Addition
of Physician Executive with Broad Healthcare Industry Experience Adds
to
Diversinet’s Mobile Healthcare Expertise
TORONTO,
Sept. 8, 2010 – Diversinet Corp.
(TSX Venture: DIV, OTCBB:
DVNTF), a leading innovator of secure mobile healthcare applications,
has
appointed to its board of directors Dr. Richard Eidinger, a physician
executive
with diverse healthcare industry experience.
“Dr.
Eidinger’s extensive healthcare industry experience and expertise
expand our knowledge base and will provide valuable guidance as we
continue to
develop our leadership position in the growing market for
mobile-healthcare
applications,” said Albert Wahbe, Diversinet chairman and CEO.
Licensed to
practice medicine in Canada and the United States, Dr.
Eidinger brings to Diversinet a background spanning the healthcare
provider and
payer market segments, both of which Diversinet serves with its secure
mobile
platform and applications. Eidinger has held executive positions with
Aetna
Health Plans and FHP (now United Healthcare) and currently is a Partner
in the
Life Sciences Practice of Heidrick & Struggles in the U.S.A., one of
the
world’s premier executive-search and leadership-consulting firms.
Eidinger
graduated from the University of Saskatchewan College of
Medicine. He completed training in Internal Medicine at the University
of
Western Ontario. He was a Fellow in Gastroenterology at the UCLA School
of
Medicine and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He
also
holds an M.B.A. from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA,
where
he was awarded a Venture Capital Fellowship.
The
Diversinet board appointment follows other moves to advance the
company’s strategy of using its patented technology to meet increasing
needs
for connected and secure mobile healthcare-information management.
Diversinet
recently named healthcare-IT veteran Mark Trigsted to the new position
of
executive vice president of healthcare and licensed its MobiSecure®
Health platform to Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners for
innovative
mobile applications.
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About
Diversinet
Diversinet
Corp. (TSX Venture: DIV, OTCBB: DVNTF) provides the
healthcare industry with proven, reliable technology for mobile
applications
that securely connect people with their healthcare information, payers
and
providers – anyway, anytime and anywhere. Diversinet’s MobiSecure® platform
helps
payers and providers meet rapidly growing needs for safe, convenient,
on-the-go storage and sharing of personal health data. Connect with
Diversinet
Corp. at www.diversinet.com.
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