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HealthGate Executive Team

William Reece, Founder and CEO

William (Bill) Reece founded HealthGate in 1994 with a vision to bring quality healthcare information to healthcare organizations – and ultimately consumers -- through the fledgling Internet medium. During the company’s first years, Bill focused on building one of the industry’s most respected and comprehensive repositories of healthcare content, through licensing agreements and original, peer-reviewed articles. Bill led the company to a successful public offering in 1999. In the following years, HealthGate forged strategic alliances that bolstered the company’s content offerings, but also catapulted the company into new arenas as the content market faced consolidated. Trends that Bill identified to drive HealthGate into its next evolution were related to quality assurance for healthcare institutions and organizations, which encompassed Evidence-Based Medicine and related guideline development/standardization and patient education initiatives. In 2006, HealthGate shifted its focus on a technology the company had been developing called Collaboration Architect. Under Bill’s leadership, HealthGate is currently the only ECM (Enterprise Content Management) vendor singly focused on the healthcare market with its collaboration management technology. Bill recognized early on the complex needs facing the healthcare industry and the overwhelming number of documents that must be created, reviewed or updated each year.

Prior to founding HealthGate, Bill served in several positions, including Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Manager of U.S. Sales and Marketing Representative at PaperChase, a medical literature retrieval software company owned by Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

He and his wife Mary reside in Boston.

Timothy McNamara, MD, Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Timothy (Tim) McNamara serves as Chief Medical Officer of HealthGate Data Corp., where he provides professional expertise to a diverse healthcare marketplace on information technology, and collaboration management. Tim is also an Assistant Adjunct Professor and Medical Director for the Center for Healthcare Informatics at the University of Kansas Medical Center leading a variety of educational and informatics-related initiatives in the School of Medicine.

Prior to joining HealthGate, Tim led corporate initiatives for Cerner Corporation in the areas of: drug information development, clinical decision support, evidence-based medicine deployment and client clinical process improvement activities. He also participated in the development, marketing and sale of data aggregation and statistical/analytic applications for Cerner.

Tim’s extensive career in healthcare technology and informatics also includes:

Co-founding and funding (with Allen and Company of New York) MetaContent, a professional services/consulting organization focused on healthcare information technology and publishing.
Leading product development and research initiatives for ten years at a pharmaceutical information company (Multum, later acquired by Cerner Corporation) that has become a nationally-prominent provider of electronic drug information and clinical decision support tools.
Managing a drug information research department that included a staff of more than 30 full-time physicians, pharmacists, software engineers, quality assurance engineers, pharmacy technicians, librarians, and translators, physicians and pharmacist reviewers/consultants.
Developing successful application service provider (ASP) business models for business-to-business distribution of healthcare information.

With Tim’s professional, clinically-founded guidance and hands-on expertise, HealthGate is uniquely positioned to offer healthcare organizations a custom approach to collaboration on policies and procedures, guidelines, protocols, and all of the documents and workflow materials that require multiple personnel and revisions.

Julie Furrier, Chief Financial Officer

Julie Furrier joined HealthGate in November 2000 and has served as HealthGate’s Chief Accounting Officer since 2001. Prior to joining HealthGate, from 1993 to 2000, Ms. Furrier was employed in several positions for Town & Country Corporation and subsidiaries, including as Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of Town and Country Fine Jewelry Group, Inc. from 1999 to 2000. From 1991 to 1992 Julie was employed by The Boston Company Advisors, Inc. as a financial reporting accountant and from 1989 to 1991 she was employed by Edelstein & Company LLP as an auditor. Julie has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant since 1993.

Stephen Faris, Chief Technology Officer

Stephen Faris joined HealthGate in 2003. As HealthGate’s Chief Technology Officer, he is responsible for technology strategy, product design/development and IT services. Prior to joining HealthGate, Stephen was Director of Technology for EBM Solutions, where he led the design and development of a management and delivery platform for evidence-based guideline for clinicians. He also directed the integration of the EBM platform with a computerized patient order entry (CPOE) system, a patient registry application, a health insurance claims processing system, as well as several patient and provider web portals. Before EBM, he was Director of Product Development for Help4Life, a disease management software company. Here he was charged with developing an online, collaborative application for pediatricians and public school special education departments that focused on the identification and management of behavioral health issues. Stephen also held an engineering position with Motorola Corporation. He earned a B.E. in electrical and computer engineering from Vanderbilt University.