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"Jon's deep knowledge and experience working with one of the country'slargest HMOs is a tremendous asset to Portico Systems as we continue toaggressively grow our company, and enhance our solution offerings to addressemerging market needs," said Ned Moore, CEO of Portico Systems. "With morethan 30 years of experience touching many aspects of the healthcare business,Jon is an outstanding addition to our board."
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In addition to heading up two divisions of PacifiCare Health Systems,Wampler held multiple leadership roles at Humana, MetLife Healthcare Networkand Spectrum Emergency Care -- working side-by-side with both health planadministrators and physicians.
"As new trends like transparency, consumerism and pay-for-performanceemerge and re-shape the healthcare industry, managing provider networkseffectively will continue to grow more complex," said Wampler. "PorticoSystems is the recognized leader in helping health plans adopt and manage newmarket demands with an innovative, end-to-end approach that's already savingsome of the country's largest health plans millions of dollars a year. I'mlooking forward to working with Portico's management team to help shape thecompany's go-forward plan, and capitalize on new market opportunities as theyarise."
Wampler joins Moore and three other existing board members: BillPocklington, EVP and director at Portico; Steven R. Burns, former partner inAccenture's Health Services Practice; and John Loftus, EVP and managingdirector of Safeguard Scientifics' Technology Group.
About Portico(TM) Systems
Portico Systems offers health plans software solutions exclusively focusedon unlocking the value of Provider Network Management. Our hallmark PorticoProvider Platform empowers health plans to infuse agility into their providernetwork management functions while delivering actionable provider information.The platform streamlines provider network processes while accelerating newrevenue streams, enhancing employee effectiveness and optimizing providerrelationships. For more information, please contact Chris Jones [email protected] or 215-358-3723. You may also visit our website athttp://www.porticosys.com.
About Safeguard
Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE: SFE) builds value in high-growth,revenue-stage information technology and life sciences businesses. Safeguardprovides growth capital as well as a range of strategic, operational andmanagement resources to our partner companies. Safeguard participates inexpansion financings, corporate spin-outs, management buyouts,recapitalizations, industry consolidations and early-stage financings.http://www.safeguard.com
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