Zimmerman Joins Availity to Lead Clinical Information Exchange

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Availity, the industry’s premier health information network, announced today that Jon Zimmerman has joined the company as senior vice president and general manager of clinical solutions. Jon brings with him a distinguished career of health care business leadership, having influenced a number of strategic and meaningful innovations for the industry.

“Having the ability to deliver clinical information to clinicians when and how they work is imperative for the future of health care”

“Having the ability to deliver clinical information to clinicians when and how they work is imperative for the future of health care,” said Availity chief executive officer Julie Klapstein. “Availity is investing to shape this knowledge revolution — and we’re infusing our company with the wisdom and diversity of experience to make it happen as quickly as our customers demand it. The addition of Jon at the helm of our clinical solutions business is simply one indicator of our commitment to reduce health care costs and improve outcomes nationwide, by delivering better information to the point of care.”

Zimmerman began his career with IBM, earning numerous awards for innovation and engineering, and qualifying for the top sales honors at the company. Later, at Siemens SMS, he was instrumental in developing and operating HDX, an early leader in health care electronic data interchange. More recently, Zimmerman held management and business development roles at CareFusion, (a spin-off of Cardinal Health) and in the delivery of ambulatory systems with Allscripts.

Zimmerman’s expertise is sought-after, and he has participated on many boards of directors in the health information network industry including: the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI); North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA); eHealth Initiative; National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT); and GHX.

He will be based in Jacksonville, Florida, at Availity’s national headquarters.

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Availity optimizes information exchange among multiple health care stakeholders through a single, secure network. The Availity Health Information Network encompasses business and clinical services, supporting both real-time and batch electronic data interchange via the Web and business-to-business (B2B) integration. For more information, including an online demonstration, please visit www.availity.com or call 1.800.AVAILITY (282.4548).

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