Meet Our Passionate Team of Healthcare and Tech Pros

Don Jarrell has over 35 years of technical and business experience in product management, technology strategy and intellectual property management and licensing. Don is a primary driver of Prista’s vision and mission for the ActionCue Clinical Intelligence application. Prior to joining Prista, Don co-founded Digital Thinking Inc. (DTI), a consulting firm for product management, technology/business strategy and all things intellectual property. He has held executive and management positions such as Software Business Manager for Alcatel USA, Director of High-Level Design and Business Architect at The Equitable, and the Director of Product Line Planning/Product Line Management with Northern Telecom, Inc (later known as Nortel Networks).

A 25+ year veteran of the healthcare industry, Billie Anne has held senior executive positions including Senior Vice President of Clinical Services at Cornerstone Healthcare Group, Regional Director of Operations at Vencor, Inc. (now Kindred) and various nursing management positions.

Billie Anne is the principal subject expert for Prista’s ActionCue CI platform. She also manages a network of healthcare consultants as part of the company’s operations advisory board and marketing channel.

Before joining Prista, Billie Anne co-founded and led the hospital consulting firm DTI Healthcare Professionals. She continues to provide executive-level consulting services for DTI focusing on change and improvement processes relating to healthcare operations, with a strong operational and e-management focus. Billie Anne also specializes in advisory and execution services in hospital operations, clinical services management, quality management, education and strategic IT.

An expert in software development and technology across a variety of industries, Brain Deterling brings 20+ years of experience to his role as Prista’s Chief Technology Officer. He is also the Chief Software Architect for Prista’s ActionCue CI platform.

Before joining Prista, Brian had a key role in various innovative tech projects, including serving as lead architect for blockbuster.com (the software that paved the way for online DVD rentals and later, Netflix). He served as principal designer and architect of the Insight™ application by Blue Sky Technologies and as a Software Consultant for Signals Ready.

Before that, Brian spent nine years at EXE Technologies (now SSA GT) in a variety of roles including Senior Software Architect for the company’s warehouse management and slotting applications.

Kari Dwyer is a Senior Project Manager with 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Her superpower is managing multiple enterprise projects at once while maintaining excellent customer service, quality, and meeting all project deadlines.

Kari is a proven leader in the delivery of high risk, complex enterprise performance management, business intelligence and data warehousing projects across a range of industries including healthcare, supply chain, construction, security, software, financial services and hospitality.

In addition to her project management expertise, Kari has hands-on skills with numerous technologies, enhancing her ability to lead large, complex project teams.

Dr. Paul Barach is an acute care physician, university professor, healthcare innovator, digital health expert, health service improvement expert, and a serial entrepreneur with a passion for creating real-world solutions which improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of the healthcare system for both patients, physicians, and communities.

Dr. Barach has a greater than 25-year history of helping healthcare systems, companies and investors rethink problems and solutions. His special areas of focus include risk management innovation strategies and tactics, digital health technologies, workflow automation, telehealth, electronic medical record optimization, product design, physician leadership, change management, and organizational change.

Dr. Barach is double boarded anesthesiologist and critical care physician-scientist, trained at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Hebrew University, and the University of Chicago. He is an elected member of the lead international honorary society the Association of University Anesthesiologists. Previously, he held the position of Chief Quality Officer and Associate Chief Medical Officer in major academic medical centers. Paul is a former member of ASA and WFSA Patient Safety and Quality committees, and Chair of the patient safety commission for the World Society of Intravenous Anesthesia.

Dr. Barach holds numerous US and international academic part-time positions, and has published more than two hundred papers in journals, and 5 books. He has been regularly funded for his research grants and his work has led to over $120,000,000 in federal competitive grant funding in the US and internationally.