Nashville Technology Council

John R. Morrow

Business Development,  Corporate Development,  Special Projects, Senior Vice President,  Managing Director,  Chief Executive 

Founder: 100 Top Hospitals: Benchmarks for Success®
Creator: NRC Patient Satisfaction Index™
Founder: The Data-Advantage Hospital Value Index™
 

• Twenty-seven years experience in health information systems and content including: database publishing, clinical and financial decision support, outcomes analysis, benchmarking, quantitative best practices and consumer health new media. \
• Ten years merger & acquisition in corporate environment, executing over a dozen deals. Strong strategy, business and corporate development skills.  Successful track record of acquisitions, joint ventures, sponsorships and out-licensing of content. 
• Innovator and motivator of people and programs in support of sales and marketing strategies. Strong with product lifecycle and business growth strategies. Experience with re-structuring and new business integration. 
• Industry leader comfortable on the podium, in the boardroom and with Congressional briefings. 
• Advisor to health information executives 
• Successful track record in public company environment

John Morrow is the principal of The Ratings Guy, LLC, and advises information companies and others interested in using provider performance data to assist with strategic health care decision support.  Current active advisory projects include:

Restructuring of a public health information technology company,
Industry advisor to a publicly traded health information survey and research company,
Advisor to a private consumer health information company
Strategy advisor to a leading health information decision support content provider,
Technical advisor to investors and firms involved in M&A due diligence
Advisor to an application development company deploying Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault PHR engines

Morrow was senior vice president of HealthGrades Inc. He brought to the company experience with proprietary methodology development, database acquisition and development, product distribution, channel development and new business growth.  As a member of the executive management team he guided the strategic growth of the business and its brand. Morrow joined the de-listed company at $.04/share and exited the NASDAQ listed company at $7.00/share within three years.

Prior to joining Health Grades, Morrow was Senior Vice President and Publisher with HCIA (dba Solucient and Thomson-Reuters).  Morrow identified businesses and products for acquisition; led the Syndicated Products business unit and the International business unit; directed the out-licensing of the company’s intellectual property; managed business relationships with major consulting/audit firms; formulated highly visible brands such as 100 Top Hospitals and created or managed co-development and marketing alliances with major corporate business partners such as Ernst & Young, Deloitte, McKesson, Siemens, Cerner and WebMD.  

In 1993 Morrow founded the 100 Top Hospitals: Benchmarks for Success® program which was produced by HCIA and thrives today as a Thomson-Reuters initiative.  As publisher for HCIA, Morrow has published in the areas of inpatient outcomes, performance measurement, longitudinal analysis, ambulatory outcomes, clinical quality measurement and cost management.

Morrow was CEO of CHKS Ltd, the UK’s largest independent outcomes performance consultancy.  Morrow returned to the U.S. to assist with the packaging and sale of HCIA to VS&S for $135 million. Immediately following the sale HCIA merged with Sachs Group to create Solucient.  Prior to joining HCIA, Morrow was general manager for the health care information systems practice of Ferranti International plc that developed hospital and nursing home management information systems in the U.S. and U.K.

Morrow, an Eagle Scout, holds a degree from the Sellinger School of Business, Loyola College in Maryland.  He resides in Belfast, Maine with his wife and triplet children.