Access Innovations is proud to announce John Kuranz as chief executive officer of its newest endeavor, Access Integrity — which applies Access Innovations’ award-winning Data Harmony software suite to the medical coding and billing industries.
“We’re thrilled to have someone of John’s caliber heading this effort,” says Marjorie M.K. Hlava, co-founder (along with Kuranz) of Access Integrity. “This technology transfer from electronic publishing to medical claims compliance using ICD Tagger institutes a disruptive innovation within a new industry. The rule-based approach with very high accuracy ensures productive, efficient, and cost-effective coding assistance throughout the medical billing and transaction sphere.”
Kuranz brings more than 30 years of experience in electronic publishing and internet applications in research and content creation to the Access Integrity team. Most recently, Kuranz spent three years as managing director of Dallas, Texas-based Chemical Information Services, a B2B subscription-based chemical database firm.
Prior to joining Access Integrity, Kuranz was also executive vice president of global business strategy at Herndon, Va.-based Apex CoVantage, an outsourcing company with more than 3,500 employees worldwide. In this role, Kuranz was instrumental in positioning the company as a leader in providing knowledge-based solutions to the information and publishing industry.
“I’m excited and motivated with business start-ups such as Access Integrity,” says Kuranz. “Each new business endeavor provides a unique set of challenges, but Access Integrity is a unique start-up in that it applies the time-tested technology of Data Harmony to an emerging industry in the medical coding and billing realm.”
Kuranz has a bachelor of science degree in biochemistry from Texas A&M University and did his MBA studies at Northern Illinois University. Kuranz and his wife, Karen, reside in Santa Fe, N.M.
About Access Integrity, Inc. – www.accessintegrity.com
Access Integrity provides a patented technology for complete and compliant EMR analysis. Access Integrity plays an important role in medical transaction processing by extracting rule-based relevant data (concept extractor) from medical records, increasing coding accuracy, clinical decision support, and overall understanding of a patient encounter. Access Integrity is the first company to employ Data Harmony’s semantic enrichment and rule-based concept extraction technology in the healthcare industry.
About Access Innovations, Inc. – www.accessinn.com, www.dataharmony.com, www.taxodiary.com
Founded in 1978, Access Innovations has extensive experience with Internet technology applications, master data management, database creation, thesaurus/taxonomy creation, and semantic integration. Access Innovations’ Data Harmony software includes automatic indexing, thesaurus management, an XML Intranet System (XIS), and metadata extraction for content creation developed to meet production environment needs. Data Harmony is used by publishers, governments, and corporate clients throughout the world. The award-winning and world-renowned Data Harmony software suite has been used in the content management and information technology industries for more than 15 years.
