Although it has focused on other business cloud hosting in the past, the company has branched into healthcare with its cloud managed hosting service.
The newly announced board includes:
∙ Edgar D. Staren, MD, CEO of Ashion Advanced Individual Medicine
∙ David Lorber, MD, former vice president of clinical affairs at Walgreens Co. and former vice president of medical affairs at CVS Caremark
∙ Marc Lieb, MD, JD, chairman of the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ committee on economics
∙ Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD, professor of Biomedical Informatics and Senior Advisor to the Executive Vice Provost at the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University
∙William Yasnoff, MD, PhD, CEO of nonprofit Heath Record Banking Alliance
The board will advise the company on regulatory health IT trends, HIPAA compliance and best practices for patient outcomes, according to a Feb. 4 news release.
Carpathia, based in Dulles, Va., gained notoriety for legal scuffles with the online video hosting website MegaUpload, which stored its data on Carpathia’s servers. After the government shut the website down and seized its assets, Carpathia became embroiled in an ongoing legal battle about preserving the data.
The company keeps data centers in 4 U.S. locations and more than 95 worldwide. Its main areas of business include government data, digital media, healthcare and corporate.
