Atirix moves Scott to VP sales

Edward Scott has been promoted to vice president of sales at Atirix Medical Systems.

Scott came to Atirix from Provox Technologies, a speech recognition systems company acquired by Atirix in May.

Scott has worked for 16 years in healthcare sales. While at Provox, he was a regional sales director and was the sales leader. He also worked in sales with the Dictaphone, division of Nuance, as well as with MDProductivity, a speech technologies company acquired by 3M Healthcare.

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