About Us
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
NinePatch’s commitment to racial equity is not only inherent in the NinePatch Platform’s attention to enhancing access for disadvantaged platform clients, but also evident in our corporate staff make-up. Fifty-five percent (55%) of our staff is comprised of ethnically diverse professionals as we strive to employ the best suited professionals to join our team, irrespective of race, gender or sexual identity.
At NinePatch, we view each community as having unique goals, priorities and needs as defined by their unique blend of partners, customers, clients and existing vendor relationships. That requires us to implement our solutions with a focus on enabling the community to succeed through the lens of both needs, and success is defined within each, rather than in a “one size fits all” methodology. We select our own partners and vendor relationships with that perspective in mind, which gives us the ability to be effective in ever-varying situations and communities.
We have a ‘preferred language’ framework to govern client communications (consent forms and requests, care team invites, etc.). Currently, Spanish has been implemented but any other language could be plugged in. We work with each community to decide what languages their populations need and use a combination of translation software and human-editing to ensure proper messaging and an appropriate literacy level.
Our Commitment To Equity And Diversity
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NinePatch’s commitment to racial equity is not only inherent in the NinePatch Platform’s attention to enhancing access for disadvantaged platform clients, but also evident in our corporate staff make-up. Fifty-five percent (55%) of our staff is comprised of ethnically diverse professionals as we strive to employ the best suited professionals to join our team, irrespective of race, gender or sexual identity.
At NinePatch, we view each community as having unique goals, priorities and needs as defined by their unique blend of partners, customers, clients and existing vendor relationships. That requires us to implement our solutions with a focus on enabling the community to succeed through the lens of both needs, and success is defined within each, rather than in a “one size fits all” methodology. We select our own partners and vendor relationships with that perspective in mind, which gives us the ability to be effective in ever-varying situations and communities.
We have a ‘preferred language’ framework to govern client communications (consent forms and requests, care team invites, etc.). Currently, Spanish has been implemented but any other language could be plugged in. We work with each community to decide what languages their populations need and use a combination of translation software and human-editing to ensure proper messaging and an appropriate literacy level.
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Woman-led company
LEIGH STERLING
President & CEO
Leigh Sterling joined NinePatch by QS Systems as President and CEO in August of 2021. Mrs. Sterling is a seasoned leader experienced at creating and leading successful start-ups and developing high-performing teams. She brings more than 30 years of successful C-level leadership in information technology, information security frameworks, risk management, regulatory audit and compliance, financial management, strategic planning, and human resources development within the Healthcare, Banking & Finance, and Higher Education industries.
Prior to assuming her leadership role at QS Systems, Inc., Mrs. Sterling served as the CEO and Executive Director for the East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN), a Tennessee Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO), for 12 years, providing strategic direction and daily leadership since the startup stage of the RHIO, whose mission is to improve care coordination, patient safety, and patient outcomes through Health Information Exchange.
Mrs. Sterling holds a Master’s degree in Organizational and Interpersonal Communications from the University of Tennessee, and a Bachelor’s degree in Organizational and Interpersonal Communications in Business from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She is also a Certified Health Coach.
Other Team Leaders
SCOT BRAUN
Chief Financial Officer
KENDALL STANLEY
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
JAMES CALANNI
Director of Compliance, Security, and Solutions Delivery
JEFFREY GREENE
Director of Product Design
SCOT BRAUN
Chief Financial Officer
Scot Braun has a successful career that spans more than 30 years in entrepreneurship, corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, recapitalizations, capital raises and restructurings, risk management, operational streamlining, strategic planning, regulatory and corporate governance, and management consulting.
Scot has held corporate leadership positions, including CFO, Treasurer, and Chief Investment Officer, with public and private companies, and has worked for several prominent public companies including US Bank, BB&T, and Barnett Bank. He has also created/launched several successful capital funds in the marina/resort and leisure/hospitality sectors.
He holds an executive MBA from Duke University and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Marshall University. He is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant.
KENDALL STANLEY
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Kendall Stanley joined NinePatch by QS Systems, Inc. as Vice President Sales and Marketing in October 2021. He is a veteran healthcare information technology professional with over 30 years of industry experience. From his early days working in the medical records arena and then marketing, he shifted to more technical integration and executive relationship management roles. For the past decade, he has been focused on business development and has received numerous accolades for meeting strategic corporate targets.
Prior to joining NinePatch, Kendall held progressively more senior business development roles at several healthcare technology interoperability firms, including Collective Medical, Medicity, Orion Health and Axolotl. He served as a charter member of the IHE technical committee, has earned several industry certifications, and authored an article titled Biometric Devices and Record Security that was published by AHIMA In Confidence.
Kendall holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from Marist College in New York and dual associate degrees from the State University of New York at Morrisville.
JAMES CALANNI
Director of Compliance, Security, and Solutions Delivery
James (Jim) Calanni has a successful career that spans more than 25 years in developing and directing enterprise-wide implementations of health and social care information initiatives, including leading several successful multi-million client Medicaid and Medicare populations.
Jim has held corporate leadership positions, including CIO/CTO, Legal/Compliance Program Director with public and private entities. This experience includes gathering, analyzing and defining business and functional requirements as well as managing full life cycle of service delivery models, designing/re-engineering processes, proposing and delivering technology solutions for healthcare systems and community networks.
Jim Calanni holds a JD from Western State University College of Law, an MBA from Aspen University and BS from the University of New Mexico.
JEFFREY GREENE
Director of Product Design
Jeffrey Greene has promoted design thinking and created highly-usable, user-centered designs for cloud-based business and healthcare applications for more than 15 years. His specialty has been designing and deploying SaaS solutions that improve access to quality healthcare: a Patient Safety application used in over a thousand hospitals that used a patented natural-language approach to better categorize and document ‘never events’; the award-winning telemedicine application Equinox, which uses technology to improve access to healthcare in rural and otherwise inaccessible parts of the Middle East and Africa; and his recent work in Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), leading the design and development of NinePatch, winner of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ‘Innovation in SDoH’ Silver Medal in 2019.
Jeffrey Greene earned his Master’s degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.