About Us
Recombinant offers healthcare providers and academic medical centers proven data warehousing and clinical intelligence solutions to deliver higher quality outcomes, accelerate research discoveries and lower costs. Our team of industry veterans is focused on improving the flow of reliable data to power clinical reports and research applications in a secure, compliant environment.
Our core values of pragmatism, effective communication, and trust allow us to develop tailored clinical solutions and services to meet the specific needs of our clients.
Our Background
In 1999 members of the Recombinant team began working on the Research Patient Data Registry (RPDR) at Partners HealthCare,
one of the nation’s leading integrated healthcare systems. This work allowed us to take our data warehousing expertise and
apply it in the clinical research context. Over time, the RPDR served as the model for what is now the NIH’s i2b2 open source workbench,
which Recombinant continues to support.
In 2004 the Quality Data Management (QDM) team led by Dr. Jonathan Einbinder at Partners HealthCare engaged Recombinant to build a solution to meet the needs of enterprise reporting challenges across the delivery network. The resulting software included a data warehouse called the Quality Data Warehouse and a reporting system, called Report Central, designed to achieve the goals
of delivering consistent, high-quality patient care. The applications were built through collaboration between Partners Clinical and IT teams and Recombinant.
In December 2007 the groups entered into an agreement to make the custom software applications available for other hospitals and integrated delivery networks.
Through this agreement, Partners continues to use and expand the capabilities of the reporting systems while Recombinant has packaged the software and markets,
sells and supports the packaged offering at sites seeking to achieve similar patient care objectives.
Today, Recombinant offers an integrated suite of healthcare data warehousing and clinical intelligence products as well as consulting services to clinicians, researchers and CIOs.
Management Team
Peter Emerson, CEO
and Chief Privacy, Risk, and Compliance Officer
Peter brings more than 15 years
of executive leadership and operational experience to Recombinant, and
his background in governance and compliance provides a unique blend of
skills to Recombinant’s clients. Healthcare data warehousing
projects require specialized knowledge to ensure data is compliant,
secure and auditable. Peter’s legal training and expertise in
privacy and HIPAA issues ensures a high degree of trust around
Recombinant’s implementations.
Prior to joining Recombinant Peter served as Chief Operating Officer at
Visual i|o, a data visualization software company and VP of Product
Management at Open Pages, a leading governance, risk, and compliance
software company. Peter has been a general counsel and worked on
healthcare fraud issues in private practice. He has also held senior
positions in sales, marketing, business development and corporate
development at public and private software companies.
Peter is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, holds an MA from Oxford
University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Aaron Abend, Managing
Director – Data Warehousing
Aaron is
co-founder of Recombinant Data Corporation. He has been a leader in
data warehousing technology for over 20 years and launched Recombinant
to help apply this technology at hospitals to improve operations and
research new treatments. Through his work on research data
repositories Aaron has become a leading expert on implementation of the
open source i2b2 Workbench and research Hive.
Aaron’s technology experience began when he joined Metaphor
Computer Systems in 1984 where he helped develop the world's first true
data warehouse solution working with Ralph Kimball. In 1985, Aaron
launched Abend Associates, Inc. which provided data warehousing and
customer relationship management (CRM) software. Customers included
Chemical Bank, TIAA/CREF, and Procter & Gamble. In 1999, Aaron
entered the field of healthcare data warehousing. Since then he has
worked in major data warehousing projects, including the Research
Patient Data Registry (RPDR) project at the Laboratory of Computer
Science at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Quality Data
Warehouse for Partner's HealthCare Electronic Health Record (EHR)
system.
Aaron earned a BA at Middlebury College and an MBA from Columbia
University.
Dan Housman, Managing
Director – Analytical Applications
Dan is a software veteran with a proven track record of providing
reliable decision support systems to the enterprise. Dan has delivered
web-based analytical applications for healthcare providers including
quality dashboards, disease management reports, compensation incentive
metrics, and analysis of publicly reported measures. Prior to
co-founding Recombinant Data, Dan was responsible for founding and
building ChannelWave, a company that pioneered PRM (Partner
Relationship Management) and ecommerce applications. His founding
vision and leadership helped to establish a business with over $15M in
annual sales providing solutions to help enterprise clients including
Verizon, RIM/Blackberry, Arrow Electronics, and Hyundai to optimize
their demand chain.
Dan earned a BS in Chemistry and Biology from MIT in 1995 and is an
active member of HDWA (Healthcare Data Warehousing Association) and
AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association).
Bruce D. Johnson, Managing
Director – Data Architecture, Strategy, and Governance
Bruce joined Recombinant data in December of 2007 to provide clients
with strategic advice on data architecture, warehousing, and data
governance. Bruce brings 20 years of experience as an IT professional
and has been involved with large scale data warehousing projects in
many industries including Healthcare, Finance, Transportation, Retail,
and Travel.
Prior to joining Recombinant, Bruce led the definition and
establishment of the Mayo Clinic Life Sciences Systems and Enterprise
Data Trust data warehouses. These efforts required building support and
trust of executive & medical leaders, defining enterprise meta
data, data governance, and an enterprise data model as well as
establishing the staffing, tools, processes, and approaches required to
ensure success. Bruce also has experience in decision support/business
intelligence, application architecture, business analysis, and software
vendor selection.
Bruce earned a BS in Computer Science in 1986 at DeVry Institute of
Technology in Columbus, Ohio and is a monthly columnist for the
Enterprise Information Management Institute. Copies of his articles can
be found at EIMInstitute.org.
Shelley Orenstein – Chief
Operating Officer
Shelley is a seasoned business executive who has overseen
Recombinant’s growth from day one. She has been involved in
every aspect of Recombinant’s business and understands the
mission critical issues facing hospitals and large academic medical
centers. In her role as Chief Operating Officer Shelley manages
day-to-day operations for the company and coordinates strategic
partnerships.
Prior to joining Recombinant Shelley was CEO of CallBack Software, a
customer relationship management company, growing sales revenues by 50%
and leading it to three of its most profitable years.
Shelley earned a BA in Economics at the University of Vermont.
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