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Spok Appoints Bobbie Byrne, M.D. to Board of Directors
Industry Veteran Has Substantial Experience in Healthcare IT SPRINGFIELD, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK), a global leader in
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nIndustry Veteran Has Substantial Experience in Healthcare IT\n\n SPRINGFIELD, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nSpok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK), a global leader in healthcare communications, today announced that effective immediately, it has appointed Dr. Bobbie Byrne, Chief Information Officer at Advocate Aurora Health, to its Board of Directors. Illinois-based Advocate Aurora Health is a twenty-eight-hospital system serving both Illinois and Wisconsin. At Advocate Aurora Health, Dr. Byrne is responsible for all information technology applications, information security, infrastructure, clinical informatics, data warehousing and business intelligence across the entire system. She has led all technical initiatives around the merger between Advocate and Aurora, including a single patient record and system integration.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200121005267/en/Spok Appoints Bobbie Byrne, M.D. to Board of Directors (Photo: Business Wire).\n\n“We are excited to have Bobbie join our board,” said Vincent D. Kelly, chief executive officer. “She is a leader in Healthcare IT and will make meaningful and immediate contributions as we continue to introduce our new, innovative, cloud-native and integrated communication platform, Spok Go®. Bobbie understands our value proposition, market and customers, and will have invaluable insights as we develop our software as a service (SaaS) platform to drive and extend Spok’s market leadership.”\n\n\nKelly also announced that Dr. Byrne will serve on the newly formed Cybersecurity Committee of the Board of Directors. The primary duties of the Cybersecurity Committee will be to enhance the board’s understanding and oversight of the policies, controls and procedures that Spok management has put in place to identify, manage and mitigate risks related to cybersecurity, privacy and disaster recovery. The committee will be chaired by current Director Stacia A. Hylton. Dr. Byrne will serve on this committee with current Director N. Blair Butterfield.\n\n\n“I believe that Spok’s strategy is exactly aligned with the needs of healthcare organizations and I am excited to help the company achieve its full potential,” said Dr. Byrne. “For two decades I have assisted leading healthcare organizations implement technology solutions to impro...