Mr. Watson joins Cal INDEX from Oracle Corp., where he served as global vice president of healthcare product strategy. He has also served as CTO and COO of Emeryville, Calif.-based MedeAnalytics and CTO of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente.
Cal INDEX’s HIE will comprehensively present data by integrating clinical data from providers and claims data from payers. The HIE will initially provide clinicians access to approximately 9 million health records — nearly one-fourth of California’s population — making it one of the largest HIEs. The HIE plans to go live by the end of 2014.
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