GNS Healthcare Taps Technology Leader as CTO to Drive Productization of Causal AI Platform

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- GNS Healthcare (GNS), a leading precision medicine company, announced the hiring of veteran software executive Scott McKay as Chief Technology Officer. McKay brings over 25 years of hands-on experience in software development, including his time as Principal Software Engineer at ITA Software, a flight search engine forerunner, later acquired by Google for $700M. He will lead the continuing development and productization of GNS's causal AI platform, REFS, as well as other GNS software solutions.

Prior to joining GNS, McKay helped several companies grow from new ventures to early stage Series A/B organizations. He served as Chief Technology Officer at ZappRx, a digital health company, and Cleartrip, a travel tech company based in India. Early in his career, McKay was a part of Symbolics, the first internet domain, where he helped the company scale in both talent and revenue.

He will leverage his expertise of agile development and architecting and implementing large, complex IT systems to continue to build the next generation of REFS.

"Scott brings a wealth of experience in software development and is particularly talented in creating systems that closely align with customer needs," said Colin Hill, Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of GNS Healthcare. "He will be at the helm of an all-star team that is driving our product development and building the technological infrastructure to better support our clients, both today and in the future."

"The combination of GNS's deep expertise in data science, pioneering machine learning technology and experience across the healthcare ecosystem drew me to the opportunity," said McKay. "I'm excited to work with such a talented team to make the platform more robust, easier to deploy and support clients' needs with additional functionality."

Scott earned his Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

About REFS™
REFS™ (Reverse Engineering & Forward Simulation) is GNS Healthcare's patented causal learning and simulation platform. Unlike traditional artificial intelligence platforms, REFS analyzes data sets beyond correlation, instead inferring causal mechanisms between variables to answer questions such as: How will the patient respond to this treatment? What if we choose one intervention over another? REFS is the only commercially available platform that infers causal mechanisms from patient data at scale from traditional healthcare and emerging data sources to bring the promise of precision medicine within reach.

About GNS Healthcare
GNS Healthcare solves healthcare's matching problem for leading health plans, biopharma companies, and health systems. We transform massive and diverse data streams to precisely match therapeutics, procedures, and care management interventions to individuals, improving health outcomes and saving billions of dollars. Our causal learning and simulation platform, REFS, accelerates the discovery of what works for whom and why.

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