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11/13/09 - Medfusion Appoints Senior Advisor
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CARY, N.C. - Medfusion, the leading provider of patient-to-provider communication solutions, announced that Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard University, has joined the company as a Senior Advisor. Porter, generally acknowledged as perhaps the world’s leading strategic thinker, has recently emerged as an advocate for health care reform in the United States. Redefining Health Care, which he co-authored with Elizabeth Olmstead Teisberg, establishes an intellectual framework which informs the current debate on improving the health care system.
Relevant Links:
Michael Porter’s Big Ideas (Fast Company, December 2007)
Redefining Healthcare (Porter and Teisberg)
About Medfusion: Medfusion is a Cary, NC-based company that provides patient-to-provider communication solutions that enable healthcare providers to offer superior service to their patients while improving office efficiency and generating revenue. Medfusion’s powerful, web-based solutions virtually transform patient communications with applications for pre-registration, appointment requests and reminders, outbound messaging, lab results delivery, prescription renewals, online bill payment, virtual office visits, and more, including uniquely-branded content-rich web sites. Medfusion is ranked #1 by KLAS in the “2008 Software Category” for secure patient portals. For more information, please visit www.medfusion.net.
About Michael Porter: Michael Porter is an internationally renowned competitive strategist and influential healthcare reform thought leader who has been identified as the world’s most influential thinker on management and competitiveness. He is a Bishop Lawrence University Professor of Harvard Business School, the highest professional recognition that can be awarded to a Harvard faculty member. Porter has served as a strategy advisor to heads of state, CEOs, and international organizations. The holder of 17 honorary doctorates from universities around the world, he has authored 18 books and over 125 articles, and has received six McKinsey Awards for the best Harvard Business Review article of the year, and numerous other scholarly and national honors.
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