Julie Klapstein was the founding Chief Executive Officer of Availity, one of the nation’s largest health information networks optimizing the automated delivery of critical business and clinical information among healthcare stakeholders. Ms. Klapstein was the CEO and board member of Availity for 11 years. Ms. Klapstein’s 30+ years of experience in the healthcare information technology industry include executive roles at Phycom, as CEO, Sunquest Information Systems (EVP); SMS’ Turnkey Systems Division (now Siemens Medical Systems) and GTE Health Systems.

Ms. Klapstein currently serves on the board of directors of Revecore, focusing on complex claims in hospital revenue cycle management; Amedisys, (AMED), focusing on home health, hospice and personal care; Nextgen (NXGN), focusing on revenue cycle management and electronic medical records for provider practices; Oak Street Health (OSH), a value based health system focusing on Medicare patients and MultiPlan (MPLN) focusing on health cost management solutions for the health insurance industry. Ms. Klapstein was a past director for two public boards and multiple private boards including eSolutions, a revenue cycle management company which had a highly successful exit October 2020.

Ms. Klapstein earned her bachelor’s degree from Portland State University.