SAN DIEGO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/24/09 -- Awarepoint Corporation (www.awarepoint.com),
a provider of real-time location system (www.awarepoint.com/rtls.shtml)
(RTLS) solutions, today announced that Dr. Dennis O'Leary has joined the
company as chief strategy officer. In this role, O'Leary will assist Jason
Howe, chief executive officer, with creating, communicating, executing, and
sustaining strategic initiatives within Awarepoint. Prior to joining
Awarepoint, O'Leary served a 21-year tenure as President of The Joint
Commission. During that time, O'Leary led the successful transformation of
its accreditation process to focus on actual organization performance in
the provision of patient care. He is now President Emeritus of The Joint
Commission.
Prior to his time at The Joint Commission, O'Leary served as Dean for
Clinical Affairs at the George Washington University Medical Center in
Washington, D.C. and Vice President of the George Washington University
Health Plan. At George Washington, he achieved the faculty rank of
Professor of Medicine and served as Medical Director of the University
Hospital. O'Leary has been active in a variety of professional activities.
He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of
Sciences and served as a member of the board of directors of the National
Quality Forum and as a member of the National Advisory Council of the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In 2000, he was identified by
Modern Healthcare as "one of the 25 most influential leaders in health
care." O'Leary earned his medical degree from Cornell University Medical
College, New York, NY, and his bachelor's degree from Harvard College,
Cambridge, MA.
Awarepoint is growing its health care vision to a new generation of
connected health solutions and is actively building an ecosystem of
partners that will enable it to expand its location-aware technologies
(www.awarepoint.com/technology.html) for use in a wider range of
applications and service offerings.
"My priority at Awarepoint is to help identify next generation
opportunities that address every aspect of the 'health care value equation'
-- quality of care, cost reduction, revenue enhancement and risk
reduction," said O'Leary. "It is my intent to explore applications of
Awarepoint's sophisticated enterprise-wide RTLS technology that goes beyond
its current capabilities and effectively helps to fix broken health care
processes."
"Dr. O'Leary is much admired and one of the most influential thought
leaders in health care. His extensive background in developing health care
quality and patient safety improvement strategies, and his view of RTLS,
and specifically Awarepoint as one of those priority strategies open great
opportunities for Awarepoint to positively impact the value of health care.
In addition, his broad organization management experience lends added depth
to our leadership team. I am so honored to be working alongside one of
today's heroes in healthcare," said Awarepoint's chief executive officer
Jason Howe.
About Awarepoint
Awarepoint's real time location systems (RTLSs) include its real time
awareness platform (www.awarepoint.com/NetworkInfrastructure.html),
firmware, RFID tags (www.awarepoint.com/Tags.html), sensors, and bridges.
Awarepoint's technologies collect raw sensor data and transform that data
into high-value positioning information that can be used to add location
awareness to a variety of healthcare, manufacturing, security and other
applications. Requiring no hard wiring, Awarepoint's "plug and track"
network is a fully managed service, including hardware, software, remote
monitoring and maintenance. The company is headquartered in San Diego,
California and serves hospitals across the United States through a national
sales and operations workforce. Track us down at www.awarepoint.com.
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