FORT WAYNE, IN--EXTENSION, INC.
today announced it has strengthened its management team with two recent
additions that bring more than 40 years of combined experience to the
company. Closely following news that the company achieved year-over-year
growth for the first quarter of 2013, Brian McAlpine and Johnathan
Salyer add strategic expertise that will help manage the rising demand
for EXTENSION solutions.
"Brian McAlpine and Johnathan Salyer are
trailblazers in the industry," said Todd Plesko, Chief Executive
Officer at EXTENSION, INC. "They are well-respected professionals whose
combined knowledge and experience add tremendous value to our management
team."
Brian McAlpine has spent 22 years in the medical device
and healthcare IT market with a specific focus on the clinical workflow
and integration between devices and enterprise IT systems. While under
his direction as Director of Marketing and Product Management at
Emergin, the company built and validated the market for clinical alarm
management, and during his tenure sales for the company tripled. He also
held senior positions at Siemens Medical, Draeger Medical, and
Hewlett-Packard's Medical Products Group, which later became Philips
Healthcare. Brian's successes paved the way for his most recent role as
Capsule's Director of Strategic Products where he launched their new
point of care platform, which contributed to the company success and
market leadership in medical device connectivity.
As VP of
Product Management and Marketing, Brian will draw on his depth of
experience to bridge together the two key departments responsible for
driving EXTENSION solutions and branding in the marketplace.
"I've
been integrating medical devices with enterprise IT systems for most of
my career, and EXTENSION sets the bar high in terms of results", said
McAlpine. "I joined the company because their offering is uniquely
suited to facilitate the type of care collaboration that is needed in
the market, and which first generation platforms lack."
Johnathan
Salyer has also spent more than 20 years in healthcare IT primarily
focusing on systems integration, medical device interfacing, and
clinical process improvement. As the second Capsule employee in the US,
Johnathan managed its initial period of growth in his role as VP of
Sales and Business Development where he helped drive successful EMR
reseller partnerships. More recently, he made significant contributions
to the period of explosive growth in his role as Regional VP of Sales.
In
his role as Director of Strategic Accounts with EXTENSION, Johnathan
will focus on strengthening partnerships with existing EHR vendors to
elevate EXTENSION's one-of-a-kind, 2nd generation platform to the
preferred choice for managing hospital alarms, critical events, and
clinical communications.
Echoing the sentiments of McAlpine,
Salyer added, "EXTENSION brings together the varied events and
contextual information occurring in a hospital and manages them by
applying rules that filter through the noise to elevate what matters
most to clinicians. Applied intelligence enables caregivers to
collaborate in a conversational way by taking advantage of context and
situational awareness, which significantly improves the quality of
communications.
EXTENSION, INC.
EXTENSION® offers
award-winning solutions that facilitate instant communication between
patients and clinicians. Our solutions enhance common communication
devices (wireless phones, smartphones, and communication badges) used as
clinical workflow tools by aggregating data from various clinical/IT
systems and delivering time-critical alerts to the devices. By
establishing repeatable and reliable processes with EXTENSION's workflow
software, healthcare systems improve patient safety, patient and staff
satisfaction, and efficiency.
