Mobile-based CPSI Inc. has made Dr. William J. Hayes as its chief medical officer, the company announced this week.
The company provides specialized IT and information-management sytems for community hospitals and other medical facilities. Hayes, a cardiologist who has an M.D. from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University and an M.B.A. from the University of South Alabama, had been serving as CPSI's medical director. Prior to that, he worked as a physician executive with Kansas-based Cerner Corp.
According to a statement released by CPSI, Hayes "will oversee the Physician Adoption team and focus on improving the user experience community providers have with all CPSI solutions."
"Dr. Hayes brings a unique blend of executive experience and first-hand medical knowledge to CPSI that will serve the needs of our clients," Boyd Douglas, president and chief executive officer of CPSI, said in the company statement. "He will serve as a direct link between our client physicians and internal teams as we continue improving our healthcare solutions."
"As a CMO, it's my responsibility to make sure that we as a company continue to understand that we are providing a tool that ultimately improves the outcome for patients," Hayes said in the release. "As a healthcare solutions company, we are providing care to the patients. We do it through physicians, we do it through laboratory, we do it through revenue; whatever it is, it's just another tool of delivery."