Healthcare platform provider Health Cloud Initiative (HCI) has hired Marc Prette as its new CEO. After a period of successful growth of HCI, Prette will take over the CEO tasks from founder and initiator Eric de Boer. De Boer will remain involved with HCI as a board member, shareholder and as a director in the field of business development and M&A.
HCI is a fast-growing provider of healthcare platforms in a wide range of healthcare disciplines. With its software solutions, HCI aims to provide maximum relief to healthcare providers and optimally facilitate patient contact. This is done by applying 'best practices' across healthcare fields and integrating eHealth and patient portal solutions. HCI has now acquired labels such as Incura, FysioRoadmap, Evry, FootFit, CRS GGZ software and paraNICE leading positions in independent mental health care, rehabilitation care and in various paramedical fields, such as speech therapy, occupational therapy, dietetics and physiotherapy. At the moment, more than 21.000 healthcare providers work with HCI products on a daily basis.
Prette has extensive experience as a director of fast-growing, healthcare-related companies. He started his career as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. He has held management positions since 2009. He knows the healthcare sector through Bergman Clinics (specialist care) where he was division director. He also has experience with rapid scaling up through connecting acquisitions through his involvement with AudioNova (audiological care) and AniCura (veterinary care – part of Mars). At AudioNova, Prette also gained a lot of experience abroad, including in Denmark (5 years) and the United States (3 years). Before joining HCI, Prette worked at a scale-up that offers eHealth and patient portal solutions in primary care.
"Marc will play a crucial role in further professionalizing and scaling up HCI. With Marc's arrival, I can focus even more on further expanding HCI's ambitions, both through further growth of the number of customers and by expanding the portfolio," says De Boer.
“The fact that so much is happening in the field of innovation is one of the interesting aspects of working in healthcare. These necessary innovations make healthcare more accessible, more efficient, but also better. At the same time, you see that many innovations in healthcare are often small-scale and therefore do not always work out well. HCI offers a platform that can implement new innovations on a scale across healthcare markets. A rock-solid proposition. I am grateful to Eric that I can use my experience to contribute to the further growth and professionalization of HCI,” says Prette.
