Healthcare platform provider Health Cloud Initiative (HCI) has hired Marc Prette as its new CEO. After a period of successful growth for HCI, Prette will take over the CEO duties from founder and initiator Eric de Boer. De Boer will remain involved with HCI as a board member, shareholder and as director of business development and M&A.
HCI is a fast-growing provider of healthcare platforms in a wide range of healthcare disciplines. With its software solutions, HCI wants to unburden healthcare providers to the maximum and facilitate patient contact to the maximum. This is done by applying best practices across healthcare fields and integrating eHealth and patient portal solutions.Meanwhile, HCI with labels like Incura, FysioRoadmap, Evry, FootFit, CRS GGZ software and paraNICE has leading positions in the independent GGZ, rehabilitation care and in various paramedical fields, such as speech therapy, occupational therapy, dietetics and physical therapy.Currently, more than 21,000 healthcare providers work with HCI's products on a daily basis.
Prette has broad experience as a director of high-growth, healthcare-related companies. He began his career as a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. He has held executive positions since 2009. He knows the healthcare industry through Bergman Clinics (specialty care) where he was divisional director. He also has experience with rapid scale-up via connecting acquisitions through his involvement with AudioNova (audiological care) and AniCura (veterinary care - part of Mars). At AudioNova, Prette also gained extensive experience abroad, including in Denmark (5 years) and the United States (3 years). Prior to joining HCI, Prette worked at a scale-up offering eHealth and patient portal solutions in family medicine.
"Marc is going to play a crucial role in further professionalizing and scaling HCI. Marc's arrival will allow me to focus even more on building on HCI's ambitions, both by further growing the number of customers and expanding the portfolio," says De Boer.
"The fact that so much is happening in the field of innovation is one of the interesting aspects of working in healthcare. These necessary innovations make healthcare more accessible, more efficient but also better. At the same time, you see that many innovations in healthcare are often small-scale and therefore do not always come off well. HCI offers a platform that can implement new innovations at scale across healthcare markets. A rock-solid proposition. I am grateful to Eric that I can use my experience to contribute to the further growth and professionalization of HCI," Prette said.
