Karagin joined Opus Healthcare Solutions after serving as a sales executive for T-System, Dallas and Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO. Karagin has also held sales positions at HealthSouth and Sorin Biomedical. Karagin holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University Bloomington.

Fred Beck, president and co-founder of Opus Healthcare Solutions, noted “Brad’s knowledge of the hospital IT market will help us expand our national presence. As one of the few major health IT vendors with a web-based architecture, we are a true technological leader. In addition, we now serve 10,000 clinicians at some 30 different facilities, a substantial base. Brad’s leadership at the head of an expanded sales force will help us capitalize on these leadership positions.”

The company’s roster of products features the OpusClinicalSuite® which includes systems for clinical documentation, order management, computerized physician order entry, medication administration, Web portals for remote physician access, and laboratory workflow.

The OpusClinicalSuite® is one of the few Web-based, vs. simply web-enabled, clinical information systems available. Because it uses an integrated HL7/XML interface engine to collect disparate clinical data from other systems in the facility, the Opus solution provides a single point-of-access for clinicians to retrieve all patient clinical information from one application, rather than having to jump between different applications or access points.

Founded in 1987 and based in Austin, Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc. has been named one of the top 25 software developers in the region by the Austin Business Journal for the past five years. The company’s systems are used by a number of major hospitals including the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. and the South Texas Health Systems (five hospitals, 1,200 beds). For more information, www.opushealthcare.com