Sandata Hires Edward Zecchini as EVP and Chief Technology Officer

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandata, LLC, a leading nationwide provider of information technology solutions to the home healthcare industry, has hired Edward Zecchini as its new EVP and Chief Technology Officer (CTO).  Mr. Zecchini has over 20 years of successful operational leadership and management of IT organizations in the healthcare, information and publishing industries.  Mr. Zecchini had been the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at HealthMarkets, Inc., a $2 billion health and life insurance company, where he was responsible for the IT vision, strategy and resources, including a staff of 350 IT professionals.  Mr. Zecchini also had been the CIO of Thomson Healthcare, a $500 million healthcare information company with direct and indirect responsibility for nearly 300 professionals.  

Mr. Zecchini will be responsible for developing and implementing the strategy for Sandata's information technology and software product offerings, including all development, production and delivery of Sandata's solutions.  Gary Stoller will remain Chief Information Officer, reporting to Mr. Zecchini, and continue to be actively involved with day-to-day technology deployment as well as managing special IT-related projects.

Harold S. Blue, CEO of Sandata, stated that, "Adding Ed to our senior management team culminates the restructuring process that Sandata began a year ago.  He joins at a crucial point for Sandata as we embark on a significant sales and marketing effort to drive adoption of Santrax, launch our new web-based agency management software, integrate Health Systems Solutions (HSS) and experience substantial growth of 30% or more in our revenue and customer base in 2010 and 2011.  Ed's experience with managing IT groups of all sizes and his healthcare knowledge will bring Sandata to the next level in a smart and efficient way."

Mr. Zecchini commented, "I am extremely excited to join the Sandata team.  The company is truly poised to be the preeminent technology leader in the home healthcare sector.  Harold has recruited a fantastic group of senior leaders, whom I look forward to working with to accelerate our product development and help grow our Company."

Among the initiatives that Mr. Zecchini will oversee are the integration of HSS, including merging and finalizing a technology roadmap that combines all of Sandata's Medicaid and Medicare software products and consolidates the development and production environments into a unified platform.

Sandata continues to work through the integration of HSS and expects the process will be completed by the end of June, although a number of areas have already made significant progress and will be integrated much earlier.  Sandata has committed to maintaining a presence in New York City to accommodate the HSS staff members who work there.  Sandata is also in the midst of conducting due diligence on a number of other potential acquisitions, adding profitable business in the New York region, additional GPS-enabled mobile technology for the Medicaid and Private Duty customers and operational management software tools for Medicare-certified home care and hospice agencies.

Mr. Blue commented, "Sandata has an aggressive and ambitious growth plan over the next 24-36 months.  We now have the management team in place to fully execute on our strategy.  We are extremely excited to build upon our successful implementations in Tennessee and Florida, where we are adding more than 400 plus new agency customers, the recent acquisition of HSS, which brought another 200 customers, and overall momentum driven by healthcare reform, increased utilization of home healthcare and greater focus on fraud and abuse.  I strongly believe that Sandata will be the undisputed leader in home healthcare for technology solutions and services."

About Sandata, LLC

Sandata provides a complete package of information technology solutions, which includes scheduling, time and attendance, billing, payroll, compliance and clinical applications, for the home healthcare industry.  Sandata's suite of products includes Santrax, the market leading time and attendance product, web-based software solutions, voice biometrics to perform speaker verification, and a jurisdictional view dashboard solution for states, municipalities and the home healthcare agency market.

Sandata's solutions enable home healthcare agencies, whether Medicare, Medicaid or Private Duty, government or managed care payors as well as any organization with a remote workforce to realize administrative cost savings, streamlined operational procedures, and significantly reduced paperwork burdens.  Sandata has over 1,500 customers in 47 states using its products in more than 300,000 homes on a daily basis, and processes over 100 million telephone calls annually.  Four data centers are strategically located across the country with state-of-the-art redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities.  For additional information about Sandata, please visit: www.sandata.com.

SOURCE Sandata, LLC