NavisHealth Appoints Industry Veteran Jon Mello as Chief Operating Officer

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- NavisHealth Solutions, Inc., a Silicon Valley healthcare information technology company, announced today its appointment of Jon Mello as Chief Operating Officer. Mello will be working closely with the leadership team and will be responsible for the execution of the company's growth and strategic plan.

Concurrently, the company announced the completion of a rebranding effort to NavisHealth from Versaworks, which reflects its commitment to facilitating engagement strategies and clear communication between patients and healthcare professionals through mobile health technology. NavisHealth offers a companion Electronic Health Record (EHR) certified for Meaningful Use (MU)–Patient Engagement to hospitals and physician practices and a mobile patient portal app to patients. This patient engagement system easily connects to inpatient and outpatient EHR's giving patients the tools they need to be more involved, engaged and empowered in their own healthcare.

"NavisHealth is embarking on a new phase of focused growth, so we are excited to have a leader of Jon Mello's caliber to join our team as an experienced healthcare IT leader with a deep background in the industry," said NavisHealth CEO Kit Sun.

Prior to NavisHealth, Mello served as Executive Vice President at Beacon Partners, one of the largest healthcare IT management consulting organizations in the US.  Mello also served as the Healthcare Executive representing EMC Solutions at EMC Corporation for 12 years. He bridged the EMC portfolio of healthcare infrastructure solutions created through a coalition with VMware, Cisco, and EMC.  Earlier in his career, Mello held hospital administrative appointments at several Harvard Teaching Hospitals in Boston.  

He served on the Foundation Board and Board of Trustees of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and was the Treasurer and a Board Officer for the New England HIMSS organization.  

"Mobile health applications will have a profound impact driving patient engagement, and meaningful use of data," said Mello. "NavisHealth is committed to providing easy-to-implement cloud solutions for the patients' smart phone.  I'm excited to join the company and look forward to helping to drive our continued growth in this changing industry."

About NavisHealth:

NavisHealth, a pioneer in health information technology, is committed to giving healthcare providers the tools they need to optimize clinical care, engage with patients, and achieve clinical quality measures. NavisHealth delivers a suite of secure, on-demand Healthcare Cloud Solutions which include: Engage, Compliance Manager, and Streamline Analytics. Engage is an ONC certified companion EHR and mobile patient portal application designed to increase patient engagement by hospitals and healthcare providers. Compliance Manager, a Drummond Certified companion EHR, analytics, and reporting solution is specifically designed for Meaningful Use Clinical Quality Measures (CQM) and Core Measure Reporting. Streamline Analytics aggregates financial, operational, and clinical data from disparate databases, transforming the data into actionable dashboards. For more information, visit: http://navishealth.com

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