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Medical Documentation Software, Clinical Documentation Improvement, CDI Clinical Documentation Improvement, CDI Program, Insight

About Us

Leadership

gerry

Gerry Petratos, MD, MS

CEO and Co-Founder

Laureen Segall

Laureen Segall

Director of Product and Compliance

Peris

Peris Brodsky

Chief Technology Officer

Senthil

Senthil Nachimuthu

Head of Analytics

Board of Advisors

Stuart Rabkin

Stuart Rabkin

Senior Advisor

Niobis Queiro

Niobis Queiro

Senior Advisor

Michael Stamatinos

Michael Stamatinos

Senior Advisor

The focus of HITEKS is to empower healthcare professionals and organizations to make decisions to improve the quality of care and ensure justification of inpatient and ambulatory revenues.  HITEKS accomplishes this with wide range of proprietary products integrated into the Healthcare Revenue Cycle & services.

HITEKS is a clinical informatics organization created by physicians and medical informatics professionals in 2011.  HITEKS is dedicated to bringing the most advanced technology and people to assist healthcare professionals at the point of care and provide proactive workflow assistance to Physician Workflow (CDI), CAPD (Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation) and CDS (Clinical Decision Support) experts during the most important portion of the Healthcare Revenue Cycle. 

HITEKS has created a powerful methodology to improve health care provider reputation by focusing on each individual physician’s ability to document appropriate quality (e.g. Elixhauser chronic conditions, HCC) and reimbursement-related (CC/MCC/DRG models) conditions.

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From its inception in 2011, HITEKS was founded to support the global healthcare push for HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health), and has worked tirelessly and invested millions of dollars in R&D to provide healthcare professionals with timely information and relevant analytics to help manage and navigate through abundance of healthcare information, increase ROI, and suggest the best possible evidence-based care and documentation for patients.
HITEKS is a recognized leader in Computer Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) through digital clinical workflow solutions that support improved Physician Workflow with documented financial ROI and clinician satisfaction, since 2011.​
gerry

Gerry Petratos, MD, MS

CEO and Co-Founder

Dr. Gerry Petratos co-founded and leads Hiteks Solutions as CEO and guides its efforts on unstructured data analytics and the re-use of clinical information to support decision support, clinical documentation improvement, clinical research, and reimbursement. Dr. Petratos was previously director of clinical decision support and Global Head of Healthcare Data Analytics at Roche, where he oversaw data-driven applications of clinical information management in protocol design, graphical medical review, analysis, reporting, and publications.

Dr. Petratos also conducted Adverse Drug Event detection research at Intermountain Healthcare and the University of Utah Health Sciences Center as part of a National Institutes of Health fellowship with the National Library of Medicine in Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Petratos earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Cornell, an MD from Howard, and a Master’s in Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics from the University of Utah.

Laureen Segall

Laureen Segall

Director of Product and Compliance

Laureen is a professional with a unique blend of expertise in product management, software development and program management practices. Exceptional ability to lead cross-functional teams in developing high-quality software solutions that solve market problems. Strong collaboration working with senior executives to establish strategic product direction around revenue and market share growth.

She has a highly effective leadership style that develops high-performing teams by capitalizing on people’s strengths. Analytical problem solver that consistently produces results and delivers projects on time and within budget. Extensive experience working with system architects and software engineers designing state-of-the-art software products. Successful track record utilizing performance metrics to drive process improvements.

Peris

Peris Brodsky

Chief Technology Officer

Experienced architect, designer and developer of enterprise software for the healthcare sector. Inventor of many unique solutions for difficult business problems. Generalist with a broad education and experience growing in a software startup business. Researcher and evangelist of the best product development tools and methods. Medical informaticist with a focus on semantic interoperability, clinical decision support and usability.

Senthil

Senthil Nachimuthu

Head of Analytics

Senthil K. Nachimuthu, MD, PhD, FAMIA is a strategic/operational expert with about 20 years of experience with the single mission to improve individual and population health. He is experienced in digital health product management with 12+ years of leadership experience and has a formal background in medical informatics, medicine and clinical research.

He is experienced in clinical decision support (predictive analytics/machine learning), clinical terminologies, standards, healthcare data strategy/governance, clinical workflows, usability, epidemiology, and infectious diseases. Self-taught in computer science, with decent hands-on experience. He enjoys designing and working with technology experts to build flexible and extensible systems to handle the variability and nuances in clinical data. He is also an advocate of patient safety and privacy.

Stuart Rabkin

Stuart Rabkin

Senior Advisor

20+ years of delivering growth and margin improvement to F500 companies.

Stuart is a Strategic Innovation and Business Development leader within the Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Life Sciences sector. His practices range from Growth and Innovation – Concept through Commercialization to Cost and Margin Improvement – Product, Portfolio, Supply Chain/Product Supply and Packaging.

Niobis Queiro

Niobis Queiro

Senior Advisor

Executive Leadership | Healthcare | Revenue Cycle | Management & Consulting | Public Speaker| Leadership Coach

30+ years strategic healthcare revenue cycle management and consulting leader, industry public speaker

  • Patient Financial Service Management
  • Healthcare Solutions Sales
  • Outsourcing and Implementation Services 
  • Create Revenue Generating Opportunities 
  • Clinical and Financial Re-engineering Technology Solutions Experience
  • Patient Access Re-engineering
  • Process and Technology Expertise in Reimbursement Modeling
  • Reimbursement Analysis and Forecasting
  • IPEC Certified Professional Coach
  • Decision Support Services
  • ELI Master Practitioner 
  • ROI and Cost Benefit Analysis
Michael Stamatinos

Michael Stamatinos

Senior Advisor

Michael’s deeply rooted passion for providing “access” within healthcare led him to starting Omorfi, Inc., and Advancing Healthcare Innovation Consortium. He brings a 17 + year track record in healthcare business development, sales and marketing leadership. His areas of expertise include identifying strategic opportunities for revenue acceleration.

Throughout his career, Michael’s deployed his Relationship Equity Principle, a unique commercialization, recruiting and execution strategy, supporting investors and management teams. Michael has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to put together customized growth processes that systematically build authority and trust with numerous digital health startups globally.

As the son of Greek immigrants, Michael credits his parents for instilling him with relentless work ethic, grit, and determination. He’s authored numerous articles, a published author of “Getting to the Decision Maker”, and Co-founded Mastermind Unit, a NY based non-profit that fundraises for local Children’s charities. When he’s not “building bridges” within healthcare, you’ll find him spending quality time with his family, and on a soccer pitch as an avid player and coach.