Your Healthcare Interoperability Leadership Team
At Zen Healthcare IT, we partner with you on your Healthcare IT journey. Our goal is to work hard, exceed your expectations, and have fun doing it.
Jim Benson
CEO
Jim has a passion for helping people solve challenging problems in healthcare technology, and a talent for building mission oriented teams with hard to find subject matter expertise. Jim’s achievement portfolio is nothing short of impressive with 30+ years of entrepreneurship, financial, and executive experience. Jim’s leadership ensures the Zen Team is laser focused on positive outcomes; both for clients and employees.
Marilee Benson
President
Bringing boundless of positive energy to everything she takes on, Marilee is passionate about leveraging technology to improve the lives of and health outcomes for patients. Marilee has 30+ years of experience in the healthcare information technology sector. She plays an active leadership role in the healthcare interoperability community, currently serving on the Carequality Advisory Board and the HIMSS Interoperability and HIE Committee. This industry expertise is invaluable for Zen clients seeking to keep up with a complex set of interoperability requirements.
Ron Wilson
Vice President of Engineering
With over 25 years of experience in IT, Ron has extensive experience in leading development in healthcare IT. Prior to joining Zen, Ron led development at a Behavioral Health EHR company. There he was responsible for development efforts related to meaningful use, lab integrations, and supporting claims and other payer-specific data standards. Ron shares his extensive integration and IT systems knowledge with Zen team members and clients on a daily basis, accelerating their success in solving complex healthcare data interoperability problems.
Derek Wayland, CISSP
Vice President of IT & Security
CISSP certified, Derek brings a security first approach to his role as Director of IT and Security for Zen. He brings more than 15 years of IT & Security expertise, focusing on healthcare interoperability. Derek plays a key role in building and designing Zen’s modern scalable hosted solutions while achieving and maintaining Zen’s HITRUST CSF r2 certification for the Gemini Platform.
Mike Brady
Director of Client Experience (CX)
With over 15 years of PMO / Project Manager experience, most recently in the area of data privacy, Mike is passionate about developing dynamic teams that operate with a client centric focus. Possessing a natural to foster continuous improvement, Mike brings highly disciplined and focused attention to the client experience, leading the Technical Project Management team here at Zen, and ensuring client projects achieve a successful outcome.
Brian Kirsanov
Manager, Client Solutions
Brian brings 10+ years of experience working with a broad spectrum of healthcare stakeholders seeking to solve healthcare data exchange challenges. As Solutions Manager, he seeks to assess and define best practice based solutions for healthcare interoperability. His special power is in understanding how to successfully apply those solutions to real world interoperability problems for Zen clients.
Michael Bedell
Operations Manager
With degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder in operations and information management, Michael has shared joint responsibility with the CEO for the company’s financial and operational performance. As one of Zen’s first employees, he is passionate about creating a culture that upholds Zen’s key principles, and active in developing the guidelines and policies that will continue to enable Zen’s success as a market-leading interoperability platform.
Ralph Bushong
Sales Consultant
With a history of selling complex healthcare solutions such as medical devices, Ralph has a natural gift for uncovering client business requirements and acting as a trusted advisor. At Zen, Ralph has had the opportunity to dive deeply into a wide range of interoperability use cases, which is invaluable for those prospects exploring Zen as a potential interoperability partner.
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