Steve Epstein
Chief Executive Officer (Co-Founder)
With over 31 years of experience in computers and health care, Mr. Epstein has developed an in-depth understanding of healthcare databases and is recognized as a pioneer and expert in neural networks and abductive/induction systems for health care. He has published over 17 articles and presented his work in numerous healthcare and technical symposiums. In addition, Mr. Epstein's Outcomes Measurement Process was acclaimed, in 1994, as an innovation by the American College of Physician Executives. MEDai won the 1994 Healthcare Innovations in Technology Systems (HITS) Partnership Award for its Myocardial Infarction (MI) Predictor, a program used to determine whether or not a patient is having a heart attack. In 1997, MEDai's High Risk Predictor was a runner up for the HITS award making MEDai the only company to ever be a two-time finalist for the award. In 1997, MEDai and Sentara Healthcare jointly won the ComputerWorld Smithsonian Award for their project entitled, "Clinical Care Improvements Using Artificial Intelligence Disease Analysis." In 2000 and again in 2001, MEDai was named as one of central Florida's fastest growing technology companies by Deloitte and Touche as part of their "Fast 50" program.
Diane Lee
Executive Vice President (Co-Founder)
Along with Mr. Epstein, Ms. Lee is credited with developing and implementing the first for-profit home health agency east of the Mississippi. With 20 years of combined healthcare management and data analysis experience, she is an expert in clinical and financial decision support systems, TQM applications, severity adjustment processes, data scrubbing techniques, and clinical pathway application. In 1988, Ms. Lee co-founded MEDai, Inc., together with Mr. Epstein. Ms. Lee led the development of MEDai's Clinical Decision Support System software, High Risk Predictor software, and severity and risk adjustment statistical applications. These tools were integral in winning the ComputerWorld Smithsonian award for MEDai and Sentara in 1997.
Swati Abbott
President
Ms. Abbott joined MEDai bringing extensive experience in healthcare setting. Identifying, negotiating and securing long-term relationships provided Ms. Abbott with in-depth experience developing strategic relationships and market positioning. During her two years as Managing Director for the Medical Management Strategic Business Unit at ViPS, Ms. Abbott's focus was to provide strategic customer and market driven focus to each of the companies product focus.
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