About Us
Bruce Fryer, CEO
“If it hasn’t been done, then it’s worth doing.”
ProtoHIT is my fifth start-up and my second working with UNM (University of New Mexico). I’ve also served as Interim COO at NuView Life Sciences, a life sciences company with an option to license pancreatic cancer, leukemia and lymphoma technologies at UNM’s Health Sciences Center. I hold a B.S. from Iowa State University and an M.B.A. from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University focused on Decision Support Systems.
After being a plant safety and quality engineer at US Gypsum, my life in high tech started in 1983 when I installed my first LAN at Baxter Healthcare. It was then I realized engineers were developing products which they thought were cool, but weren’t all that relevant to the actual users. So I spent eight years working with companies like Compaq, Microsoft, IBM and Lotus to make sure they built products for our use at Baxter. Next was product management at Zenith Data Systems. Here, we conceived and delivered the first network appliance, which won a product-of-the-year award in five countries. Novell then asked me to move to Utah and help them with their high level product strategies. I did over $110M in deals over a few years, starting BEA systems, and interesting technology deals with Intel and others.
The next logical steps were start-ups, so for the last nine years I have done four start-up companies ranging from secure Java-based email products to visioning software for automotive robots. During this period, I was in publications such as Time, Forbes, Business Week, ZDNet, Linux Journal and Managing Automation. I’ve also authored a book on email and co-authored a networking book back in the day.
Protohit is my chance to improve the health care system, providing software as a service that is a win for everyone involved – the healthcare provider, the employer, and the patient.
Bruce also serves on the Clinical Decision Support task force under the Patient Safety and Quality Outcome Steering Committee of HIMSS.
Dr. Phil Wagner, Chief Medical Officer
“If I make a nickel or a million dollars, it doesn’t matter to me. This will save people from suffering and save money at the same time. That makes me a happy camper.”
Dr Wagner is a graduate of UCSF, having received the Legge Award for original research in Occupational Medicine in 1974. He is considered a pioneer in the field of quality measurement and electronic data connectivity between employer, carrier, and provider, having developed the first prospective protocol system to define and monitor quality in health care delivery. He is board certified in Occupational Medicine, and Family Practice. In July 1998, Dr Wagner was appointed to the staff of UCSF as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He has toured as a lecturer for the State of California Industrial Medical Council on the role of the Primary Treating Physician in worker’s compensation.
Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the UNM School of Medicine.
Our investors include:
Kickstart Seed Fund (Vspring)
New Mexico Community Capital
Member of New Mexico Biotechnology & Biomedical Association and HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management & Systems Society