Patricia Pounds and Neal Smith Will Serve as Regional Vice Presidents of Sales
Fitchburg, Wis. (October 17, 2011) – Emdat Inc., a leading provider of web-based medical documentation software, today announced the hiring of Patricia Pounds and Neal Smith as Regional Vice Presidents of Sales. The addition of Pounds to the Midwest region and Smith to the Southwest region reinforces Emdat’s expanding client base and medical industry expertise.
“Patricia and Neal further advance Emdat’s ability to serve a wider range of clients, while maintaining a focus on helping medical professionals and their service providers achieve increased productivity through medical documentation and dictation solutions,” said Emdat CEO Randy Olver. “They bring a wealth of experience in our field and we are confident they will help Emdat continue to better serve the changing needs of providers and documentation specialists.”
Based out of Chicago, Pounds is responsible for the Midwest region. She will look to develop new business sales to the health system marketplace and will utilize 20 years of experience working in healthcare systems sales. Before joining Emdat, Pounds worked for several companies including IDX, Teletracking Technologies and most recently CodeRyte. As a sales executive at CodeRyte, Pounds consistently ranked as a top salesman and secured the largest contract in company history with Aurora Health Systems.
“Working in the healthcare systems field, Emdat has always been a company I’ve admired,” said Pounds. “I look forward to working with a company that is dedicated to innovation and advancing the evolving medical documentation industry.”
Smith, based out of Dallas, has been working in the healthcare field for over 25 years. Prior to joining Emdat, he was Director of Enterprise Revenue Management Solutions for McKesson Provider Technologies and was responsible for document management, revenue cycle and patient access solutions. Smith is actively involved in Medical Group Management Association, Healthcare Financial Management Association, American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management, National Association of Healthcare Access Management, as well as other clinic and hospital associations. He has published several articles and made presentations nationwide for numerous organizations and groups.
“Emdat provides an opportunity to work on the forefront of healthcare technology innovation,” said Smith. “It enables better patient care while saving medical professionals time and money; I look forward to helping lead their continued progress.”
The hiring of Pounds and Smith reflects Emdat’s continued growth, in which the company’s staff has more than tripled in the past five years.
ABOUT EMDAT
Emdat, Inc. (www.emdat.com), based in Fitchburg, Wis., provides medical facilities and transcription service providers with flexible, seamless and cost-efficient solutions for fully managing medical transcription. Emdat provides one of the world’s leading web-based transcription solutions, serving more than 2,600 medical facilities throughout the United States and a network of hundreds of medical transcription companies around the globe. The company’s Discrete accurate Reportable Transcription (DaRT) solution helps ensure successful adoption of electronic medical records by electronically tagging data within a medical transcription and uploading into the appropriate EMR field.
