User:Kirk Elder

Kirk Elder is a 15 year veteran of Internet business models and technologies. He has held senior technology leadership positions at various companies at the forefront of revolutionary business models. He is passionate about fixing the healthcare financial crisis. Integrity, intellectual honesty, simplification, and a severe penchant for the truth form his core values.

Kirk Elder is currently the CTO of WellCentive, a brave, exciting, and innovative Big Data Health Analytics vendor that provides a cloud based End-to-End Population Health Management Solution. Wellcentive's population health management solutions enable quality improvement throughout the continuum of care. Wellcentive's Advance™ platform transforms disparate data into actionable insights that facilitate coordinated preventive care and chronic disease management, physician alignment, clinical integration, and success with value-based reimbursement and incentive programs. Wellcentive empowers healthcare organizations to improve both clinical and financial outcomes.

Previously, he held senior management and architecture positions at healthcare abstraction and analytics firms, large industry leading SaaS medical record documentation solutions. Kirk has deep experience in the development of innovative clinical analytics, dictation, speech recognition, natural language processing, BPM, and B2B Solutions. Kirk is an expert in technology life-cycle management, product to market initiatives, and agile and open source engineering techniques. Strangely, he also enjoys extremely complex production support problems and daunting engineering budgeting challenges.

Kirk Elder holds a B.S. in Physics with a certificate in Mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology. During his education he worked in experimental non-linear dynamics, chaos theory, and quantum mechanics.

Specialties: Architecture Leadership Healthcare Solutions Open Source Adoption