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Karen Fleites

Zen needed a marketing leader who brings clarity, momentum, and positive energy to our marketing; we found it in Karen. With over 20 years of experience in healthcare and with globally recognized payers and technology companies, Karen builds brand authority and scalable demand engines that accelerate growth. At Zen, Karen shapes the company’s market narrative by leveraging Zen’s thought leadership and deep knowledge in healthcare interoperability.

Jerome Chen

With over a decade of engineering and client services expertise, Jerome leads a dedicated team of healthcare interoperability engineers and interface developers. His expertise lies in bridging the gap between healthcare systems, ensuring seamless data exchange, and driving innovation in the field of medical data interoperability.

Derek Wayland, CISSP

CISSP certified, Derek brings a security first approach to his role as Vice President of IT & Security for Zen. He brings more than 15 years of IT & Security expertise, focusing on healthcare interoperability. Derek plays a key role in building and designing Zen’s modern scalable hosted solutions while achieving and maintaining Zen’s HITRUST CSF r2 certification for the Gemini Platform.

Michael Bedell

With degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder in operations and information management, Michael has shared joint responsibility with the CEO for the company’s financial and operational performance. As one of Zen’s first employees, he is passionate about creating a culture that upholds Zen’s key principles, and active in developing the guidelines and policies that will continue to enable Zen’s success as a market-leading interoperability platform.

Marilee Benson

Bringing boundless of positive energy to everything she takes on, Marilee is passionate about leveraging technology to improve the lives of and health outcomes for patients. Marilee has 30+ years of experience in the healthcare information technology sector. She plays an active leadership role in the healthcare interoperability community, currently serving on the Carequality Advisory Board. This industry expertise is invaluable for Zen clients seeking to keep up with a complex set of interoperability requirements.

Jim Benson

Jim has a passion for helping people solve challenging problems in healthcare technology, and a talent for building mission oriented teams with hard to find subject matter expertise. Jim’s achievement portfolio is nothing short of impressive with 30+ years of entrepreneurship, financial, and executive experience. Jim’s leadership ensures the Zen Team is laser focused on positive outcomes; both for clients and employees.

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CircEld Partners with Zen Healthcare IT to Expand EMR, EHR, and FHIR Connectivity

[Mount Laurel, NJ] — [September 11, 2026] — CircEld, the connected senior-care platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Zen Healthcare IT to expand CircEld’s healthcare interoperability and systems-integration capabilities.

Under the partnership, Zen Healthcare IT serves as CircEld’s healthcare integration partner, providing the expertise and technical foundation needed to connect the CircEld Platform with electronic medical record and electronic health record systems, healthcare provider platforms, health information exchanges, laboratories, payer systems, community-service networks, and other healthcare technologies.

The partnership brings together CircEld’s senior-care coordination platform and Zen’s healthcare interoperability expertise to create a more connected experience for older adults, families, caregivers, care organizations, healthcare providers, and community partners.

“The senior-care ecosystem has operated through disconnected systems and fragmented information for far too long,” said Ramesh Sridharan, Founder of CircEld and CEO of HealthElence. “CircEld is creating a connected platform where older adults, families, caregivers, healthcare providers, and care organizations can work from a clearer and more complete picture of care. Zen’s healthcare integration expertise strengthens our ability to connect CircEld with the systems our partners already use and deliver a more coordinated, informed, and effective care experience.”

Zen supports CircEld with integration architecture, interface development, secure API connectivity, healthcare-data transformation, implementation services, integration monitoring, and ongoing interface management. The partnership supports standards and technologies including FHIR, HL7, C-CDA, JSON, secure APIs, and other healthcare-data exchange formats.

These capabilities enable CircEld to connect clinical, operational, and community-care information across the organizations involved in supporting an older adult. They also reduce dependence on manual processes, duplicate data entry, disconnected communications, and point-to-point integrations that are difficult to maintain and scale.

“Effective senior care depends on information moving securely and reliably across the systems and organizations that support each individual,” said Marilee Benson, President and Cofounder of Zen Healthcare IT. “CircEld brings older adults, families, caregivers, and care organizations together through a thoughtful and highly relevant platform. Zen is proud to provide the interoperability expertise that connects CircEld with the broader healthcare ecosystem and helps transform fragmented information into coordinated, actionable care.”

The partnership strengthens CircEld’s ability to support organizations operating across clinical care, senior services, aging services, dementia care, community-based programs, and family caregiving.

“Interoperability is not simply a technical requirement for CircEld—it is fundamental to our vision for connected senior care,” Sridharan added. “Our partnership with Zen gives CircEld the depth, experience, and integration foundation required to serve organizations across the healthcare and aging-services ecosystem.”

About CircEld

CircEld, developed by HealthElence, Inc. is a connected senior-care platform designed to bring older adults, families, caregivers, care teams, healthcare providers, and service organizations into one coordinated care experience.

The CircEld Platform supports everyday care activities such as medication routines, appointments, family communication, care planning, caregiver coordination, health tracking, referrals, community-service access, and organizational collaboration.

Through mobile applications, web-based tools, voice-enabled assistance, and healthcare-system integrations, CircEld helps reduce fragmentation and gives everyone involved in an older adult’s care a clearer way to stay informed, connected, and engaged.

Learn more: https://www.circeld.com/

About Zen Healthcare IT

Zen Healthcare IT specializes in healthcare interoperability and data integration. Zen helps digital-health companies, healthcare providers, hospitals, health information exchanges, payers, and other healthcare organizations securely connect applications, clinical systems, and healthcare-data networks.

Zen provides healthcare-integration infrastructure, managed integration services, secure APIs, legacy-system connectivity, standards-based data transformation, interface monitoring, and implementation support.

Learn more: https://www.zenhealthcareit.com/

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