Wednesday, January 14, 2009

MedVentive lands John Lightfoot as CTO

By Mass High Tech staff

Cambridge health care IT firm MedVentive Inc. has added John Lightfoot to its executive team, naming him chief technology officer.

Prior to joining MedVentive, Lightfoot served as North American CTO at Orion Health, a company focused on disease management through its physician portal. He has also held previous positions as VP of technology for Healthvision and CIO of MIT Health Plans.

MedVentive, which provides software products intended to improve care for patients, has seen its business expand in recent years from one customer in Boston to more than a dozen medical centers across the nation, company officials said in June. The company raised $3.6 million in a Series B round of venture capital financing in May, intended to expand its sales and marketing staff and new product development.

MedVentive began in 1997 as Care Group Medical Services Organization LLC, a health IT unit of CareGroup Healthcare Systems, the group that manages Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. MedVentive spun out as an independent firm in May 2005, with products several years in the making and one large customer in CareGroup.