to join international law firm Greenberg Traurig.
- Health IT and services provider Greenway Health named Kali Durgampudi its chief technology and innovation officer.
- Kelly Cronin, director of interoperability for healthcare transformation at HHS' ONC, left the agency after 15 years of service.
- Olah Healthcare Technology, a provider of enterprise decommissioning solutions for healthcare organizations, named Gregory Miller CEO.
- Phoenix-based Banner Health selected Deanna Wise to serve as CIO.
- Innovaccer, a healthcare data platform company, named Paul Grundy, MD, chief transformation officer.
- The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange elected Jay Eisenstock to serve as chair and Nancy Spector as chair-elect of its board of directors.
- Karen DeSalvo, MD, joined early-stage venture capital firm LRVHealth as an executive adviser.
- SSM Health, a nonprofit health system based in St. Louis, named Sony Jacob CIO.
- The House Veterans Affairs Committee selected Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nev., who took office less than a month ago, to oversee the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' $10 billion, 10-year EHR overhaul.
- Christine Curry, MD, PhD, an obstetrician affiliated with Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, is the latest addition to Apple's health team.