Welcome to this week’s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your shop, and we will feature it here at the end of each week. Surescripts Tom Skelton will be retiring from his position as CEO of Surescripts at the end of 2022, the e-prescribing company announced this week. Although he joined Surescripts back in 2014, Skelton has been an active participant in the healthcare technology space since 1994 when he joined Medic Computer Systems as vice president of research and development. The time in between had him taking on executive roles across a handful of other companies including Misys Healthcare Systems, Confluence Medical Systems, MED400 and Foundation Radiology Group. In the retirement announcement, Surescripts highlighted the launch of “some of its most innovative solutions” under Skelton’s leadership. Chief among these was the electronic health record-embedded Real-Time Prescription Benefit, which the company said now has more than 550,000 prescriber users. Skelton will be supporting the board over the coming year as it seeks out a replacement and has committed to working with the chosen candidate over a period of transition to ensure a clean handoff. Ochsner Health Denise Basow,…
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