Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 12, 2001
JIM MCCORD is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fast Track
Systems, Inc. He has built healthcare information companies since the
early 1970s. In 1974, he founded and served as CEO of SysteMetrics,
Inc., one of the first 'outcomes research' companies, which was acquired
by McGraw Hill in 1982. From 1986 to 1994, he was founder and CEO of
Decision Support Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shared Medical
Systems, which conducted research using healthcare transaction data and
provided software and services to US and European hospitals. From 1994
to 1999, he was CEO of Oacis Healthcare Systems, a leading supplier of
advanced real-time clinical information systems for large provider
organizations. The company went public in 1996 and was acquired by
Science Applications International in March of 1999. Mr. McCord earned a
BA in Economics from Antioch College (1964) and an MA in Economics and
Operations Research from U.C. Berkeley in 1966. He has consulted for a
variety of organizations including DHHS and the Institute of Medicine,
and has served on the Board of the International Clinical Epidemiology
Network. Profile
Mr. McCord: Fast Track's mission is to reduce the time and cost of human
clinical trials. The process of getting a drug to market is
