CONNECT recognized as one of Colorado’s Best Companies for Working Families by Colorado Parent Magazine

Cindi Cordova, Recruiter for CONNECT: The Knowledge Network attended the Colorado Medical Society Technology Fair.

Blackford Middleton was the keynote speaker at the fair. Dr. Middleton is the Chair of the Center for Information Technology Leadership, Partners Healthcare System, Inc., and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Barbara Drury of Pricare Inc. has over 20 years consulting experience to medical offices and is a well-known speaker and consultant.

Pictured above is Blackford Middleton (left) with Colorado HIMSS members Cindi Cordova, and Barbara Drury (to the right).

The CMS Tech Fair showed medical office personnel what tools are available, how to pick the tools appropriate for their offices, how the tools will improve their practices, and how these technologies are being used in other medical practices. Break-out sessions included topics such as Electronic Medical Records and Practice Management Systems. The sessions also included methodologies to evaluate these packages and actual implementation case studies. This conference was sponsored by HIMSS and a booth was staffed by CHIMSS members for the purpose of introducing these individual physicians’ offices to the services provided by HIMSS/CHIMSS.

CONNECT’s sales and recruiting team participated recently in a seminar hosted by Inmon Data Systems (IDS).

Bill Inmon, a long-time business associate and friend of CONNECT’s and a well-known published author in the world of Data Warehousing, hosted the event. IDS introduced new offerings to the large audience gathered. Pictured is CONNECT CEO Maureen Clarry and Bill Inmon of IDS.

Mike Taylor, Managing Editor
ColoradoBiz magazine

(Exerpts from May 2005 Issue)

. . . CONNECT: The Knowledge Network, an IT consultant [firm] based in Littleton, improved revenues by 149 percent last year . . .

Maureen Clarry, CEO and founder of CONNECT: The Knowledge Network Corp., has seen ups and downs in the tech sector during the 13 years she’s headed her own company, and perhaps that’s why she sounds more pleased than surprised that CONNECT more than doubled revenues in 2004, with sales of $10.7 million.

“Sometimes the technology sector is the fatest declining and the fastest growing,” Clarry says. “2000-2001 was the down period. I think now there’s been a pent-up demand to get a lot of work done that hadn’t been done when people where in kind of a conservative holding pattern. There’s just more demand for the kind of services that we offer.”

Tech-service providers like Clarry’s made dramatic moves upward in this year’s women’s ranking, and, overall, 27 newcomers made the top 100 but companies at the very top of the rankings didn’t budge . . .