MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 3, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RedBrick Health, a leading provider of technology-enabled enterprise solutions that empower individuals to improve their health behaviors and make smarter healthcare decisions, today announced the addition of two new executives to help lead the company through its next phase of growth. As Vice President, Compliance, Patrick Midden will lead the company's ongoing privacy and security initiatives, and will oversee its compliance programs. Additionally, Dr. Andrew Mellin joins RedBrick Health as Vice President, Medical Director. He will support the company's health system clients as they roll out RedBrick-powered employee and population health initiatives.
"We are thrilled to announce these important additions to RedBrick's management team," said Dan Ryan, Chief Executive Officer of RedBrick. "Pat's extensive experience leading rigorous compliance programs will be an asset to RedBrick's ongoing operations. Andrew's deep experience with population health and patient engagement initiatives, leveraging electronic health record systems and other health system assets, will help advance our health systems partnerships."
Mr. Midden joins RedBrick from Batison Consulting Inc., where he developed privacy, security and compliance programs for clients. Prior to his role as a consultant, Mr. Midden led compliance efforts at Prime Therapeutics LLC, where he served as the privacy officer. In that role, he expanded Prime's existing privacy program to protect prescription records for millions of individuals, and also worked to help develop the company's Medicare and Medicaid compliance program. Mr. Midden received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Notre Dame, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities and a Juris Doctor from William Mitchell College of Law.
Dr. Mellin brings 15 years of health information technology leadership for provider systems, including electronic health records and population health solutions, to RedBrick Health's growing health systems business segment. In his previous work at McKesson Corporation, Dr. Mellin formed an innovation group that developed a real-time quality analytics solution for health systems and created several patents and pending patents for health information technology. He also spent 15 years as a hospitalist at United Hospital in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Mellin received an M.D. from Duke University and a MBA from the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management.
For more information on RedBrick and its leadership team, please visit www.redbrickhealth.com.
About RedBrick Health
RedBrick Health provides technology-enabled enterprise solutions that empower individuals to improve their health behaviors and make smarter healthcare decisions. The company serves leading employers, health plans and healthcare delivery organizations focused on improving population health and reducing healthcare costs. Using its powerful behavior change model and dynamic health engagement platform, RedBrick delivers a personalized and engaging experience through online, mobile and live interactions with consumers.