Amicas promotes Lefeber to VP

AMICAS Inc. has promoted Glen Lefeber to vice president of Financial Products and Implementation Engineering, effective immediately. In this new role, Lefeber is responsible for managing the direction of the Vision Series Financials product line, as well as RIS/PACS implementation resources such as data conversions, hospital interfaces, EDI transactions, ADT, dictation and all related customer support functions, Amicas said.

In his new role, Lefeber reports directly to President and CEO Peter McClennen.

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