MCI Onehealth Technologies Inc. (“MCI”) (TSX: DRDR), a
clinician-led healthcare technology company focused on increasing
access to and quality of healthcare, is pleased to announce the
appointment of
Jennifer Foster as Chief Operating
Officer.
“We’re thrilled to have Jennifer expand her
successful leadership role with MCI,” said Dr. Alexander
Dobranowski, CEO of MCI. “As Chief Operating Officer,
Jennifer will continue to ensure a world-class operations
infrastructure that can maximize growth in all aspects of our
integrated high-performance healthcare network. As COO, Jennifer
will drive business strategy implementation and oversee all
day-to-day operations. She is uniquely qualified to ensure clinical
quality, client service excellence and profitable revenue growth in
our personalized medicine and data-driven future.”
While providing access to high-quality,
accountable care to more than one million patients each year, MCI
continues to identify, prioritize, develop, and launch new
products, services and business models that create positive health
impact and investor value. MCI’s integrated systems and data-driven
approach unlock meaningful insights and provide real world evidence
to accelerate patient recruitment for clinical trials, accelerate
patient access to treatment and support regulatory
decision-making.
“MCI Onehealth’s mission is to provide better
patient outcomes through applied innovation, including through
earlier diagnosis and opportunities for patients to more quickly
benefit from clinical discoveries,” said Dobranowski. “Jennifer has
successfully modernized the technical infrastructure of our
clinical operations – the foundation of our business – and now will
support the scaling of our tech offering beyond the MCI
network.”
A seasoned and highly-regarded operations
executive with deep healthcare and technology sector experience,
Foster joined MCI in February of 2021 as Executive Vice-President
of Operations for MCI Medical Clinics, making crucial strategic
contributions supporting MCI’s expansion, revenue growth and
recovery through challenging pandemic conditions. Foster’s
portfolio at MCI has included operational due diligence and
subsequent integration for multiple accretive acquisitions,
investments and commercial partnerships. She has also focused on
building a strong management team and shared services function that
provides cohesive and modernized operations across all departments
and business units, including those newly acquired. 2021
represented a record year in terms of revenue for multiple MCI
Onehealth business units.
“I’m honoured and thrilled to be taking on this
role within MCI Onehealth at such a pivotal and exciting time for
the organization,” said Jennifer Foster,
COO of MCI Onehealth. “As we scale beyond the MCI network,
particularly on our technology strategy, I remain committed to the
strategic development and advancement of operations to optimize
patient care pathways, increase revenue and create value for
investors. I look forward to continue working closely with the
Executive Team and Board to position MCI’s innovative offerings on
a national and future international level.”
Foster has an MBA from Ivey Business School at
University of Western Ontario and more than two decades of national
leadership success in both private and public sectors. She has been
accountable for hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and
orchestrated industry-wide integrations. Most recently before
joining MCI, Foster served as Chief Operating Officer for a
national healthcare organization with accountability for
organizational strategy and effectiveness. Prior to that, as
Vice-President of Operations and Chief Information Officer with
Johnson & Johnson Medical Products, Foster spearheaded the
company’s first shared services supply chain and IT infrastructure
in Canada. Before transitioning back into the private sector, she
held Executive Director roles with the Ontario Ministry of Health
centered on safety, quality, ethics, research, integrated risk
management and patient experience. Foster has also led continuous
quality improvement initiatives across various hospitals and within
the community care sector.
“Jennifer Foster is exactly the talented,
experienced and driven COO MCI Onehealth needs to ignite the
company’s growth. Through her pragmatic leadership, MCI will be
pushing our integrated model of technology-enabled care and
nurturing international opportunities to leverage our vast pool of
high-quality structured clinical information,” said Bashar
Al-Rehany, MCI Board Director and former CEO of Euromoney
Institutional Investor’s Investment Research Division, serving as
CEO BCA Research as well as Executive Chairman of Ned Davis
Group.
Along with supporting the mandate for growth of
MCI’s tech and data offerings, Foster will be assuming
responsibility of all business operations of MCI Onehealth and its
subsidiaries from current President and COO Madeline Walker. Walker
will continue with MCI as President – Corporate Health Solutions,
with responsibility for MCI Onehealth’s Corporate Health Solutions
business unit, one of the company’s fastest growing revenue
streams.
About MCI:
MCI is a healthcare technology company focused
on empowering patients and doctors with advanced technologies to
increase access, improve quality, and reduce healthcare costs. As
part of the healthcare community for over 30 years, MCI operates
one of Canada’s leading primary care networks with 25 clinics,
serves over one million patients annually and had 300,000
telehealth visits last year. MCI additionally offers an expanding
suite of occupational health service offerings that support a
growing list of nearly 500 corporate customers. Led by a proven
management team of doctors and experienced executives, MCI remains
focused on executing a strategy centered around acquiring
technology and health services that complement the company’s
current roadmap. For more information, visit mcionehealth.com.
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regarding future events, including statements relating to: the role
and mandate of MCI’s new Chief Operating Officer, MCI’s ongoing
efforts to identify, prioritize, develop, and launch new products,
services and business models, and efforts or plans to expand MCI’s
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risks and uncertainties include difficulties or delays in
developing and implementing new technologies and services or
adapting existing technologies and services to new platforms and
markets; technologies and services not functioning as expected;
third parties not using technologies and services as expected;
economic conditions making technologies and services less
attractive than anticipated; competitors in the industry and in
markets targeted for expansion; different economic conditions,
legal and regulatory frameworks and risks in markets targeted for
expansion; changes in MCI’s strategic plan; the availability of
financing to support expansion to new markets; management of
growth; and other factors discussed under “Risk Factors” in MCI’s
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