Health IT Business News Roundup for the Week of August 19, 2011

Personnel

Graham Hughes — a former GE Healthcare executive — has been named chief medical officer for the SAS Center for Health Analytics and Insights, a provider of business intelligence software and services…Christine Bechtel — vice president of the National Partnership for Women and Families and a member of the Health IT Policy Committee — has been named to the editorial advisory board of the Commission for Case Manager Certification‘s new online educational resource…James Mathews — former business development and government initiatives representative at Sage Healthcare — has been named vice president of business development at Kareo, a provider of medical billing software.
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