Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Imprivata taps BIDMC doc Kelly as chief medical officer

By Rodney H. Brown

Imprivata Inc. of Lexington has named Dr. Sean P. Kelly as the health care IT company’s new chief medical officer.

According to a release from Imprivata, Kelly is also an emergency physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and he will continue to serve in that role in addition to his new CMO job. He is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and “has published a textbook on emergency medicine,” the release states.

Kelly trained at Harvard College, the release stated, and received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1997. He did his residency at Vanderbilt University and was chief resident from 2000 to 2001.

This summer, Imprivata won a multimillion-dollar contract to provide access security to the national health system of Scotland. Imprivata will provide its OneSign single sign-on and password reset (SSO/PR) technology, intended to make it easier to get into the health system online and make the data more secure. In addition, NHS Scotland will use Imprivata’s No Click Access to the various patient systems run by hospitals and health centers in Scotland.

Privately held Imprivata has raised $50 million since 2002 from investors including locally based Polaris Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and General Catalyst, and Germany-based SAP Ventures. In April of 2010, the company filed for a patent for an identification server for a single sign-on function.