InterSystems Appoints Former NHS and Mass General Leader Dr Tim Ferris as Vice President, Healthcare

SECTOR UPDATE - InterSystems 

InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering more than one billion health records globally, today announced the appointment of Tim Ferris, MD, as Vice President, Healthcare Practice.

In this role, Dr Ferris will leverage his comprehensive view of the industry to help drive the clinical and strategic direction of the company’s healthcare solutions worldwide. He will serve as a strategic advisor to global health systems and governments, engineer targeted technology solutions based on real-world executive needs, advance his academic research on health data architecture and lead public discourse on the intersection of AI and care delivery.

Dr Ferris brings a unique global perspective to InterSystems. His career spans 30 years as a practicing primary care physician, executive leadership at prestigious U.S. health systems, macro-level technology governance for the U.K. government and incubating AI health-tech startups.

“Tim Ferris has treated patients as a frontline physician, overseen thousands of physicians at one of the most respected hospital systems in the world, directed national health policy in the U.K. and incubated cutting-edge AI startups,” said Don Woodlock, President of InterSystems. “These experiences make him the perfect leader to help architect technology solutions that truly work for every stakeholder in the healthcare ecosystem.”

Most recently, Dr Ferris served as president of healthcare at Red Cell Partners, a technology incubator and investment firm. Previously, as the national director of transformation at England’s National Health Service (NHS), he managed a US$2.5 billion budget and led the acceleration of frontline digitisation. This included expanding the NHS App to serve more than 40 million citizens, migrating national data services to the cloud and facilitating data agreements with leading global tech and biotech companies.

Dr Ferris also served as CEO and chair of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization and senior vice president for population health at Mass General Brigham. In those roles, he oversaw 3,000 physicians and led an accountable care organisation that achieved top national performance on quality metrics while generating over US$1 billion in cumulative cost savings for taxpayers.

A recognised leader in health IT and a Harvard-trained physician, Dr Ferris became a professor of medicine at Harvard University in 2018. He has authored more than 120 publications on quality measurement, health information technology and population health, and currently serves in an advisory role for Stanford University.

Source: InterSystems media release

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