SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2024 – Apella, a health technology company, today announced the addition of Kevin Sowers, president of the Johns Hopkins Health System and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to their Board of Directors.
Sowers has spent decades working in health care, beginning his career as a nurse in the oncology department at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC. He spent 32 years with the Duke University Health System, serving as president and CEO of Duke University Hospital for the final eight years of his tenure. Joining Hopkins in 2017, Sowers is only the second person in Hopkins history to hold the two executive roles with the medical school and the health system, overseeing the system’s six hospitals.
“I am really excited to join the Apella Board at this time of growth. Throughout my nearly 40 years in health care, I have seen firsthand extraordinary advancements in care and service delivery supported by robust data collection and cutting-edge technologies,” Sowers said. “Health care leaders have known that AI is coming to the hospital, and Apella has developed a technology that has a real impact today. Apella’s solutions allow health care workers to prioritize spending time tending to patients over entering data.”
Powered by ambient sensor technology and artificial intelligence, Apella provides new data and insights in real time to help surgical teams analyze the past, manage the present, and plan for the future. This increased efficiency directly allows for increased surgical volume and improves the quality of surgical services.
“I am thrilled to work with Kevin. Over his tenure at Duke and now at Johns Hopkins, he has seen the challenges facing surgical teams from the very top,” said David Schummers, CEO of Apella. “He brings a unique perspective on the issues facing healthcare and the insights needed to improve the surgical and operational processes that reverberate through the entire health system, not just the OR. His guidance will be crucial as we pursue our mission of making operating rooms work better.”