Sensitron, Inc., a wireless healthcare innovations company, announced that Lee Domanico, CEO of El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., has joined its Advisory Board. Lee Domanico brings healthcare and technology experience to Sensitron.
(PRWEB) November 8, 2004 -- Sensitron, Inc., a wireless healthcare innovations company, announced that Lee Domanico, CEO of El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., has joined its Advisory Board.
Lee will be a great addition to Sensitrons Advisory Board. With his extensive experience in implementing technology in healthcare environments, he can help guide us in our mission to improve healthcare through the use of wireless technology solutions," said Rajiv Jaluria, president and CEO of Sensitron. The other Advisory Board members and I welcome Lee and look forward to working closely with him."
Domanico has spent the last four of his 25 years in healthcare at El Camino Hospital (ECH), a 411-bed non-profit facility. Prior to ECH, Domanico was senior vice president of Tenet HealthSystem Corp.s Pennsylvania Region. He also held executive positions for a number of other hospitals and health systems, including Alexian Brothers hospitals in San Jose and Chicago, Delta Memorial Hospital in Antioch, CA, USC University Hospital, and Tenets 11 hospital system in Los Angeles and the four-hospital Columbus-Cabrini Health System in Chicago.
Domanico is the founder of three healthcare companies in ambulatory services and residential care. He is a frequent speaker and author on strategic planning and public health policy.
He has received a number of commendations for his work, including 1999 Philadelphia Business Leader of the Year and a CEO Circle of Excellence Award from Tenet. He has been a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives since 1985. He also served on the Illinois governors Task Force on Health Care Reform.
Domanico earned an M.S. in industrial engineering from Stanford University and graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in industrial engineering in 1974.
While at ECH, Domanico has orchestrated plans for an innovative and technology-rich hospital with programs designed to personalize the patient experience. ECH is also one of several hospitals that have deployed Sensitrons careTrends Wireless Bridge system to improve patient safety while saving money and making ECH more efficient.
The careTrends system will enable medical staff to provide improved patient care efficiently through fast access to accurate data. The unique system automatically captures and wirelessly transmits patient vital signs and other clinical data into the health facilitys clinical information systems.
In addition to Domanico, the other members of Sensitrons Advisory Board are:
•Dr. George Block, MD, Chief of Inpatient Services, Providence St Peter Hospital
•Jon Danski, Former CFO Interactive Video Technologies and EVP Cendant Corp
•Dr. Paul Heidenreich, MD, MS, FACC, Director Echocardiography VA, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
•Dr. Guy Miller, MD, PhD, CEO, Chairman, Galileo Labs
•Dr. Umesh Sab, MD, Allergy and Internal Medicine, Former Professor, UCSF
•Dr. Jay Sanders, MD, FACP, President, The Global Telemedicine Group, Professor of Medicine Adjunct, Johns Hopkins University
•Dr. Gary Toig, Obstetrician, Gynecologist, Faculty Associate, Stanford Medical Center
About El Camino Hospital (http://www.elcaminohospital.com)
El Camino Hospital, a 411-bed not-for-profit hospital in Mountain View, California, is located on a 41-acre campus in the heart of Silicon Valley. Consistently ranked as a leading hospital in the area, El Camino Hospital is also nationally recognized as one of the country's 100 Most Wired Hospitals and as one of four top performing hospitals in the country in a Commonwealth Fund report on hospital quality. The hospital has received national recognition for several pioneering programs, including cardiac treatments, radiation oncology, and maternity. For more than 42 years, El Camino Hospital has been distinguished by its high caliber staff and affiliated physicians, its comprehensive and innovative services, and its long history of responding to the needs of the community it serves.
About Sensitron, Inc. (http://www.sensitron.net)
Sensitron, Inc., based in San Mateo, Calif., is a wireless healthcare innovations company that has developed the careTrends Wireless Bridge system. The system minimizes transcription errors and eliminates lag time between the reading, capture, and documentation of clinical data. This is accomplished by communicating vital signs and other data from wirelessly enabled point-of-care medical devices at the bedside. Sensitron, founded in 1997, is a privately held company, and is backed by and in partnership with NewMarket Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: NMKT).
careTrends is a trademark of Sensitron, Inc.
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