[June 19, 2013] Encore Health Resources CEO Sellers Earns 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Tweet Jun 19, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Encore Health Resources, a health-information technology (HIT) services company, announced that its founding CEO, Dana Sellers, has been named the 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Healthcare in the Gulf Coast Area. According to a release, Sellers took the top award in healthcare at a Houston gala after a panel of independent judges evaluated her career accomplishments against those of distinguished industry co-finalists. The Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Program recognizes high-growth leaders who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. It is acknowledged to be one of the most prestigious business award programs in the country, annually celebrating the country's most innovative business leaders. More than four years old, Encore Health Resources noted, it is one of the fastest-growing consulting firms in the HIT Industry. Under Sellers' leadership, Encore's rapid, sustained success has resulted from the entrepreneurial culture that she has created and nurtured since founding Encore in 2009 during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. This culture mixes high core values with superb talent supported by constant innovation. It is a chemistry that has uniquely positioned Encore to aid an industry struggling to find its feet during an unprecedented period of crisis, reform, and transformation. In addition, the Company noted: With Sellers at its helm, Encore revenues have surged during each of its four operating years; in 2012 alone, revenues grew 112 percent. To serve a constantly increasing client base, its ranks swelled by 84 percent. The company's successes have earned Encore the praise of its industry. For three years running, Modern Healthcare has named Encore one of the Top 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. For two years in a row, the Houston Business Journal has named Encore a Fast-Tech 50 finalist, an award recognizing Houston's fastest-growing high-technology businesses. Sellers founded Encore on the inventive entrepreneurial achievements that have distinguished her exceptional career - one marked by her proven ability to anticipate and solve the most pressing industry challenges. Her career has included the co-founding of Trinity Computing Systems, later acquired by DuPont; serving as President and COO of Healthlink, the most successful privately held HIT services firm in the U.S. until its acquisition by IBM; and serving as a partner on IBM's U.S. HealthCare Provider team. Sellers left IBM in 2009 to found Encore with Nelson. Today, her "Encoreans" number approximately 400 employees, all devoted to 100 percent referenceable service to the company's rapidly expanding client base - continuously backed by cutting-edge innovation. Most recently, Sellers and her team of innovators at Encore delivered the company's newest innovations to answer the healthcare industry's growing need to convert data from HIT systems into health intelligence to navigate through and beyond the industry's shift from volume- to value-based reimbursement and care-delivery models. In February, Encore formally introduced its new Value-based Performance Improvement lifecycle of services and solutions. VPI is powered by CoreANALYTICS, integrated analytical tools that transform data generated by EHR, financial, and operational systems into actionable intelligence for proactive management of patient populations, quality, and costs. "Dana's vision for Encore is anchored in a wise, uncanny understanding of the industry, the processes and technologies serving it, and the forces most likely to change it," said Tom Niehaus, President and Chief Operating Officer, Encore Health Resources. "Armed with such insight, Dana has consistently proven her ability to deliver a rolling stream of innovation -- new, unique, highly competitive, and proprietary IT solutions and services that are designed to meet current and future industry challenges, such as the demand for new, value-based healthcare business models." ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]