Biography - Rick Ratliff

Rick Ratliff
Acting Chief Executive Officer
SureScripts

Mr. Ratliff is the acting president and CEO of SureScripts. His over 20 years of leadership experience in technology includes management positions at IBM, VHA Inc. and HEALTHvision, Inc. For most of his career, Mr. Ratliff has been a leader in the strategic use of information technology in various healthcare environments with a particular focus on the electronic exchange of health information between a patient’s care providers.

Since November of 2002, when Mr. Ratliff joined SureScripts as the chief operating officer, he has led the effort to establish the national network for electronic prescribing called the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange™. Mr. Ratliff is leading community pharmacy’s efforts to transition from paper-based to paperless prescribing as a means of improving the quality, safety and efficiency of the prescribing process.

Prior to joining SureScripts, Mr. Ratliff was co-founder and senior vice president of HEALTHvision Inc. where he created the original business and strategic plan for the company’s clinical messaging business. His responsibilities included managing the company’s sales and marketing organization, as well as developing and implementing business plans for customer relationship management, eHealth consulting services and eCommerce business development.

Previously, Mr. Ratliff served as vice president, healthcare information technologies, for VHA, Inc. While at VHA, he managed the development and rollout of VHAseCURE.net, a nationwide private network designed as a Web-based health information utility for the VHA healthcare organizations across the United States.

He began his career two decades ago as a systems engineer at IBM Corporation and advanced through a succession of management positions with increasing responsibility, including leadership positions on IBM’s healthcare team as segment manager and client executive.