Quality Systems, Inc. (QSII), a provider of healthcare information systems, Monday announced the appointment of Philip Kaplan as Chief Operating Officer, effective September 17. The company also named Craig Barbarosh to fill the seat on the company's nine-person Board of Directors, vacated by Kaplan.
Quality Systems said that Kaplan, in his new role, will oversee all of the company's business operations including those of both its NextGen Healthcare Information Systems subsidiary and QSI Dental Division.
Kaplan brings to the company a 20-year career that spans software and technology services, heading both privately and publicly held companies. Kaplan served as a director on the Quality Systems Board from June 27, 2008 until September 17, 2009, when he resigned to assume his role as Chief Operating Officer.
Most recently, Kaplan served as Chief Executive Officer of Deer Valley Ventures, LLC, a managed hosting and virtualization technology company. From February 2007 to June 2008, he was Chief Strategy Officer of Internap Network Services Corp. (INAP), which acquired VitalStream Holdings, Inc. (VSTH) in February 2007.
Further, the company said that Barbarosh has been a partner of the international law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP since 1999. He has served in several leadership positions while a partner at Pillsbury including serving on the firm's Board of Directors, as the Chair of the firm's Board's Strategy Committee, as a co-leader of the firm's national Insolvency & Restructuring practice section and as the managing partner of the firm's Orange County, California office.
QSII is trading at $61.15, up $1.61, on a volume of 87,145 shares.
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