Orbita Brings in New Vice President of Strategy

BOSTON (September 27, 2018)—Orbita, Inc., which provides an enterprise-grade conversational platform for powering HIPAA-compliant voice and chatbot applications, announced the appointment of Kristi Ebong as senior vice president of strategy and general manager for health care providers.

Ebong the former head of emerging technology at Cedars-Sinai, will use her understanding of the upside potential for conversational interfaces to guide Orbita’s overall strategy with health care providers.

“Kristi’s experience in leading efforts to adopt and scale new technologies across a health system will be invaluable to Orbita,” said Bill Rogers, Orbita CEO. “Voice and artificial intelligence are well poised to overcome the challenges of existing technology infrastructure across the healthcare delivery systems and beyond. We’re confident she will help guide our customers in the provider sector to achieve success as they move forward with voice initiatives.”

Orbita Voice is being used across clinical, consumer and business applications including care management, clinical trials, member wellness, customer service and more.

“Orbita’s smart enterprise platform enables organizations to engage in unprecedented ways – with patients, consumer, clinicians, employees and beyond,” Ebong said. “I am energized by the opportunity to advance the use of voice and artificial intelligence to empower healthier patients and happier providers.”

Orbita’s addition of Ebong to its leadership team reflects the company’s continued momentum among health care systems and other provider organizations including a long-standing relationship with Mayo Clinic. Earlier this month, Orbita was invited to demonstrate its technology at the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub’s five-year anniversary celebration of digital health innovation in hospitals. There, voters chose Orbita for the Brigham iHub’s “Most Likely to be a Unicorn” award.

Prior to joining Orbita, Ebong was responsible for leading Cedars-Sinai’s emerging technology strategy and launching the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator where she evaluated more than 3,000 startups. Previously, she evaluated and led innovation pilots at Stanford Healthcare and drove thought leadership for Healthspottr’s network of health care deal-makers. Ebong comes from deep roots in health tech, starting her career at Epic Systems. She served under the Obama Administration in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, and has worked with large health care providers, startups and foundations.

Ebong has master’s degrees in Public Health and Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University, and bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Global Security from The University of Wisconsin.

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