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New CTO Leads Technology Vision for Healthland

Odell Tuttle brings impressive technology track record to healthcare IT provider

GLENWOOD, Minn., July 7, 2009 - Healthland, America's market leader of healthcare information solutions for small community and critical access hospitals, announces the appointment of Odell Tuttle to the role of chief technology officer. Effective immediately, Tuttle will lead the technology and system design teams and will work with Healthland executives to plan and drive the company’s technology roadmap.

“We are very pleased to have Odell Tuttle join the Healthland leadership team,” said James Burgess, president and CEO of Healthland. “This is a new position for our organization and demonstrates our commitment to leading-edge technology in the healthcare IT industry. We are confident Odell will bring the expertise and leadership necessary to move Healthland to the next level of innovation.”

Tuttle previously held the position of chief architect with Gearworks in Eagan, Minn. At Gearworks, Tuttle focused on building a technology platform for the company’s mobile healthcare product, OnCare. His experience also includes roles in enterprise architecture and development with Digital River, Net Perceptions and Imation in the Twin Cities.

“Healthland is an impressive organization with a solid reputation in the small community hospital environment,” said Odell Tuttle, chief technology officer of Healthland. “I’m very excited about the change taking place in the healthcare IT field; Healthland is in a position to deliver technology that can truly help transform community healthcare and improve quality.”

Tuttle is a member of the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP). The newly formed panel is designed to serve as a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors to achieve a widely accepted and useful set of standards to enable and support interoperability among healthcare software applications, as they will interact in a local, regional and national health information network for the United States.

In addition, he is a member of numerous other professional organizations including:

• Health Informatics Technology (HIT)
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
• Healthcare IT/EHR/HIS
• CIO/CTO Leadership Council
• Twin Cities .NET User Group
• International .NET Association (INETA)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Holding a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Dakota, Tuttle also attended the post graduate software engineering program at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn. Tuttle is a creative, results-driven technology leader with more than 15 years of experience in software engineering, architecture and technical management. His expertise is working with large scale networks, databases, and multi-tenant hosted platforms. Tuttle added, “It is my vision to show this market that software for electronic health records can be delivered on a well-architected and highly intuitive platform.”