Addition of Physician Executive with Broad Healthcare Industry
Experience Adds to Diversinet's Mobile Healthcare Expertise
TORONTO, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Diversinet Corp.
(TSX Venture: DIV, OTCBB: DVNTF), a leading innovator of secure
mobile healthcare applications, has appointed to its board of
directors Dr. Richard Eidinger, a
physician executive with diverse healthcare industry
experience.
"Dr. Eidinger's extensive healthcare industry experience and
expertise expand our knowledge base and will provide valuable
guidance as we continue to develop our leadership position in the
growing market for mobile-healthcare applications," said
Albert Wahbe, Diversinet chairman
and CEO.
Licensed to practice medicine in Canada and the
United States, Dr. Eidinger brings to Diversinet a
background spanning the healthcare provider and payer market
segments, both of which Diversinet serves with its secure mobile
platform and applications. Eidinger has held executive positions
with Aetna Health Plans and FHP (now United Healthcare) and
currently is a Partner in the Life Sciences Practice of Heidrick
& Struggles in the U.S.A., one
of the world's premier executive-search and leadership-consulting
firms.
Eidinger graduated from the University of
Saskatchewan College of Medicine. He completed training in
Internal Medicine at the University of Western
Ontario. He was a Fellow in Gastroenterology at the UCLA
School of Medicine and is certified by the American Board of
Internal Medicine. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Anderson
Graduate School of Management at UCLA,
where he was awarded a Venture Capital Fellowship.
The Diversinet board appointment follows other moves to advance
the company's strategy of using its patented technology to meet
increasing needs for connected and secure mobile
healthcare-information management. Diversinet recently named
healthcare-IT veteran Mark Trigsted
to the new position of executive vice president of healthcare and
licensed its MobiSecure(R) Health platform to Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners for
innovative mobile applications.
About Diversinet
Diversinet Corp. (TSX Venture: DIV, OTCBB: DVNTF) provides the
healthcare industry with proven, reliable technology for mobile
applications that securely connect people with their healthcare
information, payers and providers - anyway, anytime and anywhere.
Diversinet's MobiSecure(R) platform helps payers and providers meet
rapidly growing needs for safe, convenient, on-the-go storage and
sharing of personal health data. Connect with Diversinet Corp. at
www.diversinet.com. Healthcare. Connected and Protected.
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