Earle Rugg
Earle has over thirty years experience managing emerging technology companies. As co-founder of RHITC, he serves both as CEO and heads up Marketing/Business Development. For more than 20 years, he has worked in healthcare information technology.
Earle was a co-founder of Payer Technologies, which manages ITS/BlueCard transactions In that role, Earle was key to developing a new contract for Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield with the Taft-Hartley Plans there.
Earle has extensive grant experience, including two AHRQ grants to build the Mt Ascutney/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health Information Exchange (HIE) in Vermont and New Hampshire, one of the first multi-state HIEs in the US. Likewise, he helped the University of North Dakota win a HRSA Flex Network Grant for a HIE project there, and an HRSA Network Development Grant for the Transylvania Community Hospital Group HIE in North Carolina. Earle most recently served as COO for Missouri Health Connection.
Earle also serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU), Order of Malta, Hospitaller for State of Maine, the New England Council Healthcare Committee, New England Rural Health Roundtable, the HRSA/Rural Health Policy (ORHP) National HIT Conference Committee, and other HIE Development Committees and HIT Organizations. He is a graduate of Boston University and Suffolk University Law School.
Earle was recently named by Health Data Management as one of their EHR Game Changers of the Year.
