K. Thomas "KT" Pickard is an American executive entrepreneur working in the field of medical imaging and health IT.
K. Thomas "KT" Pickard | |
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Nationality | American |
Citizenship | United States |
Occupation(s) | Medical imaging, Health IT |
Pickard worked on bioinformatics and machine learning applications at supercomputer companies Thinking Machines Corporation and MasPar prior to moving to medical imaging in 1996.[1]
Pickard worked at UltraVisual Medical Systems in the early 2000s, and after that joined PACSGEAR, which was acquired by Lexmark in 2013.[1][2]
From 2015 to 2017 he was CEO of WITS(MD) (which changed its name to ImageMoverMD shortly after he joined) and moved from San Francisco to Wisconsin.[3] In 2018, he returned to San Francisco and joined Philips. In 2021, he joined Amazon Web Services and moved to Seattle.[4]
He has a daughter with autism, and raised money via a crowdfunding campaign on Experiment.com to have her genome sequenced.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b "K. Thomas Pickard: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ Engel, Jeff (July 30, 2015). "WITS(MD) Raises $1.6M to Securely Share Medical Images on Smartphones". Xconomy.
- ^ Buchanan, Jeff (10 June 2016). "ImageMoverMD Helps Clinicians, Patients Transmit Photos Securely". Xconomy.
- ^ "K. Thomas Pickard". LinkedIn. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ Heger, Monica (August 4, 2015). "With Insurers Reluctant to Pay for Genomic Testing, Some Patients Turning to Crowdfunding". GenomeWeb.